films and videos made by Ian Andrews

the harm machine

coldwar technofear and scientific terror. A humorous look at the psuedo-scientific and psuedo-philosophical discourse of 1950s B grade sci-fi and catastrophy films. An assemblage of "found" concrete poetry and recombinant images.

deathless

a short experimental psuedo-documentary concerning the poetics of death and its cultural iconography. as the body is flung into battle, obliterated in the air, consumed by carrion birds, worms and bacteria, a Catholic priest recites a reassuring eulogy .

hyperspace

a "retrovision" of the space age. the futureistic aesthetics of 1950s commodity fetishism find themselves adrift in their own referential field. vacationland lost in hyperspace.

joey: an electro-mechanical boy

a poetic interpretation of the true story (psychological case study by Bruno Bettelheim) of a schizophrenic boy who lives as a machine. he wishes "to become completely automatic in order to rid himself of his unbearable humanity."

phonogramm

an office worker struggles to maintain a path between two extremes

programme

"discipline will transform us from confused and useless colonials into useful and obedient citizens of the empire."

zeroville

video . 10 minutes . 1993

secret agent Johnny Antipodes is sent to deal with the sinister FRUMP organisation of the information age cognitariate.

datapanic

the incredible speed of the New York Stock Exchange's Superdot electronic order routing system means that the Dow Jones index can swing back and forth by more than 50 points in a matter of minutes. these fluctuations bring about a condition known as 'data panic': a feeling of insecurity and anxiety that engulfs every transfer of digital information, from international trade to electronic banking

forgotten memory series

jumpcut - equalibrium - departure

video . 26 minutes . 2000

minimal film loops and videotronics

red is green

hypnotism, psychadelic video and repetitive beats. An evil plot by the female asian communist Other, to force free thinking minds to disobey traffic lights.

jerking off the troops

cut-up of george Bush's thanksgiving day speech to the Gulf War troops.

plastic

computer animation and video

beyond control

anti-ID-card video

krush kill destroy

Ronald Reagan is a robot constructed by NASA

fastest accelerating tV

video cut-up

tV repairman in hell

collaborative abstract videonics made in three passes of multiple "on the fly" insert edits

chloroform

compilation of early video and film experiments

subvertigo

as not seen on tV

compilation of excerpts from subvertigo performances