Everything Is Connected
Sight and Sound, Feb. 1995, no. 46, pp. 28-31
Article by Chris Darke on video artists Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic. "The dominant Anglo-American definitions of video-art tend to shuttle between 'performing the self' and 'surfing the simulacra'. Beban and Horvatic's work together barely corresponds to one or the other definition, and as a result they have regularly encountered the resistance of the highly parochial video-art community (which often expresses itself, defensively, in terms of debates on narrow specifics." Transcendentalism, aesthetics, mise-en-scene, media trance, politics, and exile.
ITEM 1995.093 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
She, Four Things (1986) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
All Our Secrets are Contained in an Image (1987) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Taking on a Name (1987) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Plan (1985) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Bless My Hands (1986) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
For You in Me and Me in Them to be One (1988) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Head (1993) – Cheryl Donegan
24 Hour Psycho (1993) – Douglas Gordon
Nostalgia (1983) – Vito Acconci
Lancelot du lac (1974) – Andrei Tarkovksy
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc – Robert Bresson
For Tara (1991) – Carl-Theodor Dreyer
The Lifeline Letter (1992) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
The Left Hand Should Know (1992) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Absence (1994) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Not Reconciled (1964) – Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic
Gertrud (1964) – Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
Geography (1989) – Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic