Elaine Shemilt

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

Sebastian Barfield

Vic Reeves, Isaac Julien

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.

Doppelgänger

Elaine Shemilt

Doppelgänger is a video performance in which Shemilt manipulates her body and her image into creating a phantasmal double of herself.

Conflict

Elaine Shemilt

"This film was made in an effort to illustrate briefly the parody of life as a series of conflicts. For example the initial conflict between innocence and social convention, as seen in the confusion of a child. I have tried to project the subconscious conflict-contradiction-of life and inevitable death. Thus the film is in two movements as it were. In the first, a figure dressed in white to symbolise life, moves through and explores a series of structures and objects. In the second movement the figure is replaced by a figure in black, who wanders back through the wreckage of the structures. As death, she controls life until they write into nothingness." - Elaine Shemilt