Monday, August 6, 2012

Video Work from 2007.



Someone Else’s Girlfriend

[2007]
Video, 1:40, Colour

 “Someone Else’s Girlfriend” features heavily doctored and retouched found footage of an unknown person’s ex-girlfriend walking about on a beach.

Shawna Dempsey, from the 2008 Video Pool Catalogue:

"Using found and reprocessed old film footage, Craig creates a wistful portrait of an unknown woman walking into the water. The soundtrack is a remix of Beach Boys Mike Love and Brian Wilson talking in the studio while working on the album Pet Sounds.The title, the use of degraded Super 8 imagery and the unadorned vulnerability of the human voice combine to elicit memories of summers gone by. Memory revisited, memory revised, memory lost."




A Single Ray of Light on an otherwise cloudy day (A short reprise for Friedrich Nietzsche, who warned us of science, but for very good reasons)

[2007]
Video, 6:15, Colour

This work features digitized, recolored, and generally junked up footage of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. The doctored found footage which is shown in reverse is meant as an attempt to make it all better or at least draw attention to the issue of science for sciences sake alluded to in the title.