Connie Coleman and Alan Powell , video and computer artists from Philadelphia, uses juxtaposed fragments to undermine our complacencies and assumptions. Their Ballet Digital is a kind of post-industrial Ballet Mechanique, Fernand Leger’s classic 1924 avantgarde film which captured the syncopations of an industrial world in the then new montage style. Coleman/Powell work post-industrial expression.
Selected Works
Red White & Blue
6:45
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1993
Produced at Experimental TV Center, WHYY TV Workshop
Bunk’s Blues
6:02
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
live music by Beausoleil
Produced at Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith
Static
6:48
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1989
Produced at Experimental TV Center, Mason Gross School of Art, Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith
DaDa Dance
5:45
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
live music by Beausoleil
Produced at Experimental TV Center, Videosmith
Speech without Response
7:55
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
performed by Lesley Powell
text: For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign: Jean Baudrillard
Produced at Experimental TV Center, Videosmith
Sermon
6:16
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
live music by Beausoleil
Produced at Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith
Girl on a Swing
4:58
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
performed by Lesley Powell
live music by Mike Nolan
Produced at Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith
2 Angels
3:06
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
live music by Beausoleil
Produced at Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith
Gender Rolls
3:25
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1990
live music: Another World. Roches
Produced at Coleman/Powell studio, Videosmith