Between the Ticks of the Watch shorts program

These artists’ moving image works explore how uncertainty affects the personal, the political, and the social. Phil Collins’ marxism today (prologue) follows the fortunes of former teachers of Marxism-Leninism in Communist East Germany; The Role of a Lifetime by Deimantas Narkevičius considers the ethical responsibilities of the artist and the impossibility of objectivity; and in The Amateurist Miranda July portrays a woman on the brink of a technologically-driven madness.

• Phil Collins, marxism today (prologue), 2010. HD digital video; color and black & white, sound; 35 min.
• Deimantas Narkevičius, The Role of a Lifetime, 2003. 16 mm film transferred onto DVD; color and black & white, sound: English spoken; 16 min 50 sec.
• Miranda July, The Amateurist, 1998. Color, stereo; 14 min.

Presented in partnership with Doc Films. Thanks to Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.