THE POOOL
live video performance [1996-1999]

Co-directors: Benton Bainbridge, Nancy Meli Walker and Angie Eng revive experimental cinema as a live event with The Poool.

The Poool brought the immediacy of music to cinema by playing tube to digi-cams, video "stitchers" and assorted "props". On stage the audience viewed the transformation of visual matter being manipulated with video cameras, video effects, pre-recorded footage and live action. The Poool collaborated to achieve a visual language that describes journeys through psychological states. In capturing basic human emotion of anxiety, fear, alienation, they investigated the world through delicate scrutiny.

External Video Links:
sample clips
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'is warm' The Whitney Museum 1999


Nancy Meli Walker, Angie Eng, Benton Bainbridge,
photo by Tim Sager

Parascape, The Kitchen, 1998