Proust - The Interview (2009, 75MB, 5:52 min.)

The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire) MTAA.
more vids here.

Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)

from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.

The Fish (date unknown, 754KB, 1:12 min)

The Fish

dead.
Repeated
evidence has proved that it can live
on what cannot revive
its youth. The sea grows old in it.

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Don’t know who made the film or wrote
the music.
I can scarcely make out the images
on this tiny and brutally compressed file.
Nonetheless I find it - battered, uncertain,
almost found object like, with that incredible
certainty of tone bestriding it, deeply affecting.

Further reading & links on Marianne Moore.

Portrait as QTVR File (2009, 1MB, QTVR)

by Michelle Ceja

Speed Reenactment w IP Relay (2009, 10MB, 2:34 min)

The dynamic between the two characters in Joel Holmberg’s Speed Reenactment w IP Relay is something like a London tourist trying to get a Queen’s Guard to flinch; but markedly more dynamic and impressive thanks to the hint of excitement and sass that arises in the operator’s voice, specifically when demanding a ransom of $3.7 million. And such a reaction comes from an operator whom we can only assume deals with frequent unoriginal prank calls, giving the piece a kind of insider approval that elevates it above mere tomfoolery. Holmberg revitalizes the long history of crank calls with conceptual soundness, illustrating the mode of inquiry of many a smart-ass net/video/new media artist: How can I get a laugh out of used-up pop entertainment without getting up from my computer?

If you enjoy this, Eddo Stern’s animation of a found script in Best Flamewar Ever should also please.

Film Number 130 (2009, 7MB, 1:45 min)

Film Number 108 (2009, 7.5MB, 1:33 min)

Film Number 109 (2009, 6MB, 1:16 min)

We posted on his work early on.
We - I - was a tad ungenerous then, I think.
There’s a really substantial, coherent and well
executed body of work now, of which here are three
good examples.
In particular I very much like #130 .
The formalism I was slighty sniffy about before
proves to be a central & very fruitful device and
unlocks considerable beauty.
Many more here.

2012 (2009, 5MB, 1:50 min.)

by Oliver Laric.

Scandal - trailer (1950, 7.7MB, 1:38 min)

The Idiot - trailer (1951, 6.3MB, 1:22 min)

Don’t know whether these are the original, or re-edited, trailers
but they’re wonderful, wonderful.
Watch and marvel.
I know neither of these films but I can’t wait to get my sweaty
palms on the DVDs from Eureka Cinema’s Masters of Cinema series.

2011 (2009, 7MB, 2:08 min.)

by Oliver Laric.

Robot and Spokesperson (2009, 1MB, 3 secs)

Somalian Pirates (2009, 2MB, 5 secs)

Robot and Engineer (2009, 1MB, 2 secs)

I really really like Daniel Osborne’s work.
It’s original, witty and there’s more to it than
perhaps at first meets the eye (and he
also has the great virtue, in my view, of not doggedly
ploughing a single furrow in a kind of branding effort,
a practice which renders so much work dull and
predictable. He’s his own person. Good)
In particular what he has been doing with sound
recently is bold and revealing.
Here he adds sound to still news images.
Not only is it good work but I for one learned something
technical from it too.
[pedantry]Surely, though, the “spokesperson” is Angela Merkel,
the German chancellor?[/pedantry]

More of Daniel’s recent movies.