RICCARDO IACONO
video preview clips - selected works
NB. Click on the title of each work to view video. The video clip will open in a new window.
silent colour DVD loop, 2:18 min, 2000
An abstract animation composed by painting directly on to 16mm film and manipulating the images photographically and through video editing. This is a revised edition of SKZCP. The film was originally commissioned with an Arts Council of England / Channel 4 Animate! Award and broadcast in 1997/98.
3:19 min, 35mm, colour silent film, 2000 (Also available as a silent DVD loop)
A poem of light, speed and memory formed through a combination of abstract handpainted film and live footage, manipulated through the use of optical printing and intricate editing. Letters explores the movement of light as music, text and body language.
single-channel edition, digital video, 14 min, 2002 (2 min clip)
A video collage combining recycled sequences of abstract animation and performance video, exploring the translation and regulation of data by the body and technology; the aesthetics and consequences of error; issues of identity and authenticity, copyright and ownership, access and denial, transparency and difference. Originally presented as a multi-channel installation (Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 2001)
4:55 min, DV colour stereo, 2004
An improvised camera performance, composed in one take. "Macro fingers in front of the lens provide an ad hoc matte filter, a close focussing mask, rendering the filtered sunlit landscape hazy and indistinct, just as the close sound of breath and tapping on the microphone mingle with the ambient sounds of wind and crickets." Steven Ball, Open Play: The Work of Riccardo Iacono, Axisweb, 2005
1.45 min, DV colour stereo, 2007
A study of surface and texture.
3:30 min, DV colour stereo, 2001
A dance video exploring body movement as visual music and conduction. Made in collaboration with the Scottish dancer, Vanessa Smith.
4 min, silent colour video, 2007
A cross-media installation and curatorial project combining video, animation, performance, painting, photography and print and incorporating artworks and artefacts from previous exhibitions at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
3 min, digital video, colour stereo, 2007
3 min, digital video, colour stereo, 2007
5:14 min silent video loop, 2008
A video collage exploring the processes of feedback and communication and the disorientating effects of motion sickness and vertigo. Made using appropriated live video downloaded via peer-to-peer file sharing networks. An ongoing project initiated in 2008
Welcome To Lucca - Neptune's Hand
31 min, DV colour stereo, 2007 (6 min clip)
A diary of observations, actions and ideas-in-progress made by throwing, scratching and jumping, Welcome To Lucca - Neptune’s Hand explores themes of embellishment, defacement, appropriation and play and reflects Iacono’s ongoing concerns with the relationships of body, image and place. The video was produced his Lucca Film Festival residency and was shot in Lucca and Florence.
1:45 min, DV colour stereo, 2006
A conversation with a man in the street about peas, drumming, meaning and taste.
7:30 min, digital video, colour stereo, 2007
A performance tape made by throwing objects in urban space, exploring disorientating gyrations of eye and camera movement, the complexities of optical, physical and social engagement, and the sculptural, rhythmic interplay of sound and light. The video was shot in the market place at South London's famous Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and was produced during an Animate Projects residency at LCC