German-born artist Christian Jankowski, who now divides his time between Berlin and New York, is among the best of the new species of cine-conceptualists. His film and video projects are hard to explain but easy to watch. They're convoluted, self-referential, touching, awkward, and sometimes hilarious. You could say he creates a behavioral art of social interaction and cinematic process, or that he stages collisions of incompatible media systems and belief systems. You could claim his work has a kind of site-specificity that is more about situation, context, and conventions than place. You could even call it a symbiotic head trip involving mutual exploitation. To put it really simply, Jankowski... More >>>