"AL and AL investigate the
shaping forces of fantasy and
reality: they both create dream
worlds and stand back in their
art to draw attention to their
power over us, plunging the
spectator into a virtual world
of dizzy dimensions."
Marina Warner
Writer of Phantasmagoria
"AL and AL's work evokes
memories for me of Jerry
Cornelius stories, J.G. Ballard
books, The Prisoner, and my
own best dreams."
Grant Morrison
Writer of Batman & Superman
"AL and AL’s adaption of the
Icarus myth is a mutlimedia
masterpiece."
ABC News
"I found AL and AL’s film the
most impressive component.
A finely crafted live action
and digital animation that
richly conveys Brian Greene’s
clever updating of the ancient
myth of Icarus."
Tim Smith
The Baltimore Sun
"The highlight of the evening
was the adaptation of Icarus,
presented as a film directed by
AL and AL accompanied by an
orchestra playing music by
Philip Glass. A live performance
CGI hybrid shot with a blue
screen, the dreamscape
dazzled with glowing images of
planets and stars."
Wall street Journal
"AL and AL's films transfer
audiences into dreamscapes
that are beautiful and horrible
at the same time, whose
dizzying perspectives and
glorious exotic scenery
resemble those of the most
ambitious science fiction
movies."
Bob Dickinson
Art Monthly
"AL and AL ferry us into outer
space, they create dazzling
effects that illuminate."
Philip Fisher
The British Theatre Guide
"Quite unlike anything else
you've ever seen, AL and AL
inhabit their own special
effects landscape offering a
fertile view on sexuality
and mysticism."
Attitude Magazine
"The experimental film duo
AL and AL are among the most
startling new moving image
artists at work."
Gareth Evans
Vertigo
"AL and AL’s Icarus is a visual
space odyssey."
Anne Midgette
The Washington Post
"If Tarkovsky made computer
generated images they'd feel
like AL and AL's live action
sci-fi Perpetual Motion."
Time Out London
"AL and AL's hard Drive is a
graphic vision of a future world
of cybersex."
British Film Institute
"The cryptically named Al and Al
met 10 years ago while visiting
Derek Jarman's garden on the
shingle at Dungeness in Kent.
Clearly, it was a highly
auspicious meeting for the film
makers, given Jarman's
reputation as a man who
almost single-handedly
kept British art cinema afloat."
Peter Chapman
The Independan
"As Brian Greene's story and
Philip Glass' music progresses,
AL and AL's subliminal film
plays out behind the
orchestra. A masterpiece in
it's own right, blending
beautiful imagery, it is hard
to do justice to AL and AL's
ability to create stunning
images with words alone."
Caz Knight
Felix online
"Before AL and AL, Yves Klein
was the ambassador of an
immaterial blue realm that
aimed to be the highest art
form. AL and AL work inside
a blue screen studio. They
create virtual universes that
range from minimalism to the
digital baroque."
Edwin Carels
Curator MuKHA
"AL and AL’s films refers to
science fiction elements of
transfiguration and rebirthing.
They use metaphors of the
double and duplication to
investigate the notion of
identity and imitation in media.
Synthetic landscapes and
interiors are impressively filled
with moving shadows and
highly reflective surfaces."
Yvonne Spielmann
Leonardo online
"AL and AL’s cutting edge film
Icarus at the Edge of Time
transports you into deep
space."
Herald Scotland
"The film’s by AL and AL
capture and entrance the
viewer and jettison you into
another world."
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
Art in Liverpool
"Brimming with inventiveness
AL and AL have created a world
of simulated realities which
is truly unique."
Sarah Griffin
Film Ireland
"AL and AL give you a real
modern psychedelic
experience."
Marc Lamothe
Fantasia
"It is the time-shifting
qualities of AL and AL’s films
which pull apart our own
assumptions as to how we
have received, decoded and
understood images."
Mike Stubbs
FACT director
"With AL and AL’s films we
are constantly reminded we
are watching a virtual reality,
but forced to confront how
much of contemporary culture
exists virtually and how this
has a tangible effect on our
lives."
Matt Bochenski
Little White Lies
"Men in uniforms, naked men,
men in tailored suits, AL and
AL's Wedding Video is a
macabre vision acted out by
military guards and masked
preachers of good morals as if
made in collusion with George
Orwell and William Burroughs."
Rotterdam Film Festival
"AL and AL's weather forecast
abandons the daily
performance of rational
certainty, and faces the void
of helplessness surrounding
the ancient questions of
nature. Supernatural insight
over high and low pressure is
joined by irrational predictions
of divine punishment."
Edwin Carels
Curator MuKHA
“Putting the emotion back into
science, Greene's Icarus myth
is richly supplemented by a film
by the filmmakers AL and AL.”
Saswato Das
New Scientist
"AL and AL's Perpetual Motion
is a disturbing and evocative
exploration of science, God
and energy."
The Observer
"AL and AL's Perpetual Motion
looks and sounds glorious with
a cast including the Lamb of
God and Britney Spears." The Guardian |
