SELECTED VIDEO TAPES 1980 – 2004

1980. THE MONTREAL MAID

Tracing the nude. Sexual conceptualism.

Montreal Performance:
Tap with running water: This is not Marat. This is not Marx. This is not Heidegger.
Fade out from the theatre of language and politics.
Waiting in Montreal: Waiting for the green light > Waiting for breakfast > Waiting for Alain/David.
Waiting for the telephone > Repeat sentence 5 times.
The photographic view does not follow straight lines.

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1980. THE SPINNING EYEBALL

The Olympic stadium, Montreal, as an eye without an eyeball.
The simple act of putting the finger in your own eye. Sisyphus on the track.

ROTATING EYES: Video Game
Smooth journey in corridors. Shouting across the stadium:
Video is Technology – breathless.
Video is the expression of the technological society.
Video can only be comprehended by a technological generation.
Video is the reflection of technological society.
Video has its own existence within the hierarch of technological society.
Life on the video monitor is technological life.
Video mystify life. Video removes responsibilities.

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1982. LET THOSE SLEEP WHO CAN

To tie a Solidarity tie and stay in the box. Tap, tap.
Hear me, hear me.
Politics and being, video and becoming.
Conceptual life, conceptual video.

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1982. TEMPORARY DISTURBANCE

Six political attitudes.

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1983 GüNTHER K/-CASE                                                                               24:00 mins.
A Lomholt / Elling production.

A Crime Cliché. Passion. Providence and Redemption.

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1983. ROTE MUND                                                                                         15:17 mins.

sHHH! – Art Readings.

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1984. B-FILM FOR MUSEUMS                                                                       33:40 mins.

Space and time in Museums. B-Film for Museums was produced as part of the exhibition EXOPHYLIA at the National Museum, Copenhagen 1984.

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1984. FINE HOUR FOR JOKERS                                                                   06:00 mins.

”The Lord, the Fly and the I as spectator.
(The elevator 1,50 X 1,50 X 2,30)
The neon exposes all there is to see.
The electronic images become brighter; up or down.
The fly is reflected and sits comfortably in its spacious soul.
The elevator is suspended.
Illuminated buttons, a choice?
1-2-3-4-5-help-emergency stop.

Video notes:
(A visit to the balcony)
Who enters my lift, the fly and a gentleman in a pin-striped suit.
Lets go together and practice things unconnected.
Joker text:
”I have my finest hour going up or down.”
”Come practice with me: I am, you are, he is.”
”I have no longer anything to confess.
An eventual confession will only occur in relations to the stage set.”
”Hi, I am the joker on the balcony.”

And the Sheik sings: ”Wait for me Dixi!”

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1986. A TASTE (THE DRIVER’S STORY)                                                        09:36 mins.

The Sunday Times:
As the trail opened in Torun last week of three policemen accused of murdering. Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, the pro-Solidarity priest. The Sunday Times obtained an interview with Popieluszko’s driver, who was with the priest on the night he died. The accused officers are Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski 33. Lieutenant Waldemar Chmielewski 29 and Lieutenant Lezek Pekala 32. The priest’s driver, Waldemar Chrostowski, will give evidence at the trail, and the story he has to tell is almost incredible.

This article is the starting point for the video A Taste (The Driver’s Story).

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