Movies: Catherine Elwes

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental....

Catherine Elwes, videotape. Screened at the About Time: Video, Performance and Installation by Women Artists exhibition at the ICA in 1980....

It consists of a one-shot one-minute embrace between a male hand and its female counterpart. The image is simple and sensual and it plays out its digital coupling against the aural backdrop of summer sounds....

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set....

An elegantly simple piece with only two images, a child tapping on glass and a piano player....

I wanted to make an image of a breast that was an object of nourishment. In Oxford where I live the only place where you can bare your breast to feed a child is in the café at the Museum of Modern Art. However, bare breasts are on display on display ...