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    Open Room

    • 1993
    • 00h 15m 10s
    • Alex Poruchnyk
    • Rent $300
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    Synopsis

    A video-audio environment in which the viewer is drawn by necessity into interacting with the piece.

    Categories

    • Installation,
    • Childhood,
    • Experimental,
    • Performance,
    • Short

    Shooting Format

    • Unknown

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Alex Poruchnyk

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Alex Poruchnyk

    Dock-Watch-Bay

    • 2002
    • Alex Poruchnyk

    Weather vanes can be looked at for the promise of good weather and smooth sailing or with concern, Sailor take Warning.

    Dock-Watch-Bay

    Face March

    • 1984
    • Vern Hume, Alex Poruchnyk

    A grandmother spends one year gathering news coverage of war, thinking about a silent army. The results strip away all of broadcast television’s trappings. All we are left with are people in conflict, people in pain, people afraid for the future, leaders coming and going, and new leaders coming and going. Original soundtrack by Hume and Poruchnyk.

    Face March

    The Man in the Box

    • 1981
    • Alex Poruchnyk

    An endeavor to set up a communication that really matters. The man in the box tries to break down the distance from the viewer by becoming isolated in a concrete structure. The communication out is via camera to monitor mounted outside the concrete enclosure. The communication in is a microphone outside to an amplifier inside the box. Ultimately, the communication breaks down when water from the casting leaks into the enclosure and short-circuits the system. The audience witnesses a failure to c

    The Man in the Box

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