Anders Thorén.

During the nineties increasingly redirecting work towards video and digital tools. In 1992 wrote, directed and produced the film Mentorn, with actor Sven Wollter in a monologue about Sweden's history of race biology, forced sterilisation's, and present days leading position in behavioural genetics. During further education at Fri konst & nya media a number of films based on found footage where made. A number of the films explore society's fear of weakness, our exaggerated belief in authority and need of consolation, along with issues of more artistic and narrative nature. A number of films are distributed by Netherlands Media Art Institute, MonteVideo/Time Based Art (www.montevideo.nl)

	His masters voice (1997, 2:44) Re-edited found footage from medical educational film, showing the exasperating efforts of a dog, trying to co-ordinate movement a year and a half after having its cerebellum removed. Set in an environment of baroque drapery and stage-lighting the imagery of the dog's strivings is transformed into a revelation of the endeavour to maintain balance in life, and our fear of loosing foothold physically as well as psychologically.
	Mind (1997, 3:05) The voice and words of a young woman bearing witness on her attempts to commit suicide in dialogue with the imagery of the hands and tools of scientists, probing the brain of a monkey. A riddle about integrity and of whom messes with whose brain
	Tempore (1997, 3:43) Addressing the ambiguity of the relationship between doctor and patient, helper and helped. In a black void, clad in white a doctor pushes a patient about. Thus illustrating the patient's faulty equilibrium sense, he at the same time sets our trust in his benevolence out of balance.
	Malign (1997, 4:14) Like a choreographed piece of compulsive behaviour and repetitious motion, meditating on the limbo of asylums as a purgatory of wanting and fearing life.
	Vortex (1997, 1:45) A duplicate version of the musical box ballet dancer, the cylindrical torsos of two girls rotate before our gaze. The notion that they are showing of is accompanied by a feeling that something is wrong.
	Mice and men (1997, 2:00) The title alludes to Lenny in Steinbeck's novel, whose strength and lack of self control makes his affection mortal for it's objects. Mice in the hands of men of science, in combination with a repetitious mantra of reflections on being.
	Yesterday...Today (1997, 4:03) Narcissism and mortality in a tug of war as the imagery of a young Adonis is contrasted by the face of a casualty of war going through massive surgery. Is it the same face? Does it matter in the long run?
	Sugar Dad (1998, 3:35) By juxtaposing heterogeneous visual material, a fictive dialogue emerges between a man and a young woman. Through the clash between the videos overtly didactic composition and a less tangible estrangement resulting from innate qualities of the materials, communication and meaning is discussed.

Anders Thorén mumsemos@privat.utfors.se