Talents, the Art Video Collection 1

The first opus in the collection offers a voyage using the senses. TALENTS has selected five of the top international cinematographers - from the different worlds of advertising, short film, and contemporary and graphic art. Metaphysics meets sensuality, moving and complex. From these shorts, each visually intense, emerges a poetic spirit, one that cannot leave the spectator intact. DANIEL ASKILL 1973 England We have decided not to die by Daniel Askill - 2003 / 11 A Brilliant Australian art, short film, and clip director (prize for the best australian videoclip at the mtv vmas in new-york in 2003), he works for pretigious groups (mtv, virgin, warner music) and is also his own producer (collider). We have decided not to die captures us in an unreal universe : death as a rite of passage leading to a form of trancendence... web : link CAMILLE HENROT 1975 France Hey Bonus by Camille Henrot - 2004 / 3 42 One of the most promising video director of her genaration (group exhibits at the national gallery of the jeu de paume, the museum of modern art, the cartier foundation and a personnal exhibit at the dominique fiat gallery in paris). This french graphic artist is known for her poetic and delicate style. Hey Bonus is a dreamy universe where six individuals awake at night fall, here the picture that she paints underscores the blur of the silhouettes and then create particles that float all around in an unreal atmosphere... This clip for Octet got the second Quartz prize. web : link GARY HILL 1967 Los Angeles Happenstance by Gary Hill -1982-1983 / 6 30 A precursor of art video in the 70 s, his work belongs to permanent collections of the most famous international museums :Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Guggenheim Museum in New-York... Gold Lion sculpture award at the biennale of venice, this linguistic artist, poet, researcher realizes installations, videos and performances unclassificable and complex.... Happenstance is a true esthethic and ethical success, a recreading of the word and its representation. web : link TIM WHITE SOBIESKI USA Terminal Heart by Tim White Sobieski - 2004 / 7 10 Internationnaly renowned (exhibits at the papesse palace in sienna, the art center in salamanca and the fine arts museum in santander), this newy-yorker is creating one of the largest video installations in october 2005 for louis Vuitton. Mixing abstraction to urban reality, Tim s universe is hypnotic... His series Terminal Dream , Terminal Night , Terminal Heart invites to daydream to the rythm of haunting music and sensual imagery through a passageway of intermingling emotions. web : link SABINE MASSENET 1972 France Transports Amoureux by Sabine Massenet - 2003 / 12 A parisian artist, Sabine Massenet was awarded the digital art grant from the scam in 2003 for 361° of hapiness . her work has been showed at the french film library, the nemo festival and the inventaire contemporain at the national gallery of the jeu de paume. Inspired by advertising and media, she examines texts and transforms them to emphasize the perverse poetic aspects of her recurrent theme: the portait. In transports amoureux voices pick out through classified ads in the transportation of the columns of the Liberation newspaper. This poetic and melancolic work based on an immaterial canvas speaks out of furtive meetings, human search of love and memory. one day glimpsed today disappeared ...