Crazy for You
Selected by Christopher Miles, 65 minutes

This program offers a selection of works in which artists explore both serious and funny aspects of the fabrication, fragmentation and multiplication of personal identity and space. The idea of self is positioned in a web of links and cross-references between the physical, the psychological, the virtual, the dramatic and the contextual aspects of experience.

PROGRAM:

DNI by Jerome Lu,
4:30 minutes, Video
A comical tale of a young man who, seeking companionship, clones himself.

Duplex by Gustavo Artigas,
6 minutes, Video, 2001
A video document of a project in which the artist enlisted a group of impostors to aid in delivering a short lecture about split personality.

Tina: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction #2
by Greg Kucera,
4 minutes, Video, 2001
A woman has the same telephone conversation multiple times in multiple places, all compressed into one continuous experience.

Copyshop by Virgil Wildrich,
12 minutes, 35 mm Film, 2001
An office worker photocopies himself and soon finds himself living in a world of duplicates.

Self Portrait #2 by Matthew Gebhart,
5 minutes, Video, 2001
An abstract self-portrait in which elements of the artists physiognomy divide and converge.

Rentre chez toi by Claudette Lemay,
2:40 minutes, Video, 2001
A meditation on the boundary between internal and external influences upon the individual.

Living by Greg Kucera,
10 minutes, Video, 2001
Multiple versions of the same man live together in a house.

With Me by Kerstin Cmelka,
3 minutes, 16 mm Film, 2000
A woman makes love with her own image.

Strange Ships by Mark O'Connell,
3 minutes, Video
A number of oddly similar anonymous men cross paths in a corridor.

Headshot by Shana Torok,
3:20 minutes, Video, 2002
A young woman interprets the nuances of working with a photographer to create her headshot.

Running by Maryam Jafri,
5 minutes, Video
The same individual adopts multiple characters in the reading of a narrative.

Exposure by Dwayne Moser,
21 minutes, Video, 2000
A young man reflects on his life and ideas using a string of quotations borrowed from other people.