Point of View Project descriptions:

1. Francis Alÿs, El Gringo (2003)

Running time: 4 minutes 12 seconds

In El Gringo, viewers experience the discomfort of being an outsider when the camera is confronted by a pack of snarling dogs.

2. David Claerbout, Le Moment (2003)

Running time: 2 minutes 44 seconds

Claerbout uses cinematic techniques to create a suspenseful journey through a dimly lit forest that reaches an unexpected conclusion.

3. Douglas Gordon, Over My Shoulder (2003)

Running time: 13 minutes 48 seconds

In this simple head-on shot, Gordon uses hand gesticulations against a white sheet to communicate violent and sensual emotions.

4. Gary Hill, Blind Spot (2003)

Running time: 12 minutes 27 seconds

A brief encounter in the street with a man in a southern French city that has a large North African population is slowed down, forcing the viewer into an intimate relationship with the subject and the shifting emotions in his face.

5. Pierre Huyghe, .05 (2003)

Running time: 5 minutes

Huyghe's conceptual film references Andy Warhol's Empire State and pays homage to Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters by incorporating the Devil's Tower monument made famous in the film. Huyghe splits the screen in half, creating a mood of suspense, as we wait for a correction that never takes place.

6. Joan Jonas, Waltz (2003)

Running time: 6 minutes 24 seconds

Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th-century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology into its narrative alongside spontaneously occurring events.

7. Isaac Julien, Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) (2003)

Running time: 4 minutes 38 seconds

The stunning, color-saturated images that make up this work refer to the African Diaspora and the quest to find roots in a New World.

8. William Kentridge, Automatic Writing (2003)

Running time: 2 minutes 38 seconds

Kentridge's hauntingly beautiful series of animated black and whitedrawings brings viewers into the artist's unconscious, using surrealist techniques to explore the point where writing and drawing intersect.

9. Paul McCarthy, WGG (Wild Gone Girls) (2003)

Running time: 5 minutes 20 seconds

Depicting a sailing party gone wrong, McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in contemporary culture.

10. Pipilotti Rist, I Want to See How You See (2003)

Running time: 4 minutes 48 seconds

Rist explores the macrocosm of humanity in a video, art, and music collaboration.

A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world.

11. Anri Sala, Time After Time (2003)
Running time: 5 minutes 22 seconds
The details in Sala's oblique and barely moving frame stimulates the viewers' visual and auditory capacity by forcing them to concentrate on a single puzzling image until its essence is revealed in an unexpected flash of light.