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Usually using unostentatious settings as stepping-stone footage for the videos – from urban settings, interiors, and forests - the subsequently manipulated and precisely choreographed patterns mirror the concern for formal and cognitive visual rigor. Often palindromic and/or surgically sliced into rhythmic, repetitive footage with careful concern for soundtrack implications, the short pieces reveal, at times, surprising short-circuiting attentive observations from the seemingly banal out-sets. A study in the manipulation of the inconspicuous.
Sam Renseiw

The Direct Language project has ended and can be viewed in its entirety archived below. A selection of the videos is also available as an unlimited edition series of DVDs, unostentatiously packaged in a plain cover with a handwritten label. This can be purchased for a nominal amount to cover materials, handling and postage. Email me for details with "Direct Language DVD" in the subject field.

Title (file size, duration, first posted, location)
Direct Language 1 (6.5 MB, 2:10, 5 December 2005, ourmedia)
Direct Language 2 (9.7 MB, 4:16, 7 December 2005, ourmedia)
Direct Language 3 (2 MB, 3:04, 13 December 2005, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4 (2.7 MB, 2:17, 21 December 2005, ourmedia)
Direct Language 5 (2.5MB, 2:54, 7 January 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 6 (5.4 MB, 2:20, 12 January 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 7 (5.5 MB, 2:25, 13 January 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 8 (1.3 MB, 0:46, 15 February 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 9 (2.1 MB, 1;00, 5 March 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 10 (2.5 MB, 1:25, 25 March 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 11 (1.6 MB, 1:00, 12 April 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 12 (1.9MB, 0:55, 7 May 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 13 (3.7 MB, 1:13, 27 May 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Mixed Language (41.2 MB, 19:45, 25 June 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.1 (2.5 MB, 1:36, 23 July 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.2 (4.3 MB, 2;00, 31 July 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.3 (1.5 MB, 0:42, 2 August 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.4 (6.5 MB, 2:55, 4 August 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.5 (4.8 MB, 3:00, 31 August 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.6 (1 MB, 1:00, 26 June 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.7 (2.9 MB, 1:20, 21 October 2006, www.steven-ball.net)
Direct Language 2.8 (966.48 MB, 0:34, 19 November 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 2.9 (1.5 MB, 0:49, 22 November 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 3.0 (1.5 MB, 0:51, 22 November 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 3.1 (5.2 MB, 2:05, 23 November 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 3.2 (1.7 MB, 0:45, 23 November 2006, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.0 (2.9 MB, 1:17, 21 January 2007, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.1 (1 MB, 00:28, 21 January 2007, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.2 (11.4 MB, 2:00, 9 April 2007, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.3 (22.5 MB, 3:38, 22 April 2007, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.4 (22.5 MB, 3:38, 22 April 2007, ourmedia)
Direct Language 4.5 (7.5 MB, 1:21, 4 May 2007, www.steven-ball.net)