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½ RIGHT

By David Finkelstein | November 2008

As in the other videos in this series, Martin is effectively turning his experience of distorted perception into a source of inspiration to create complex and beautiful composition of color, form and sound…

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½ RIGHT

"½ right" is one of a series of short videos Darrin Martin has made exploring his experience of lost and distorted hearing from ear damage. An inset...

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MONOGRAPH IN STEREO

In "Monograph in Stereo," Darrin Martin has used his own experience of hearing loss from a damaged eardrum (and the surgery which attempts to improve his...

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THE KNOCKING

A highly evocative and poetic collage of images and sounds, Darrin Martin's "The Knocking" immediately seems as if it is obliquely referring to the...

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AVIATOR

Darrin Martin's "Aviator" mixes found footage from educational and military propaganda films about aviation with original footage of two men in underwear,...

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WESTERN

On the soundtrack to Lili White's video "Western," filmmaker Margot Niederland tells a story of her trip to the occupied territories in Palestine. Warned...

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GOGOL BORDELLO NON STOP

I'm not going to lie; I went into "Gogol Bordello Non Stop" with a pre-existing respect and love for the band's music. I can't remember exactly where or...

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KANIZSA HILL

They come along every so often, and I just don't know what I'm supposed to make of them. Evelyn Lee's "Kanizsa Hill" is an animated experimental film about...

“ONE SERIOUS JOKE” ON EZRA STEAD

It's endlessly debated, and no matter what answers you seem to come up with, there always seems to be a paradoxical counter-view that makes you question it...

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IRIS SCAN (DVD)

The Index DVD label has provided a great service by making this collection of Mara Mattuschka's short films, spanning a period of 20 years, available to...

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BARSTOOL COWBOY

In the tradition of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Drugstore Cowboy" comes another film with the word “cowboy” in the title! I don’t mean to undermine this...

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