In his short life, Gino De Dominicis reflected primarily on questions of time and eternity. Always defined by a poetic sense of humour his practice has stayed with me as the best one at acknowledging our failure in being and understanding the world. The video begins with the words of the artist, Gino De Dominicis, who states: "Perhaps because I never managed to swim, I decided to learn to fly." After this explanation, the artist moves on to demonstrating the exercise.
I am a kid of the 90’s and I grew up watching MTV when I woke up or before I went to sleep. I cherished the music but also the creativity of Michel Gondry or Spike Jones. This is undoubtedly one of my favorite music video, it’s harsh and punk and intense like Prodigy are and uses a first person view revealing something unexpected at the end.
This might sound a bit cheesy, but I love Sarah Morris’ city videos, all of them, the images, the architectural fetish, their soundtrack, they are just great. Sarah Morris made the film Capital in Washington D.C. during the final days of the Clinton administration. It is a record of now unimaginable access to the center of power. Capital is part of a series of films Morris has been making since the 1990s, continuing to investigate architectures structures of control, and the mapping of global socio-political networks.
Artist Meriem Bennani and filmmaker Orian Barki launched a playful Instagram video series in 2020 during the pandemic. Featuring two CGI lizards in New York, the artists' alter egos, themes such as self-distancing, hygiene paranoias, safety and wealth as well as existential questions emerged through their voices. It felt cathartic to look at them, and not so lonely after all.
