Found 4 works with artists containing "bielicky"

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Bielicky, Michael

  • Four Seasons
    Four Seasons Michael Bielicky
    In large cities the four seasons are subjected to the hectic and chaotic rhythm of constant activity. The seasons come and go yet scarcely influence urban life which, like a machine, is dominated by progress, by work and consumption, and by human relation...
    1984, 2'59'', Video, MonteVideo, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, LIMA
  • Golem Is Alive
    Golem Is Alive Michael Bielicky
    The Golem is a character in a Jewish folk story, a kind of artificial man made of clay who can be brought to life by correctly reciting the true name of God. Bielicky locates him in a graveyard in Prague that bears the splendid name of 'The House of Life'...
    1989, 4'07'', Video, MonteVideo, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, LIMA
  • Next Year in Jerusalem (Hommage a Rabbi Löw)
    Next Year in Jerusalem (Hommage a Rabbi Löw) Michael Bielicky
    Rabbi Löw lived in Prague (where Bielicky was born) in the 17th century. He was an alchemist who practised the Cabbala, the secret doctrine and form of mysticism which is rooted in Jewish culture. Bielicky regards this mysterious rabbi as a forerunner of ...
    1988, 5'46'', Video, MonteVideo, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, LIMA
  • Perpetuum Mobile
    Perpetuum Mobile Michael Bielicky
    Bielicky interprets life as a 'perpetuum mobile' in this short but intense and fast-moving collage of images which has been edited in an apparently arbitrary and non-narrative way. Perpetuum Mobile demonstrates that the constant dynamism of nature and cul...
    1986 - 1987, 4'09'', Video, MonteVideo, LIMA