Bill Domonkos

07.10.09
bdom.com Bill Domonkos is an American artist who experiments with computer animation, archival footage and live action. On the site you can watch a selection of Domonkos’s works, including excerpts from music videos Domonkos created for the avant-garde music/art group The Residents. The works are exquisitely ethereal, summoning sinister new worlds out of images of the past.
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Laurie Hill

15.09.09
Laurie Hill APEngine spoke with Laurie Hill about his moving image work, including his award-winning film Photograph of Jesus, which explores the archive of Getty Images. Laurie Hill is a London-based artist. He studied Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and Animation at the Royal College of Art, London. Laurie was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007. In 2008, he was a Finalist ...
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Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill

15.09.09
Photograph of Jesus, image courtesy of Getty Images Photograph of Jesus is Laurie Hill’s response to a challenge set by Getty Images, who invited filmmakers to create a piece utilising images from their Hulton Archive. Rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers’ creativity. Examples of these prompters included ‘discover our past,’ ‘images that shape ...
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Duncan Campbell

10.09.09
Bernadette, Duncan Campbell, image courtesy of LUX Duncan Campbell’s films are documentaries, but documentaries that test the boundaries of the form, acknowledging, in Campbell’s words, that ‘documentary is a peculiar form of fiction.’  Using archival material – images of bygone youth culture and urban decay in Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) and footage of dissident and Activist Bernadette Devlin in Bernadette (2008) – Campbell attempts to ...
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Vicki Bennett/People Like Us

09.09.09
Vicki Bennett APEngine spoke with Vicki Bennett otherwise known as People Like Us about her work, including her recent commission for The Great North Run. Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio ...
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Work, Rest & Play by Vicki Bennett

09.09.09
Work, Rest & Play, image courtesy of Vicki Bennett Commissioned by Lovebytes in collaboration with Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Vicki Bennett’s Work, Rest & Play is a captivating video triptych exploring the themes of labour and leisure, industriousness and stillness. The film has been carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975 to follow the endless chug of the conveyor belt of life. Formatted ...
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The Control Master by Run Wrake

08.09.09
The Control Master, image courtesy of Run Wrake The Control Master is the latest short film from BAFTA nominated animation director Run Wrake. Commissioned by Veer, the Canadian visual elements agency, to promote their Charles S Anderson collection. The film is animated using only images from this vast archive as source material and tells the story of a mysterious heroine and her unknown ally attempting to ...
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