Violent Textures of Nature and Flesh
An experimental dance film dissolving the boundaries between the body and nature, using haptic cinema to explore the ways our bodies give and receive violence and pleasure from the natural world.
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An experimental dance film dissolving the boundaries between the body and nature, using haptic cinema to explore the ways our bodies give and receive violence and pleasure from the natural world.
A series of knitted animations exploring the translation process from pixel design to physical objects. What is lost and what is gained when pixels become fabric?
Elaine Baxandall reports on the odd sub-culture textilism, and asks several people about their thoughts on textilists, and the clothes they use to cover themselves.
A film by Charles and Ray Eames
For over two decades now, the regularity of unmitigated violence has left daily life in Kashmir in tatters. The violence has had an impact on almost every home and many families have no adult male members. The film looks
A 4-Channel work intended for installation and theatrical screening. Presented here in its silent version. The work is also presented with a live soundtrack performed by M. Woods and a recorded version is also available.
When a radical, Indigenous, feminist, and a devout, Black, Mormon are paired up on a school assignment they exchange contact information and reluctantly begin chatting via text. Though they are not compatible on paper, a
Follows three Black women through the private and meaningful rituals of caring for their hair.
The film shows Marcel Broodthaers trying to write while the rain constantly washes away the ink. In the final scene, during which the artist gives up and drops his pen, the inscription “Projet pour un texte” (Project for
In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and violently opposed by mill owners and
Maddy and Cole were inseparable friends until high school started and Maddy became the most popular girl on campus. When she starts feeling lonely and heartbroken, she reconnects with Cole and the duo conspire to destroy
The film begins with footage of a city of ruins, when the entire cityscape of Warsaw is covered with stones. It is 1945. Themed around stones as carriers of historical memory, the movie is so closely filmed that the view
The creation of this collection began when the IM MEN design team encountered the work of ceramic artist Shoji Kamoda, who aims for unique beauty in form. This collection is the result of our single-minded pursuit of giv
A 21-minute visual essay from film historian Evan Chester exploring the background and style of Yuri Norstein, influences on his work, how his work fits into the history of Russian animation, and more.
This educational film illustrates various textures as students create different kinds of textured art by using ordinary objects and materials.
Short film by Kayako Oki.
Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off workers gathered for a s
Jenny Holzer adopts the form and language of commercial messages to disrupt communication, presenting kamikaze texts that are deigned to stimulate thought, with humor, and inspire a critical attitude in an often passive