Along a hallway is a room containing Jordan Wolfson's bleak, ethereal video installation "Infinite Melancholy," which uses the actor Christopher Reeve's name and the sound of "Getting to Know You" being picked out with excruciating slowness and ineptness on a piano to discreetly conjure up the timeless horror of paralysis.
He added that "I have a few ideas of the future, which are rather dark" and they are instilled into the subtly bleak music video.
The keynote began on a bleak note as video screens ran a painfully forced cover version of the classic 1979 Buggles song "Video Killed The Radio Star".
From moody Michael Keaton to yet moodier Christian Bale, as well as the violently bleak Arkham Asylum video game, Batman is defined by conflict and self-doubt, where his idealism is constantly jaded by evil.
Manhunt (Rockstar, 2003) Surely one of the most bleak and transgressive mainstream video games ever made, Rockstar's stealth murder sim has the lead character attempting to buy his freedom by carrying out a range of gangland killings for an anonymous client called The Director.
"This music video for 'Bleak Love' is our chance to realize through the visual artistry of some very talented people the universal feeling of un-requited love," the sisters write on their Kickstarter page.
In LAYERS we dug deep into Rare Times' "No One's Looking Out", we said farewell to Amon Tobin's ISAM show, looked at the design studio behind Dita Von Teese's 3D-printed discoveredcovered the bleak, toilsome world of video game Cart Life, and explored modular design with Aranda\Lasch.
Over the summer I watched the videos – 11 bleak hours of filmed abuse.
The 50-second video shows bleak-looking pictures of empty storefronts in the city and ends — like many of Mr. Romney's ads — with Mr. Obama saying, "If I don't have this done in three years, then this is going to be a one-term proposition".
The first video envisions a bleak future of lost nomadic livelihoods and an expansion of the tent cities in Ulan Bator, swelled by herders who could not keep their herds.
