X-8: VIDEO

Airline Crash. The original footage by Andre Karsenty. Looped for two hours without sound by X-8, 1999.


Videostills from each piece.

1
Snow Angel

2006. Silent. 2 hours

Statue in a snowstorm.


1
Ritual

2004. Ambient audio with no commentary dialogue. 2 hours (in real time)

Live raw feed of former President Reagan's body in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.


1
Seizures

2003. Audio. 2 hours.

Fireworks over Los Angeles.


ice
Whiskey And Ice

2002. Silent. Slow motion. One hour 30 minutes.


RISING
Rising Ghosts

2001. Silent. One hour.

Filmed from the Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.


Ramones: "Rockaway Beach"

2001. 6 hours. News footage.

Continuous live coverage of American Airlines Flight 587 Disaster in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City with the Ramones' "Rockaway Beach" looped over entire footage.


clouds
Clouds

2001. Silent. Two hours.


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Father

1999. Silent. One hour.

Looped news coverage on the 1999 murder of X-8's father in Los Angeles.


Airline Crash
Airline Crash

1999. Silent. Two hours.

Footage of an Air France A-320 Airbus crashing into a forest at the end of a runway with 130 passengers aboard in Habsheim, France, June 1988. The original footage by Andre Karsenty.

In 1999, X-8 looped this sequence for two hours and entitled it Airline Crash. It debuted in Los Angeles industrial club Das Bunker the same year.


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Velvet Belly: "Standstill"

1999. Audio.

A quiet love ballad mixed with Airline Crash footage. (See above)

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SEE AND HEAR


nasa
The Beautiful Death

1999. Silent. 6 hours. NASA footage.

Imagery from several space shuttle missions.


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LAX

1997. Audio. Two hours.

Aircraft approaching the runway at LAX.


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Bomb Threat

1996. 6 hours.

A man with a truck bomb threatens to blow up Los Angeles television station KCAL. Live coverage and home video of LAPD SWAT teams and tanks taking position in front of X-8's studio.


trees
Trees At Dusk

1995. Silent. Two hours.

Trees, branches and leaves swaying in the wind on a sunny afternoon. The images darken as the sun sets until they are ghost-like glimmers in the dark.


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