Robert Beatty

Video and sound by Robert Beatty.

Video and sound by Robert Beatty.

Video and sound by Robert Beatty.

Video and sound by Robert Beatty.

Robert Beatty is an artist and musician best known for Three-Legged Race, his solo music project, and being part of the seminal noise band Hair Police. He's also designed iconic cover art for musicians as diverse as Tame Impala and Vybz Kartel. "Egg Timer", is his latest outing in video work. Developed over the course of a year, the video utilizes analog and CRT processing to create a work heavily inspired by surveillance footage, numbers stations and user interfaces from science fiction films.

Robert Beatty is an artist and musician best known for Three-Legged Race, his solo music project, and being part of the seminal noise band Hair Police. He's also designed iconic cover art for musicians as diverse as Tame Impala and Vybz Kartel. "Egg Timer", is his latest outing in video work. Developed over the course of a year, the video utilizes analog and CRT processing to create a work heavily inspired by surveillance footage, numbers stations and user interfaces from science fiction films.

In OM Rider, Takeshi Murata deftly weaves the aesthetics of retro-noir, video games, and Italian giallo film into a cinematic exercise in cool, narrative minimalism and distilled rebellion.

A film by Takeshi Murata

In Untitled (Pink Dot), Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood (1982) into a morass of seething electronic abstraction. Subjected to Murata's meticulous digital reprocessing, the action scenes decompose and are subsumed into an almost palpable, cascading digital sludge, presided over by a hypnotically pulsating pink dot.

In Silver, Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror movie (Mario Bava's 1960 film 'Mask of Satan', featuring Barbara Steele) — to his exacting yet almost violent digital manipulations. The seething black and white imagery constantly decomposes and reconstitutes itself, slipping seductively between abstraction and recognition.

With this abstract digital video, Murata presents viewers with a field of seething colors and line, within which a suggestive, Rorschach-like formation manages to retain its structure even as it is in a constant state of flux. The mesmerizing tableau that results is accompanied by a cyclical, dronelike sound track.