People Like Us Trailers
Nothing Can Turn Into a Void: An Art Apart: People Like Us Trailer
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, Maxxi and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. She has an ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. In 2013 Vicki premiered the performance Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) at transmediale, created a film for live improvising artists/musicians NOTATIONS which toured the UK with TUSK/Sound & Music, a film with 7 artist soundtracks GESTURE PIECE, films for Animate Projects/Channel 4, and a new CD called Don't Think Right, It's All Twice. Vicki had a solo gallery show Shutter at Leeds College of Art in February 2014 and is currently working on a new film/performance Citation City, a project reflecting upon Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project in relation to 20th Century London.
Most Popular People Like Us Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
01 January 2002
This is the first in a series of films using documentary, industrial and educational film footage from the Prelinger Archive and The Internet Archive.
31 December 2012
A supercut of the Golden Gate Bridge and water.
01 January 2005
Made using footage from the Prelinger Archives and A/V Geeks, this film explores how technology enables us to communicate faster.
01 March 2009
The work is created using a technique that expands film scenes beyond the conventional screen ratio. The finished result reveals beautiful panoramic views of the background landscapes as captured by the panning camera, effectively allowing film scenes to be seen as never before.
01 January 1999
This is part of a collection of rarely seen early avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
01 January 2003
Using found footage sourced from educational films in the Prelinger Archives, this work explores the subject of experimentation in human body and machine interfaces in the 20th century.
01 March 2012
The climactic scene of John Huston's Key Largo is fused with John Cage's 4'33", all dialogue is stripped away to reveal a cinema of movement, glances and inadvertent comedy.
01 January 1999
This is a collection of rarely seen early avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
01 January 2014
Sleep deficient actors drift in and out of consciousness. Peer into a parallel cinematic world that exists between the edits, when we are not looking at the screen.
01 January 2013
The Golem, a monstrous being of inanimate matter from Jewish folklore, is accidentally summoned from a book wreaks havoc through a library.
01 July 2011
This film was originally screened as part of a solo show of the same name at Vitrine Gallery in London from July-September 2011.
07 October 2014
A washing machine less ordinary: The electronic music duo Matmos probes the music making capabilities of the “Ultimate Care II” by Whirlpool and weaves the sounds of its housing, laundry cycle and switches into a beat.
01 June 2015
British artist Vicki Bennett takes you on a roller coaster-ride with her art project People Like Us. In performances, videos, collages and music, her amazing editing techniques and sense of humor leave you flabbergasted and enthusiastic at the same time.
01 January 2013
Who knows where ideas come from? You or me? Or THEM? The Muses are angry and they want their ideas back! This is a story of thieving and reappropriation, staged on a mythological platform.
01 January 2004
This work was created using film from the LUX archive by artists Alan Berliner, Lawrence Jordan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and the Estate of Stan Vanderbeek.
01 January 2010
Two well-known feature films are edited together to create more than a sum of the parts.
01 January 2007
A video triptych exploring the themes of labour, leisure and industriousness, carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975 to follow the endless chug of the conveyer belt of life.
01 January 2000
From a collection of rarely seen early pc-made avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
01 January 2009
A word from the artist... While viewing and sourcing content from the Great North Run film archive, it occurred to me that the huge crowds that come to spectate this event are as important as the participator.
01 January 2007
Vicki spent 4 months with "access all areas" to the BBC's million-strong archive. The result was a short film using imagery collaged from a number of documentaries made between 1951 and 1980 - featuring footage shot at the Festival of Britain, as well as other footage portraying optimistic outlooks on post-war Britain.
01 January 2013
This film-collage-as-visual-score is created from hundreds of different film clips, where the content conceptually or literally portrays different kinds of instructions to be read by the improvising artists on stage as a visual score.
01 January 1999
A collection of rarely seen early pc-made avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
01 January 2009
In 2009, People Like Us and many others remixed The Inaugural Poem, because we felt that the first one needed improving.
01 January 2015
A time-travelling voyage through one city, assembled from hundreds of movie clips and inspired by the wanderings of Walter Benjamin.
01 January 2005
This is was included often in People Like Us live audiovisual live sets around the time of creation, inspired by a sinister revolving doll head and the fact that PLU generally play their concerts in cinemas.
01 January 2011
A 30 minute edit of "The Magical Misery Tour", a 45 minute concert created between June and September 2011.
01 January 1999
One of Vicki Bennett's first computer-made avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
08 April 2008
The 'garden' was a first attempt to sanitise and control nature. Once there was the wilderness, now there is the urban jungle.
01 January 2011
An outtake from The Magical Misery Tour, an audiovisual performance by People Like Us.
