Hovering Proxies / installation

You are surrounded by the late summer in Tandun's garden in downtown Jakarta, where two dogs, Ziggy and Uma, scuffle on the dry grass. Ziggy, the husky, is a bit crazy from the heat...

Purfled Promises / 10 min / HD video and screening performance

While you were watching the beads fall, the screen itself, drawn by imperceptible force, has started to move towards the audience, and is now pushing, unnoticeably slow, over the front rows of the auditorium.

Leona Alone / 6min / HD video and installation

Variations of stained glass screens erected around the neighborhood of Leona Drive, Willowdale, Toronto.

Ambedkar Park and Marlene Pavillion / installation

The stories of two historic monuments, staged as a conversation.

Green Dolphin / video / 15min.

"Bill was introduced to us by our neighbour then, she invited us to have breakfast at their place. This is where we met Bill because he was also a house guest at that time. I remember it was the first time I've seen porridge, it was prepared for him being a foreigner, and then he had toast and bacon - I still remember that because it looked so different."

Mount Shasta / 16mm film / 8min.

The puppet show presented here is a previsualisation of a part of a script I'm working on at the moment. First, let me pitch the storyline of the scenario to you:

Five Thinking Hats / 16mm film and screening performance / 13min

The shadows of five sculptural hats in the audience interact with the projection of a stylized film portrait.

Two Half Reasons / installation and performance

Objects and audience as decoys for a transforming mise en scene.

I Hate Papa / video / 3 min

with Alex Wolfson. Distributed by arsenal experimental, Berlin.

Fuze, Swivel, Shrivel, Squiggle. / DVD and booklet

Four shortfilms by Oliver Husain
DVD, PAL, Stereo, Regional Code free,
Format 4:3 & 16:9, Running Time approx. 53min.
Including 24 page full colour booklet and a special hidden bonus video!

available at:

a-musik, Kleiner Griechenmarkt 28-30, D-50676 Cologne

pro qm, Alte Schoenhauser Strasse 48, D-10119 Berlin

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

To purchase titles for library and educational use, please contact vtape, Toronto.