Husband and wife artist team Jennifer and Kevin McCoy make brilliant combination movie-sculptures. They set up a series of little sets with miniatures and models, arrange lipstick cameras on each of the sets, and then rig up a computer system to edit between them with the proper timing to create short films, which are projected in the gallery.
[Some samples of their work, including video] They seem obsessed with movies, television and their watching. They have a whole series of works that reproduce scenes from movies and show the couple themselves watching them from theatre seats ("Our Second Date," on the page I just linked, features a very inventive re-creation of a scene from a Goddard film). Horror Chase, though not a miniature piece, loops a scene from Evil Dead in a way that makes it both spookier and more intimate somehow.
Interestingly, they've posted a bunch of Flickr photosets with images of various of their installations and other pieces. That's the first use I've seen of Flickr by a mainstream artist.
Tagged: McCoy, miniature, film, Robot Film, art, installation,