Video Catalogue
Josephson has created a distillation of womanhood in Hedda, a character both guided by and at the mercy of her emotions. She uses emotion with naïve abandon, ‘as if riding a horse, a locomotive or an ocean wave.’ The Hedda videos are set in a house in Normandy, France, on or around an elegant, well-mannered… ⊕
Two Vivisectors from the Department of Truth discover the meaning in Art.A video that can be defined as part of The Third Cinema – neither consumer goods nor avant-garde, or an experiment. In the 1930s this kind of art form/film/cultural expression was seen as an instrument of revolutionary consciousness, whose products… ⊕
2001, 03:26 minutes, colour
tapecode 645.05
An Axe, a Bench, a Basement, a Crash, a Bang, a Smash...
A 1:00 silent , black/white video alluding to androgyny or refuting heterosexuality and the stereotypes it engenders. Found footage and digital video technology is used to edit a perplexed face (Liv Ullman) caught between two archetypal images (Adam and Eve?) into one fast, frenzied, morphed image, that could be a Rorschack… ⊕
2009, 48:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 645.23
Specializing in performing New Music and works by contemporary composers, Eve Egoyan is a powerful and commanding performer. In E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, Josephson captures Egoyan's intensity as she performs a 5-hour epic for piano, the 12 part "Inner Cities" by composer Alvin Curran. The piano and the… ⊕