How to Tell When a Relationship is Over (2003, 5.6MB, 1:30min.)
A micro-movie of under 90 seconds for
The Encounters Festival 2003.
Directed by Tony Roche.
Essen Dortmund Lederhosen by Rick Silva
Essen Dortmund Lederhosen (2005, 36MB, 6:11 min.)
Rick Silva a.k.a – camoufleur, created a musical video
for the former duo-member band – Zeugwart Hallbauer.
Sam Renseiw – Belt Crossing
Belt Crossing (2009, 9.1MB, 1:04 min)
Absolutely exquisite 2009 Lumière from Sam Renseiw
Constellation – Covent Garden Winter Lights
Constellation (2008, 17MB, 3 min.)
“Commissioned by Covent Garden, United Visual Artists lit up the market
halls of Covent Garden with a responsive light installation. Launched as
the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden the
installation featured 600 custom-designed mirrored LED tubes hanging
above the entire Covent Garden market space.
The volumetric arrangement of the tubes created a canvas in which three
dimensional light formations were made possible. Constellation was also
individually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the
installation an intimate connection with the public.”
United Visual Artists are a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation.
Aleksandra Domanovic – La Biennale (Dictum Ac Factum)
La Biennale (Dictum Ac Factum) (2009, 63MB, 1:40 min)
Nicely made, kind of de Chirico-ish in its
sense-of-place-that-never-was & the way it
haunts you long after viewing, this piece from
Aleksandra Domanovic featured as part of the
Padiglione Internet of the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Oh –Dictum ac Factum – ‘No Sooner Said than Done’, apparently.
Two from Lewis LaCook
modern life (2005, 3.6MB, 3:13 min)
grass spider (2005, 6.1MB, 2:55 min)
2005 work from Lewis LaCook.
He seems to have dropped out of sight.
A shame, he made startling and splendid work in a number of media.
Update: I looked – he’s here and .
Good.
Pieces of OiZ
Christoph Brunner – schwarzenbergplatz (2005, 9.8MB, 0:46)
Christoph Brunner – schwarzenbergplatz 2 (2005, 13.5MB, 1:03)
Orte in Zeiten is a filmmaking process conceived
by Christoph Brunner that continuously re-exposes film
to make surreal loops of space and time.
These two clips were taken during the development
of OiZ, which roughly translates to “places in time”.
Timo Vaittinen – 3 Stop Motion Works
Breakblast (2008, 7.7MB, 1:01 min, silent)
Breakblast (2007, 4.9MB, 55 secs, silent)
Over the fence and here we go (2006, 4.4MB, 49 secs, silent)
Three stop motion pieces, economical &
elegant all, from Finnish artist Timo Vaittinen.
I like the (justified) confidence their silence
demonstrates.
LOMEG_ROM – Now Is Not 2009
LOMEG_ROM – Now Is Not 2009 (2009, 91.2MB, 26:28)
Absolutely stunning docu-voodle from 2010 by “b.k.” of Oslo’s
LOMEG_ROM (sadly, note the retrospectively rather
plaintive ‘we’ll soon be posting again’, dated 2010).
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.
Locusts
Emergence – Locusts (2008, 233.8MB, 11:19)
From celebrated MC Invincible, a docu-music-video
about the history of gentrification and capitalism’s
destruction of communities in Detroit.
Video features several local activists, including
Grace Lee Boggs and (full disclosure) my good friend
Ron Scott.
This intense collaboration gives me chills every
time I watch it.
I’ll let the rest speak for itself.
Sam Easterton – Animal Vegetable Video
Ardvark (2001, 1.6MB, 15 sec.)
Scorpion (2001, 1.1MB, 10 sec.)
Tumbleweeds (2001, 1.2MB, 10 sec.)
Since 1988, Sam Easterton has been using tiny
‘helmet mounted’ cameras to create an archive of videos filmed
from the perspective of plants and animals.
By Mica
Burroughs, Balch & Gysin – The Cut-Ups
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.
Body Magic – Javier Morales and John Michael Boling
Body Magic (2007, 26MB, 2:25 min.)
From the old gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
Music by Javier.
Jim Punk & Antonio Mendoza – Dysleksic
dudeboat (2012, 2 MB, 11 secs)
misteriosoxxx (2012, 4 MB, 41 secs)
Slightly traducing the spirit of the project where
the two artists mix, hack and otherwise mutate
and abut up to 9 videos simutaneously in the same web page
as a (very welcome) online adjunct to the current Drawing Surrealism
show at LACMA, we’re featuring a couple of the component parts.
(Because we love both these artists and we want to publicise
everything they do, which is never, ever, dull.)
To view it properly go (and keep on going back) to the
project page and to learn more go here.
Will Goss – Penmanship
Penmanship (2010, 75 MB,2:59 min)
Genius.
Is that an actor, or frighteningly, is it appropriated documentary
of some normally little viewed, fringe sort?
The Good Consumer – Neil Boorman
The Good Consumer (2008, 18.2MB, 5:27)
In honor of , a satirical video about
being a good consumer. BND falls on Nov. 28 in North
America, but everyone else “celebrates” on Nov. 29.
So this whether this video is right on time for you or
a day early, we’re still pretty sure you will appreciate
the message.
Made by Neil Boorman from Bonfire of the Brands.
Will Goss – Failure is an Option
Failure is an Option (2010, 53 MB, 2:03 min)
More rum goings-on from the prodigously talented Will Goss.
Is that the Kalevala?
More on Thursday.
Kino Da!
Kino Da! (1981, 5.6 MB,1:42 min )
Kino Da! , a wonderful portrait of the poet and communist Jack Hirschman
by the American experimental filmmaker Henry Hills is just one of the Hills films
that can be viewed at . More about Hills and his work see – henryhills.com
PS There is a marvellous DVD of Hill’s work now available. I have a copy and I
unreservedly recommend it. I come back to it time and time again.
Matt McCormick and The Shins
Matt McCormick – The Past and Pending (2003, 34MB, 5:17)
Matt McCormick – Australia (2007, 29MB, 3:57)
Matt McCormick is one of those heroes I never knew I had.
He makes insanely tight music videos and local commercials
around the Portland area, in addition to being a friend to hipster
bands and a musician himself.
These are two award-winning videos for the band The Shins,
who I’ve posted from before, though I have no affiliation or
particular love for them.
They just end up extra special on film, especially through
McCormick’s visions of A-Team remakes and leisurely photo drives.
David Olmos//José M. Sánchez-Verdú – Paisajes del placer y de la culpa
Paisajes del placer y de la culpa #1 (2008, 119MB, 7:49 min)
Paisajes del placer y de la culpa #2 (2008, 74MB, 4:52 min)
José M. Sánchez-Verdú is a Spanish composer who creates richly textured and
sensuous music in an uncompromisingly contemporary idiom.
His richness is no frippery but properly fought for and won.
Here is a short movie, in two parts, made by David Olmos, about whom I can find
no information whatsoever, which blends a fictional narrative with footage of
an orchestral performance of one of Sánchez-Verdú’s works
Paisajes del placer y de la culpa – Landscapes
of Pleasure and Guilt.
The film is undoubtedly skillfully made but I remain slightly agnostic
about its premise or even necessity; however no such doubts about some
of the most extraordinary music of recent years.
I grabbed the film from YouTube and as you can see the image quality isn’t great
although in some ways the graininess appeals and seems apposite to the subject.
David Askevold – Nova Scotia Fires
Nova Scotia Fires (1969, 5MB, 3:00 min)
I hadn’t, to my shame, heard of the late David Askevold until the Camden Arts Centre
put on a beautifully put together and gripping retrospective last year.
Here’s one of the pieces on show then. It’s not particularly great quality plus
it’s in a tiny window but it does conjure (perhaps an appropriately Askevoldian
choice of word) something of the impact -witty, smart and otherwordly – of his work.
* and there’s a good review of that here.
More from Martin Rychlicki
TyryTyry (2012, 133MB, 2:06 min)
Nice bit of work from Polish film maker and musician Martin Rychlicki, who also
trades as DJ Gacmaster & GacPax,
for a track by DJ Investor.
We’ve featured Rychlicki’s rather winning work here before and no doubt will again.
Gabriel Klasmer – Efes One
Slapstick documentation of artist Gabriel Klasmer doing
his processed abstract paintings in 2001.
Gareth Long – Platoon / Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
Gareth Long – Platoon / Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (2007, 60.6MB, 14:20)
Lovely 2007 piece from Gareth Long,
– an intervention into the English subtitles of Oliver Stone
Samuel Beckett – Quadrat I + II
Bonnie Prince Billy Again
Horses (2004, 16.7MB, 4:37 min)
Agnes video by David Shrigley
& Horses by Braden King,
both of them classy bits of work.
There’s a PhD to be had for someone along the lines of
‘The Curatorial Role of the Recording Artist’.
BPB/Will Oldham’s CD cover art never disappoints –
the acme of hip good taste ( though not in a bland way, I think)
– & the same is true of his videos.
I particularly love the projection-within-the vid trope of Horses.
Also -what songs!
Cremaster 1 Trailer
Cremaster 1, Trailer (1995, 34MB, 3:23 min.)
Trailer for Cremaster1 of Matthew Barney‘s Cremaster cycle –
a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five films that
explore processes of creation.
Erica Schreiner – Ohio
Short analog video by Portland based artist Erica Schreiner.
Music by by Prussia.
Albert Nanning – Exit
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…
Guthrie Lonergan – Floor warp 2
Floor warp 2 (2008, 3.7MB, 20 sec.)
By Guthrie Lonergan. More vids here.