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99 FLOORS
Single Channel Video for Flat Screen, 11:35 min, loop, 2007 Summary: Elevators form the essential travelling experiences of vertical urban ...
AFTERLIFE
HD Video, 7:10min, 2010, colour Synopsis: Vast desert expanses extend out in our imaginations as life after death, the white ...
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Installation for 8 Monitors, Video, 8 min loop, 1998 Synopsis: In the video installation "Again & Again" Melhus tells—not without ...
AMERICA SELLS
Video, 7 min., 1990 Synopsis: July 1st 1990 marked the day of monetary reunification between East and West Germany. The West ...
ARRIVAL DEPARTURE – DEPARTURE ARRIVAL
Video Projection on 2 screens / 2 LED cubes, 6:05 min, loop, 1998 ...
AUTO CENTER DRIVE
16 mm film transferred to video, 28:00 min, 2003 Synopsis: By quoting the most diverse identification models from the memory ...
BEAGLE III
Video Sculpture (Driftwood Sculpture and TVs), 2009 Description: BEAGLE 3 is an outlandish looking video sculpture the exterior of which ...
BEHIND THE MOON, BEYOND THE RAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 7:50 min, loop, 2005 Screening Version (single channel), 7:50 min, 2005 Synopsis: "Behind the Moon, Beyond ...
BLUE MOON
Single Channel Video, 4 min., 1997 Double channel video/ installation, 4 min., 1997 Synopsis: “Mickey went to Europe, the Smurf ...
CAPTAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 14 min., loop, 2005 Screening Version: HD Video, 14:20 min, 2005 Synopsis: As a child, Bjørn Melhus ...
CRITICAL SYSTEM ALERT
12 Channel Installation on 12 Photo Frames with Video Option, 2009 (stand alone work, but often presented together with Mars ...
DAS BADEZIMMER
HD Video, 5'10 min, 2011, black and white Synopsis: In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in ...
DAS ZAUBERGLAS (THE MAGIC GLASS)
Video, 6'00, 1991 DAS ZAUBERGLAS considers subjectivity in regards to media culture, viewing and being viewed, and the positions of ...
DEADLY STORMS
3 channel video installation on 3 vertical plasma or LCD screens, 42" (minimum size) 7'00 min. loop, 2008 Synopsis: DEADLY ...
DEADLY STORMS 333
9 channel Video Installation for 9 vertical flat screens on 3 walls, 2008, 7 min. Synopsis: Deadly Storms 333, is ...
DIE UMGEKEHRTE RÜSTUNG
(THE INVERSED ARMORY) Video, 2002, 23:42 min, loop In collaboration with Yves Netzhammer Synopsis: Die umgekehrte Rüstung (The Reversed Armory) ...
EASTERN WESTERN PARK
6 channel installation for 3 projections, monitors and tent, 2005, 11:15 min, loop Demo: Documentation: Synopsis: Eastern Western Park is ...
EMOTION FIELD #1
EMOTION FIELD #1 - The Odd Couple (German) 3 channel installation (synchronized) for 16 TVs, 2007, 7'15" (loop) Synopsis: Such is ...
FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL
2 channel installation for 6 TV screens, 2003, 7'30 min Synopsis: Bjørn Melhus´ video installation "FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL" ...
GOOD MORNING NEW WORLD
Video, 58 min., 2000 Compilation of 75 TV excerpts from year 2000 New Year's broadcasts from all over the world ...
HAPPY REBIRTH
Video, 1:30 min, 2004 Synopsis: Marilyn Monroe is a cultural sex icon, and her singing happy birthday in a sultry ...
HAUSER
A4, Visualisation/ Concept for a Work, 2013 When investigating the phenomenon of Kaspar Hauser for a group exhibition Bjørn Melhus ...
HEADHUNTER
Video Object, (HD Video, Stand-up Figure), 2014 Synopsis: A headless figure is holding the head of the artist who is ...
HEADSHOTS (1991 – 2014)
Captured from Film, Video and Production Stills 87 C-Prints, 40x30 cm, framed, 2014 Installation Views: ...
Heaven
HD Video for Vertical Flatscreen, 6:20 min, 2013 Demo Video: This video was developed as part of the installation "Liberty ...
HECHO EN MEXICO
HD Video for installation, 4 min. (loop), 2009 Synopsis: HECHO EN MEXICO was realized in Mexico City during a one month ...
I DO NOT BELONG IN THIS HOUSE
HD Video for projection, 24 min., 2011 Synopsis: In "I do not belong in this House", the figure who seemed ...
I’M NOT THE ENEMY
HD Video for Installation, 25 min., 2011 Screening Version: HD Video, 13:30 min, 2011, Germany Very short synopsis: Is it ...
I’M YOUR TV
Video, 0:28 min, 2003 Synopsis & Background: In spring 2003 the US American art collector Cliff Diver, (owner of C.P. Diver ...
ICH WEISS NICHT, WER DAS IST
(I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS) Video, 3 min, 1991 Film Synopsis: An abstract collage from segmented videos, produced and ...
JETZT (NOW)
Video, 5 min., 1993 Description: White forms and shapes emerge and vanish against a black flickering screen. An anthem and explosions ...
LIBERTY PARK
multichannel video installation, 2013 incl. 9 sets with 13 standup figures and billboard video, neon letters, door sign and 1 ...
MAESTRA
HD Video, 3 min. loop, 2009/2014 Synopsis: A masked rider who is armed heavily with high-tech equipment sits on the ...
MARS RECOVERY
Object and Text Video, 2009, 5:37 min, loop Description: MARS RECOVERY includes videos, photographs and objects orbiting around the once ...
MURPHY
Video, 3:45 min., 2008, Video Installation, 3:30 min., loop, 2008 Synopsis: The videolight sequence is based on sound snippets from the movie ...
NIGHTWATCH | NACHTWACHE
2010, 3 channel video installation (HD, SD mix): 7 tents, 1 billboard, 1 video projection Synopsis: The meaning of the ...
NO SUNSHINE
Video, 1997, 6 min., loop (for installation) 6'15 min. with titles for screening Synopsis: Depicting pairs of infantile doppelgängers floating ...
OMEN
Video, HD animation, moving image loop, 2008 Synopsis: In OMEN five identical, muscular men march over the globe in synchronised ...
OUT OF THE BLUE
Video, 6:27 min., 1997 OUT OF THE BLUE presents a subjective and informative response to being part of the first European ...
POLICIA
Video, 2 frames, loop, 2007 Synopsis: Exhibiting a paradoxically static yet active Mexican police helicopter, appearing to be simultaneously vigilant and ...
PRIMETIME
3 channel installation for 29 consumer TVs, 1 projection, 5 video cubes and stage, 1o min., loop, 2001 Synopsis: Primetime ...
REINIGUNGSKASSETTE
(CLEANING TAPE) Video, VHS, 60 min., 1993 Synopsis: Inside the TV lives someone ... occasionally they clean their window and you ...
SCENERY MARS
Video, 2009, 7'10, loop (part of MARS RECOVERY) Synopsis: The projection which is part of the work Mars Recovery/ Mars ...
SCREENSAVERS
SCREENSAVERS for Osram Seven Screens interactive media installation on LED Screens/ installation in public space Synopsis: Screensavers is the name ...
SILVERCITY 1+2
Video Installation, 2 channels, 7 min., 1999, Silver City 1 (Silver City ist weit weg/ Silver City is far away) ...
SLOGAN SERIES
Photo Series, ongoing FLYING BLUE C-Print, 30 x 40 cm, 2008 CUT & GO C-Print, 30 x 40 cm, 2008 ...
SOMETIMES (Fire in Zero Gravity)
Video Installation, 2002, 5 channel installation on 10 TVs and 4 projections, 8 min. loop Description: Ten television monitors evoke the ...
STILL MEN OUT THERE
6 channel (synchronized) installation for 18 TVs, 10min, loop, 2003 Synopsis: Composed of eighteen television monitors, installed on the floor in ...
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION
Video HD, 4:20 min, (Screening Format), 2012 Video HD, 4:00 min, loop (Installation), 2012 Synopsis: A man in a hotel. A ...
THE CASTLE
Video, 2:30 min, 2007 Synopsis: By considering the cinematic conventions and stylizations of movie trailers, THE CASTLE manipulates visual content and ...
THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
HD VIDEO, 25 min., 2010 Norwegian with English Subtitles Synopsis: Time flows through the bottleneck of an hourglass like grains ...
THE CITY
Ongoing video project, variable in installation size, 2007 Synopsis: In "The City" night time views of major cities around the ...
THE MEADOW
Video (DV), 28:38 min (loop), 2007 Screening Version: 29:40 min, 2007 Synopsis: In order to engage an increasingly commercialized society ...
THE ORAL THING
Single Channel Video, 2001, 8 min., loop (for screening or installation) Synopsis: The Oral Thing casts the TV host as evangelist ...
THIS IS MY HOME
5 channel video installation, 2011 (On 5 flat screens, size variable, 2'00 / 3'00 / 4'00 / 5'00 / 6'00 min., ...
TOAST/ CORNFLAKES
TOAST, film, 16mm, 1986, 1 min. in collaboration with Anne Maar (Super 8 version, 1:30 min) Toast, buttered or not, ...
TREEHOUSE #1, #2 & #3
TREEHOUSE #1 Video, Installation for Treehouse and 1 TV, 3:29 min, loop Synopsis: Lights blink in the treehouse, sounds of ...
WEEPING
Video projection, 7 min. loop, 2001 Synopsis: In Weeping (2001) Melhus assumes the role of a televangelist preaching the way to ...
WEIT WEIT WEG
(FAR FAR AWAY) Film, 16 mm transferred to Video, 39 min., 1995 Story: With her green bow in her hair, ...
