Author Archives: michael

Holographic Wainscoting

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The Butter Skin Outtakes
The Butter Skin Outtakes (2006, 12MB, 1:16 min.)


Haloweb
Haloweb (2006, 14.2MB, 2:04 min.)

Work from Carl Burton, trading as holographicwainscoting.
I love this stuff. It’s strange but not simply strange, you know,
not just something you grin or raise an eyebrow at and then move on.
There’s substance & there’s an austere lyricism (if that ‘s not too much of an oxymoron)
to the substance too.
We’re going to do three posts on this work & you’ll see an interesting evolution
from the first two to the final one.

Telemak – Aegis Breakmix

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Aegis Breakmix
Aegis Breakmix (2007, 75MB, 4:33 min.)

Stunning tour de force of editing by telemakfilms.

Fascinating how disparate footage can be rendered
coherent & lent such enormous forward momentum…

2 from Sam Renseiw

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Sam Renseiw #1
Basic sound techniques involve pruning (2007, 3.53MB, 52 sec)

Sam Renseiw #2
On interference fringe patterns (2007, 11.5MB, 1:38 min.)

From the excellent Spacetwo:Patalab of Sam Renseiw.
Smart, wry poetry.

Anthony Rousseau

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Bodyparts
Bodyparts (2006, 5.6MB, 1:00 min)

Visualcut
Visualcut#1 (2006, 6.8MB, 1:15 min)

There seems to be a very lively experimental online video scene
in France. There’s lots of widely varying work but much of it seems to
be characterised by an enormous ‘confidence in the image’
& a concomitant richly visual & unbuttoned approach to dealing
with said image, free of conceptualist trammeling.
Anthony Rousseau’s work exemplifies these ( in my book at least) virtues.

Harmony Korine again

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Living Proof
Living Proof (2006, 10.9MB, 3:12 min.)

Sunday
Sunday(2006, 13.9MB, 4 min.)

Further bizarreries from Harmony Korine, he of Kids, Gummo
& Julian Donkey Boy fame.
First up, a vid for Cat Power’s Living Proof from her current album ‘The Greatest’.
Then one for the great Sonic Youth.
He has good taste in music, it cannot be gainsaid.
Ooh!… & look who’s home but not quite alone…

A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (1)

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waiting on bob
waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.)

move this rock
move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.)

stick like snakes
stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.)

Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’
by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.
This is very smart work indeed – it references, or better evokes, ideas & precedents
& techniques from all over world culture high & low & I’m sure this is conscious.
The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5’s short history of virtual hiking,
featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all & the dry
keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional
romanticism about nature & the landscape to sneak back in.
Not a criticism. Me, I love it.

They’re back!

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The Postman walks with a spring in his step –They’re back!–
The little girl with freckles & pigtails tumbles joyfully headlong
down the street –They’re back!–
Even Fr. Pinault seems to twinkle ever so slightly..
Now, old Cottard stumbles cantankerously into the boulangerie.
-I don’t understand why everyone’s so damned cheerful today-
-Why, M’sieu, haven’t you heard? They’re back!
The FluxFilms are back on UbuWeb! –

#7
#7 (1966, 5.7MB, 34 sec.)

George Maciunas: ‘Ten Feet’

#25
#25 (1966, 3.5MB, 21 sec.)

George Landow/Owen Land: ‘The Evil Faerie’ (although
Landow/Land denies authorship – it has been suggested
this piece was actually made by John Cavanaugh)

#26
#26 (1965, 7.8MB, 47 sec.)

Paul Sharits: ‘Sears Catalogue 1-3′

Don Whitaker – Wall of Grey

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timetwister
timetwister (2005, 6.6MB, 1:57 min.)

skaterpede
skaterpede (2005, 15.2MB, 4:23 min.)

This guy, Don Whitaker, is simply the poet of the skate park.
He is just a natural & wonderful movie maker: even if you have
no interest whatsoever in the subject matter I defy you not
to be won-over, to be enchanted, by this work
Curators/gallerists out there -what a show these
vids would make!

Sarah Garmisa

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Pan
Pan (2006, 10MB, 5:04 min)

Lesbians
Lesbians (2006, 5.7MB, 2:34 min)

Interesting work from young artist Sarah Garmisa.
I’m personally not entirely convinced by Pan although it clearly
cost serious thought & effort & doesn’t lack technical merit.
Lesbians though, is an unqualified success:
witty, precise & executed with no little panache.
I look forward to seeing more.

Diffraction

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Diffraction
Diffraction (2006, 22.3 MB, 5:23 min.)

Scratching & video: two good things in one package.
DJ GKUT & Brendan Dawes of Manchester, UK, based
outfit magneticNorth run mN’s video-control-by-vinyl tools
through their paces at FACT in Liverpool.
More than neat.