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Ash Sechler – 2 movies

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Transformation (2009, 15.5MB, 1:18 min)


Representation of Memory (2006, 75.4MB, 2:22 min)

Clearly there is something in the water in Athens, Georgia giving us,
as it has, John Michael Boling & Javier Morales, John Crowe,
Dan Osborne, Brantley Jones and now Ash Sechler.
Hmm – The School of Athens, Georgia.
There’s no common style but there is a certain sensibility which,
curiously, pervades the quiet meditative stuff as well as the more
out-there and bizarre – it’s a species of wryness combined with an
eye for the casually arresting, odd and beautiful.
It’s exemplified here in both these rather good pieces, though I particularly
like Representation of Memory.

Sam Renseiw – Blind Voodles

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Blind Voodle #1 (2009, 57.4MB, 6:25 min)


Blind Voodle #2 (2009, 31.6MB, 3:35 min)

Oneiric gorgeousness from the magnificent Sam Renseiw.

Talan Memmott – land/wave

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land/wave:02.08 (2009, 39MB, 1:10 min)


land/wave:03.02 (2009, 42MB, 1:17 min)

These pieces stand in stark and interesting contrast to the
magic realist whimsy of Memmott’s collabs with Sandy Florian
which we showed here a few months back.
I’d be interested to know whether these new works are completely,
as it were, synthesised or whether, lurking at the back,
there’s some real world footage.
The first piece puts me in mind quite forcibly of a journey by train
(as if the abstract shapes and images had been piled upon some
manipulated footage thereof..)
Dunno.
Good though! –striking. Talan?

Dan Osborne – Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men

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Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men(2009, 86MB, 4:49min)

Splendid bit of drôlerie from Dan Osborne, whose work
we’ve featured here before and certainly will again.
It’s funny, sure, but as with a good deal of Osborne’s work it
treads an interesting line between funny bone and heartstring.
Oh..alright..maybe heartstring is a bit strong but there’s a
certain, and a rather touching, melancholy lurking here.

Also – what is it about Mariah Carey and art video on the net?

Door by Lewis LaCook

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Door (2006, 3.6MB, 1:00 min)

From Lewis LaCook.
Like his poetry – fragile, complex & perfectly judged
( or – better – judged according to careful & complex
personal criteria, of which we kind of get a glimpse,
an intuition).
Lingers in the mind long afterwards.

Sondheim

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laminanimal (2006, 8.3MB, 1:18 min)

Strange.
Strange & beautiful.
Strange & beautiful & nightmarish & funny & exhilarating.
From Alan Sondheim.

Juanjo Fern

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Sine Nights
Sine Nights (2004, 3.1MB, 1:08 min)

Deconstruccion Natural
Deconstruccion Natural #1 (2003, 7.9MB, 1:39 min)

Two nicely contrasting bits of work, both evidencing
a well developed visual sensibility from Barcleona based
artist & VJ Juanjo Fern

Red Shoe Delivery Service

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Red Shoe Delivery Service (2006, 18.6.5MB, 3:10 min)

Red Shoe Delivery Service is a group of artists who take
up residence in various cities & go around in a vehicle
offering people rides & um.. while people are in the vehicle
they get to look at art & uh

Henry Gwiazda is a Star

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claudia and paul 4:55 pm (2008, 34.6MB, 1:00 min)


there’s whispering (2008, 21.6MB, 3:45 min)

Rather lovely work from Henry Gwiazda.
Claudia and Paul , in particular, is a shivers down the spine affair for me.
I’d been vaguely aware of Gwiazda before but never really explored his work
– I will definitely be looking carefully in future.

Millie Niss – Commercial Spots

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Commercial Spots (2006, 8.4MB)

Archive sutff from the Sporkworld stable, this time from Millie Niss & it has
all the hallmarks that make Sporkworld work such an unalloyed pleasure.
Manifestly bullshit free, apparently straightforward but with onion like layers,
this one wonderfully highlights Niss