modern life (2005, 3.6MB, 3:13 min)

grass spider (2005, 6.1MB, 2:55 min)

Poet/Artist/Programmer Lewis LaCook is a 100% original – his work,
prolific & in a staggering variety of media, can be a bit scattershot
but the range is always from ‘interesting’ to ‘excellent’ .
Here he turns his attention to short videos, and what he makes
is just that little bit different from what anyone else is doing.
My personal favourite is ‘modern life’ with the curious text to
speech soundtrack (poem?) running simultaneously with the
sound of the phone conversation.
Enjoy this hugely confident and creative spirit, allied to a fine disregard
for conventional picture quality, narrative or consistency of shot.
Pure visual poetry.

Lazy Sunday (2005, 15.7MB, 2:22 min.)

“watch this video because it’s really, really funny.”
post by t.whid

Kelly Mark - Crosswalk (2001, 1.2MB, 0:38)

Basketball court sprints at a busy intersection. Man unknown.
From Kelly Mark.

Body Magic (2007, 26MB, 2:25 min.)

From gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.
Music by Javier.

LOMEG_ROM - Now Is Not 2009 (2009, 91.2MB, 26:28)

Absolutely stunning docu-voodle by “b.k.” of Oslo’s
LOMEG_ROM. Just when you think fireworks are
overrated or that you’ve seen it all… I am endlessly
impressed with this duo’s ability to tease out the
nuances of space and time.

We Are Gone (2008, 55.8MB, 2:50 min)

I was drawn to this because of its connection with the
sublime Howe Gelb ( he produced & plays on the album & it’s on
his OW-OM label), but it’s winning beyond that very good intial reason.
Ms Maki’s song & performance are quite lovely in their passionate restraint
& the video, directed by Scott Cudmore & shot by Lee Towndrow on,
I gather, though I’ve lost the link to the page that told me so, the ‘video’
setting of a stills cam, matches the song in passion, restraint & loveliness.
Cudmore and Towndrow pass, with flying colours, a very simple test
-anyone who can’t produce something affecting with the most minimal
of technical resources probably shouldn’t be making movies at all…

The Cut-Ups (clip) (1966, 15.4MB, 1:20 min.)

William Burroughs & co-conspirators made this in 1966.
1966! - could’ve been the day after tomorrow.

Floor warp 2 (2008, 3.7MB, 20 sec.)

By Guthrie Lonergan. More vids here.

Gareth Long - Platoon / Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (2007, 60.6MB, 14:20)

Another lovely piece from Gareth Long.

An intervention into the English subtitles of Oliver Stone’s
Platoon. The regular subtitles have been replaced with text from
Mark Satin’s 1968 underground bestseller Manual for
Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada. The manual – a how-to
for draft dodgers – sold over 65,000 copies by mail from Toronto
and inspired many copies and knock-offs. The intervention into
the film is subtle. The film can still be watched in its standard
form, without subtitles, without a noticeable change. It is only
when the English subtitles are enabled that the intercession is
apparent.

This is the first fourteen minutes only. The entire video is right
under two hours long.

Exit (2008, 48.6MB, 4:50 min)

Says Albert Nanning:

‘I’m a writer (poems mostly) and photographer, living and working
in Amsterdam. My age is 41. See also. The last five years I’ve made
so many pictures due to the digital workflow that by accident
I discovered a way to give all those pictures that I don’t use
a kind of meaning by putting them in a clip that I made.
Most pictures are from Amsterdam. I made
the clip with iMovie.’

& nicely it works too…