Directing
Paul Harrison
Acting credits
NRJim 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.
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Two figures attempt to capsize a semi circle.
Boat
1993
Video art by Paul Harrison and John Wood.
Two Wall Sections
1998
NRTwo figures, strapped to each other at the leg, try to avoid being hit by tennis balls fired from a machine.
Three-Legged
1997
Two figures manipulate a board.
Board
1993
One ladder One figure Ascend Descend One hundred times
100 Falls
2013
Behind the camera
NRSheets are whittled away one by one from a stack of A4 paper using an electric sander.
One More Kilometre
2009
Video art by Paul Harrison and John Wood.
Photocopier
2007
NRVideo (color, sound) | Media and Performance
Six Boxes (Single Sequence)
1997
Two figures attempt to capsize a semi circle.
Boat
1993
66.86m of rope. A corner of a room. A chair.
66.86m
2004
NRVideo (color, sound) | Media and Performance
Device
1996
Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.
Shaft
2000
Video art by Paul Harrison and John Wood.
Blind/Spot
2007
Video art by Paul Harrison and John Wood.
Two Wall Sections
1998
NRTwo figures, strapped to each other at the leg, try to avoid being hit by tennis balls fired from a machine.
Three-Legged
1997
This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and volume) can be used to see the human figure as an object in three dimensional space.
Six Boxes (Lifesize)
1997
Two figures manipulate a board.
Board
1993
One ladder One figure Ascend Descend One hundred times
100 Falls
2013
A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.
Volunteer
2000
A man brilliantly comes to terms with a tricky situation. A breathtaking video. But take a deep breath first!
Harry Houdini (There’s No Escape That I Can See)
1994