Taly and Russ Johnson

Side Effects
Sample scenes from Side Effects.  Only two developed countries, the USA and New Zealand, allow drug companies full television access to advertise their product. This video is built upon a montage of TV drug ads in the United States. Exploring the commercial overload with visual spontaneity... more

Nam June Paik's Fingerprints
Taly and Russ' portrait of the artist Nam June Paik through a collage of his own edits

Leisure Class - I love You More
Not so much a band as a musical and visual assault on the comfort and sanity of those poor unfortunate souls who wandered into the East Village bars and performance spaces of the late 1980's and early 1990's. Edited from original footage of the group.

Surveillance
Sample scenes from "Surveillance" looks at the nature and role of studying what has been captured in surveillance footage.   Touching on a range of subjects through a series of seemingly unrelated studies.

Nine Brief Pieces Redux
Sample scenes from Nine Brief Pieces. The artists question the role of communication through video language, both audio and visual. The subjects present themselves often with humor for reflection.  The point of this work is to figure out the hidden in our familiar world, one step at a time. 04:55, 2004

Stream
Sample scenes from Stream.  A stream of consciousness and liquid video poem. With Ed Korczynski, Truly Johnson, Glenn Johnson and Anthony Matt. 03:58, 2003

Theme Park Fun
This experimental piece tours the unexpected sun burnt sadness found in a theme park.  The piece was created in reaction to the artists own recent All-American Theme Park experience.  02:31, 2003

Egg
The beauty of birth. 00:43, 2000

Pot 
America, the melting pot. 01:13, 2000

A Few Important Messages               For Our Viewers Three questions of integrity and selling.  A conceptual piece using the form of TV commercials to sell you questions of greed, lies, and false proof.   Important messages are neither really important nor real messages.

William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton Presidential study number 42
An experimental and in-depth (One minute and 15 seconds) look at Bill Clinton, the forty-second President of the United States. more

Life Cycle
Artist David Hebb's art installation Life Cycle was a series of three sculptural "sites" (Birth, Sex and Death) which were linked together by a snaking canal of water. more