Threshold Studios commission Artists Moving Image shorts through a production bursary schemes funded by Arts Council England.  The Critical Mass DVD (see seperate listing) is our first collection of fourteen moving image works and includes avant garde and abstract works, poetry and dance.  

 

Critical Mass:Synaesthesia is the second collection of artists' moving image work featuring five multi-angle shorts and six further pieces plus a lot of hidden extras when you hit the random play button.

 

Critical Mass:Kinetica is due for release in january 2008

 

SAVE £5 Buy the first two Critical Mass DVDs together for £15 (see separate listing)

 

 

 

Chaos:fractals                                  Charles Stuart

 

Lights spiral out of an autumn darkness at Nottingham’s goose fair.  Order from chaos, harmony from discord.  The artist’s remit – simplify, reveal, portray.  Impressionism meets futurism at the speed of light – a symphony of colour.  Whistler would have approved.

 

 

Correlation 360                             Fi Burke

 

Do man’s visions last? 

Do man’s illusions last? 

All things pass

 

 

Sensorium                                       Owen Tooth & Ali Pow3rs

 

In the last moments of a life, human senses blur with those of the surrounding forest.  Death is the flowing of human senses out into the world beyond the flesh cage. Death is the final breath joining the endless journey of the night breeze.

 

 

Parallax 04                                       Su Ansell

 

A rail journey precipitates a meditation on family, its journey through time and the generations.

 

 

Coalescence                                  Tim Bassford

 

An everyday tale of love, misguided  apologies and synaesthesia.

 

 

Barking Blue Dog                              Kevin Moss

 

Things take a surreal turn in the interview room when the suspect’s recollection of events are coloured by his synaesthesia.

 

 

Collideoscope                               Barry Hale, Alistair Fruish, Peter Morris

 

A piece for vandalised piano created in memory of the distinguished concrete poet Bob Cobbing, featuring archive footage of Bob in performance with Hugh Metcalfe from 1993.

 

 

Synaesthesia: an insider’s view   Jo Johnson and Russell Richards

 

Jo, director of the Quay Arts gallery in the Isle of Wight, talks about the world through the eyes of a synaestheste.

 

 

Fragments                                                Jay Sioux

 

Abstracted forms from Jay Sioux’s video sketchbook

 

 

Prana                                                 Fi Burke

 

A meditation on light and shadow, body and landscape.

 

 

Landscape                                       Charles Stuart

 

Painting with light in motion

 

 

 

 

Threshold Studios aims to bring you a wide range of independent digital art, guerrilla shorts, avant garde classics and features from around the world.

 

Grassroots DV and film production has reached an unprecedented scale.  Festivals and informal club screenings reveal a groundswell of interest in alternatives to mainstream movies.  The form is changing, film and video, digital art crossing over boundaries into club visuals and art installations.  DVDs of independent movies and art film beyond the mainstream are now available online directly from the artists or from tiny labels dedicated to work from the edge.  The archive of work by past directors from the alternative histories of the cinema and the avant garde is now more accessible than ever it was before.  The work of contemporary guerrilla film makers is reaching wider audiences through their access to domestic DV cameras, computer editing and DVD authoring software.

 

In the past, Threshold Studios have produced CD ROMS and now DVDs of work by digital artists working in sound, single screen film and video, installation and on the web.  We have commissioned twenty two short films in the last 2 years, most of them are available here in our ebay shop.

 

We also aim to stock a growing range of interesting work by other people from all over the world.  We hope this work excites and inspires you.  We want to see an explosion of experimental work and new ideas from those in the margins of the art, film and TV industry.  Buying from us allows us to reinvest the money in further commissions, promote new talent and fresh visions on CD and DVD to the rest of the world.  We are always interested to hear from new directors and artists working in the experimental and avant garde.

 

 

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