Movies: Rodney Graham

  • 2007
    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else (2007)

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

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    The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic. As seen through the eyes of fellow emigrant filmmaker René...

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else
  • 1999
    How I Became a Ramblin’ Man

    How I Became a Ramblin’ Man (1999)

    How I Became a Ramblin’ Man

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    In How I Became a Ramblin’ Man, shot in widescreen format, Rodney Graham casts himself in the role of a cowboy roaming a pastoral British Columbia landscape on horseback. The opening minutes of the soundtrack evoke the surrounding nature: lapping wat...

    How I Became a Ramblin’ Man
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8 (2003)

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

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    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected by a 1960s-era Victoria 8 projector. This exhibit was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art....

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 1997
    Vexation Island

    Vexation Island (1997)

    Vexation Island

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    In Vexation Island, which Graham premiered at the Canadian Pavilion of the 1997 Venice Biennale, the artist appears in full shipwrecked sailor mode, lying unconscious under a tree on a paradise island, with a bruise on his head. Played on a neverendi...

    Vexation Island