Pere Marquette (2007, 10.4MB, 1:59 min)
Well I’m a fool for anything to do with trains, but this gem
from Jennifer Proctor is outstanding; both
heart-rendingly beautiful & a lesson in craft:
it’s what she does & it’s what she doesn’t.
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Mark E Smith Reads the Football Results
Mark E Smith Reads the Football Results (2005, 12.7MB, 7:14 min.)
God-like genius & professional curmudgeon Mark E Smith
of The Fall reads the football (OK – soccer to
about two thirds of you) results on the BBC in 2005.
The full glory of this possibly only totally comprehensible to
Brits of a certain age but stay with it – the last third is
a hoot.
Ice Hockey with Max Herman
‘Perseverance (fragment)’ (2006, 35 MB, 3:05 min.)
The Rhizome mailing list became a more predictable & somehow
less exciting place when wit, polymath & provocateur Max Herman
hung up his mouse for a while. He’s back there now & he’s here too,
with some ice hockey action for your delectation, being a section
from a longer work entitled Perseverance.
Says Max, “If I can choose keywords, can they be ‘hockey, millennium,
glasperlenspiel, perseverance, history?’ ”
Of course they can, Max, of course.
(PS Watch the movie, it’s quite lovely)
William Kentridge
We brought you an extract of this piece by
William Kentridge a while back .
Now here’s the whole piece, courtesy of Lumen Eclipse.
Not only is it exquisitely made, you would have
to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it.
On Screen Chemistry
‘This is a cartoon representation of the process
used to link amino acids to make a protein.’
Flavoprotein (2006, 1.3MB, 4 sec loop)
‘This is a model of one of the proteins used
in the electron transport chain. Basically, where
we get most of our energy to survive as living organisms.’
Bilayer (2006, 3.3MB, 3 sec loop)
‘This is the general structure of our cell membranes.’
Beautiful animations -teaching materials- of chemical
processes & structures by Professor James K. Hardy
of the University of Akron. Thanks to Professor Hardy for
the accompanying explanations of what each animation
actually represents.
The whole series is a delight.
Primo Levi – Return to Auschwitz
Return to Auschwitz – clip (1982, 1.95MB, 18 secs)
A tiny fragment today, but oh what a fragment.
An extract from an Italian television documentary
about a visit to the site of the Auschwitz extermination camp,
where he had previously been incarcerated for a year,
by the great Italian writer Primo Levi, who died 20 years ago this last April.
Levi wrote the indispensable memoir of the Holocaust,
‘If This is a Man’ ( in the US called ‘Survival in Auschwitz’).
Apparently this documentary used to be available on the net in its entirety.
If anyone can point us to a copy we’ll post the whole thing.
This tiny clip is nonetheless a key one. NEVER AGAIN!
Two by Doron
Sorin (2007, 39.7MB, 4:21 min.)
Elijah (2007, 37.4MB, 4:07 min.)
One of the great pleasures of working with Doron on dvblog is the sneak
previews I get of his new work.
It never fails to astonish and move me.
Here are two recent pieces, both, loosely speaking, portraiture.
When I think or write about Doron’s work two words insist on themselves time and time again.
One is mysterious and the other is humane.
Watch these pieces and see why, then go and check out all of Doron’s work.
Activismo de bella luminusidad / Luminously beautiful activism
Antonio (2005, 43.2MB, 3:19 min)
His Dead (2005, 14.8MB, 2:14 min)
The Only Place (2006, 22.3MB, 3:12 min)
The Califas Journal es un “sitio de video
independiente sobre pol
More Scritti Politti
Boom There She Was (1988, 19.6MB, 4:12 min)
Hypnotize (1985, 7.91MB, 3:26 min)
More stuff, both wonderful & ineffably strange, from the great Scritti Politti.
I defy you not to be utterly exhilirated ( at the same time as hating yourself a little bit)
by premise & execution both of BTSW…and…
what is going on with the see-saw stuff at the end of the
Hypnotize vid!?
Video makers of the world, the race is on to rehabilitate & assimilate this move
into our vocabulary..
Guthrie Lonergan
Says Tom Moody: Recommended: Guthrie Lonergan’s 9 Short Music Videos.
Reminiscent of BEIGE’s cheesy blue (green?) screen vids,
each is built around some corporate sound
(ringtone, Microsoft boot-up noise, DVD intro)
that craps up our daily lives. Also good:
