J & L Video

J&L Video is the first in a new series of anthology DVDs featuring 12 original shorts, each under seven minutes, by contemporary artists and filmmakers. In the spirit of the book series J&L Illustrated, J&L Video compiles films and video works from around the world with a sensibility that combines the real and the ridiculous. Featured works include Catherine Ross's split-screen, cropped outtakes from the TV show The Price is Right; Matt McCormick's Destiny, a bizarre world of clicking and applause; dreamy documentary sketches about family by Brock Enright; stock figurative illustrations representing all of human history in a continuous loop by Oliver Laric; Will Rogan's incredibly mundane experiments with chance; Julie Lequin's Sounds Like Julie, in which the artist is imitated by her friends; an exchange between a photographer and his subject in the American Southwest by Amy Harrington; Ed Panar's ebullient music video, Here I Go Again; Shana Moulton's exercise-video fantasy world, Feeling Free; and Andrew Lampert's fashion-shoot nightmare.