News of the Weird: Textilist Colonies / 2023

Elaine Baxandall reports on the odd sub-culture textilism, and asks several people about their thoughts on textilists, and the clothes they use to cover themselves.

En profil dans le texte

French TV show featuring conversations on literature.

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker / 1975

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

Visual Text: Finger Poem / 1973

Second version of the video-poem "Visual Text: Finger Poem" (1968), by Valie Export, conceived after the eponymous photo poem from 1968: "I say what is shown in showing what is said" (freely adapted from Martin Heidegger).

Texture of Dreams / 2009

Dreams displayed and animated with the hand of the animator visible in some of the scenes.

The Text / 2015

How far would you go to protect your best friend's secret? In this promotional short film, a group of friends is spending some nice time having fun and playing video game. Part of this team, best buddies Rafael and Diego are teasing each other with their several talks while "fighting" each other in the game. But when one of them gets easily distracted and leaves the room, the other will check the friend's phone to see who is the person who keeps interrupting them from time to time. Then comes a unexpected revelation that will come as a test for these boys.

Not in Textbooks 6 / 2019

Based on a popular comic by Kazuto Okada, this is the sixth episode of the series, which is the final story of the school romantic comedy "Not in Textbooks!" that depicts the cohabitation life of a cute and popular high school girl and a Japanese language teacher swayed by her. Aya Shirakaba became a third-year student at Otome High School, and now it's only one year before graduating. It's been another year since she lived with her homeroom teacher, Arihiko Tairaku, but at that time, a story about a marriage with May was brought up in Tairaku. On the other hand, Aya's father, who wanted to separate her daughter who is too close to Tairaku from him, tells Aya about studying abroad. Aya listens to her father and decides to study abroad. Ayaka Morikawa and Ryouma Baba, who have starred in the whole series, play Aya and Tairaku respectively, and Sena Natsuki, a gravure idol, plays the role of May who is in a triangular relationship with the two.

State-authorized Textbook / 2017

Why on earth should we use the state-authorized textbook? Many history scholars share their opinions about the nature, background and significance of the book and why history is forcibly imposed.

Verse Texture / 1998

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three [Chinese] travelers and the girl [Anna] are spoken as a monologue by the actress. The actor just listens but occasionally he gives her instructions.

Unobvious Textbook / 1991

Funny Monkey, omniscient Parrot, polite Elephant and pensive Boa start to learn mathematics.

Text Complex / 2019

The protagonist hates the Japanese hiragana letter "hee." Just the sight of it bothers her. But one day, she finds herself in a parallel world where the same syllabary lives a spectacular life.

Tendenza: la Modernizzazione dell’ industria tessile Italo-Canadese / 2020

Depicts the incredible story of the contributions made by the Italian Canadian community of Montreal to the fashion industry and how impactful these contributions were to the design culture and labour market in Quebec.

Deus Ex Forgot the Text / 2023

The city of Chernivtsi, 2022 year, the first month of the war. Refugees from all over Ukraine, including theatrical figures, arrive there. They end up in a world where art is no longer needed. Despite this, they start recreating theatre in the present circumstances; they perform on the streets and in refugee centers, rehearsing plays about the war in bomb shelters during air raid sirens. The city of Chernivtsi, the first month of the war. Refugees from all over Ukraine, including theatrical figures, arrive there. They end up in a world where art is no longer needed. Despite this, they start recreating theatre in the present circumstances; they perform on the streets and in refugee centers, rehearsing plays about the war in bomb shelters during air raid sirens.

Text or Apologia of a Commentary / 2000

The picture consists of two parts, the characters of which are busy commenting on what is happening to them and in the whole world. In the first part ("A Babysitter for a Boy"), the author plays with a literary character and a plot. In the second part ("Commentator for the Poet") The author plays with a fictional Poet (in turn, also with the author), who is portrayed by the Author-commentator. However, this Author is not the last in the hierarchy of similar characters.

Textiles at Heart / 2000

Hong Kong movie

The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue / 2023

Through the aesthetic experiment of reconstructing its own time and space, this film reinterprets the time and space of online dialogue text, and explores the phenomenon and facts of modern interpersonal dialogue.

Visual Text: Finger Poem / 1968

The 1968 version of Finger Poem. In it, VALIE EXPORT uses sign language in her performance, forming an alphabet with her fingers. This is a work that reflects her interest in semantic theories, her analysis of how language comes about and the images it uses, as well as the varying possibilities for articulation through body language or written or spoken language.

Breath Text: Love Poem / 1973

Breath Text is a powerfully simple performance in which VALIE EXPORT creates tension by breathing compulsively. “she breathes heavily at the video camera lens while slowly moving her face across it, fogging up the entire space with her lung’s volume. Her piece takes Olson’s breathy poem ‘Gli Amanti’ a step further, not just aiming to capture the particularities of one’s pronunciation in an individual speech act but substituting the specific make her body creates – her ‘breath text,’ the moist gasp on the window glass in front of her – for the signs one would use to write an actual, linguistic ‘love poem.’” – Lisa Siraganian

Labour's Battle Song (Laid-off Shinkong Textile Workers' Protest) / 1988

Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off workers gathered for a street protest, singing popular songs with altered lyrics. As the battle wore on, they began a long-term protest in front of the Shinkong headquarters lasting for 76 days.

Japanese Women's Textbook / 1937