Taly and Russ Johnson

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Taly and Russ Johnson’s work is a mixture of video, photography, collage and book art. Taly is a Film and TV graduate of New York University, was born in Israel and has directed and produced several short narrative films. Russ, a Detroit native and a Cooper Union graduate, worked with the non-profit video art organization Raindance Foundation and has been showing media art since 1984.

Their videos have been shown in festivals and galleries from New York; Linz, Austria; Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Tel Aviv, Israel and even McMurdo Station in Antarctica

Known for their brief abstract videos including the ghostly tribute to Nam June Paik "Nam June Paik's Fingerprints" that was finished (unknown to the artists) on the eve of Paik’s death and presented in the Vienna Short Film Festival as an installation in 2006.

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FilmThreat review by by David Finkelstein http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=9129

This week [February 19 - 26, 2006] in avant garde cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw31/0680.html

http://www.talyandruss.com/index.html official homepage

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