Now Available: Four Videos by Tommy Becker
Posted October 28th, 2024 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
Let’s Make a Movie (2014, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
A love song and tribute to classic cinema.
Song for the Lemons (2013, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
The lemon, often utilized by famed still-life painters, was rarely the focus of a composition. More typically, it was being abused for its compositional qualities. Its ovoid form of highly saturated yellow was used to balance the more dominant pile of apples, oranges, and pears. The lemon, I felt, never got its day in the sun. This video is a visual lesson plan and my tribute to the lemon.
Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun (2004, 4 minutes, color, sound, digital video)
After piecing together a yellow outfit from second hand stores, the simple act of jumping is turned into a performed act of giving as a figure struggles to transform himself into the sun.
I Can be Happy Trapped in a Living Room With a Rabbit That Has No Eyes (2001, 3 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
A surreal, lo-fi presentation of the popularized Buddhist teaching of surrender. In a stark room, a young man struggles to overcome his anxieties of confinement with an eyeless rabbit. Failing to befriend the bunny, he turns inward in hopes of shifting perspective.
