PART I

MEGAN SULLIVAN  NEW REVOLUTIONARY GHOSTS BY SANDY  (2006 )  5 MIN
This music video of the song New Revolutionary Ghosts by Megan Sullivan’s invented Berlin based band Sandy shows two persons dressed in greyish shirts hiding their identity and playing the song in a cliched rehearsal studio equipped with all the accessoires associated with the underground rough low key edited beginnings of a band. The artist turns her back to the viewer throughout, both protagonists are gender neutral.  The film has an awkwardly enigmatic atmosphere of understated performance, the slight movements hinting to a certain detached youth style.

AGNIESZKA BRZEZANSKA  SHORT MOVIES  (2006)  15 min
A compilation of short films mostly recorded in the artist home in Warsaw, these experimental documentaries are filmic anecdotes capturing the spontaneous, improvised performances of some recurring protagonists in everyday settings of a private apartment or shot out of a car window. The films portrait in a way a scene in Warsaw surrounding the artist, involved in various activities., taking in a detached dreamlike surreal and cartoony perspective towards an outside reality and the narration of the past, such as the drama of A Short History of the World  enacted in a kitchen sink..

BABETTE MANGOLTE  (NOW) OR MAINTENANT ENTRE PARENTHESES  (1976) 10 MIN
„A linear succession of activities / manipulations of objects.  Film = Now /  Projected Film = (Now)“
This short film is Mangolte’s second film shot in the 70s when the artist moved from Paris to NY and became the photopgraher and cinematographer of the performance art scene in NYC. Among many others Babette Mangolte worked with dance performers Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. Their new ideas of conceptual performance and object relations in dance informed Mangolte‘s own filmic aesthetic as much as the enigmatically anti-expressive styles of film director Robert Bresson and the structuralist realism of Chantal Akerman for whom she was director of photography. The style Mangolte developed in her films in the 70s is an unique fusion between NY conceptualism and the new French realist sensibility, processed through the artist’s strong intellectual sense of imagination. The actors in (Now), Linda Patton and James Barth, were performers in Yvonne Rainer‘s provocatingly new choreography. Babette Mangolte had worked already with Linda Patton and James Barth in her first film What Maisie Knew (1975) which used elements of minimal performance for an abstract narration based on Henry James‘ novel. What Maisie Knew  is on show at the Whitney Museum of American Art  March 11 /31 2007 in the program LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: ARTISTS’ FILMS FOR THE CINEMA curared by Chrissie Iles  and Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz.

PART II

HENRY COOMBES  LADDY AND THE LADY  (2005) 12 MIN
In Henry Coombes' film 'Laddy and the Lady', we follow the story of an out-of control golden retriever, Laddy, owned by a Lady, on a pheasant shoot. Scenes of the shoot are inter-cut with flashbacks to Laddy's troubled past as a puppy, wrenched from his mother's side. On  the shoot, Laddy is subjected to forms of physical and verbal abuse associated with gun dog handling. His inablility to behave and retrieve the dead birds results in relentless punishment. Laddy becomes a receiver - a golden receiver -  of abuse.  Born in London in 1977, Henry Coombes studied at London International Film School (1998-9) and the Glasgow School of Art (1999-2002). He is one of
six artists selected to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.

DUNCAN MARQUISS A NOTHNG WITH A VENGEANCE  (2006) 5 MIN
Duncan Marquiss makes drawings and films which are mesmerizing in their presence and enchanting
in their beauty, yet beneath them lies an altogether darker subtext. Marquiss often reverts to an iconography of the lycanthrope, the symbolic transformation of man into animal, and through it the becoming or return to a base and sublime state of raw drives and concerns. Marquiss will have a forthcoming solo show at The Changing Rooms, Stirling in 2007 and was a recent recipient of the Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Artists Film and Video Award. He lives and works in Glasgow and
is represented by Dicksmith Gallery, London.

CRAIG MULHOLLAND NIL ORALLY (2004)
Born in Glasgow in 1969, Mulholland completed his BA in Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 1991. Mulholland has exhibited regularly in group and solo shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. Craig Mulholland currently works with a complex configuration of media, including oil painting, meticulous digital animation and phantasmagorical tableaux. Recent installations have explored abbreviated connections between music and the visual arts, focusing in particular on the mythological interplay between American modernists and bluegrass guitar maestros. Recent