Making Web MVideo by Michael Verdi

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Making Web MVideo (2011, 51 MB, 5:55 min)

“There was a lot of talk this week about WebM video after Google announced
that they were going to drop H.264 support from Chrome. This is huge news
for video makers, especially since Firefox 4 (which supports WebM) is almost done.
I figured it was time to look into WebM encoding tools again.”..

from Michael Verdi.

Joseph Beuys – Soziale Plastik

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Soziale Plastik (1969, 9 MB, 1:47 min)

Joseph Beuys accepts the challenge to expose himself to the anonymous spectator,
in speechless close-up on a video monitor: the artist as

“Next To Heaven” Returns for a Second Season

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DuPont (2011, 25 MB, 2:42 min.)

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Smokey (2011, 25 MB, 2:45 min.)

A couple of previews from Rob Parrish

littlelines by Curt Cloninger

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littlelines (1965, 68 MB, 17:28 min)

A beautiful short experimental piece by Curt Cloninger,
messing around with ffmpeg and – “datamoshing.”.
More from Curt here.

Film by Samuel Beckett with Buster Keaton

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Film (1965, 68 MB, 17:28 min)

Samuel Beckett‘s only venture into the medium of cinema, Film was written
in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964, directed by
Alan Schneider and featuring Buster Keaton. For the shooting Mr.
Beckett made his only trip to America. The film, which has no dialogue,
takes its basis Berkeley’s notion esse est percepti that is, to be is to be perceived.

Omer Fast – The Casting

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Omer Fast – The Casting (2008, 38 MB, 3:29 min)

Omer Fast, discusses his 2008 Whitney Biennial work, The Casting (2007),
a four-channel video featuring a young American army sergeant who recounts
two stories

Studio Banana TV Interviews Shirin Neshat

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Interview with Shirin Neshat (2010, 123 MB, 3:54 min)

Studio Banana TV interviews video artist, moviemaker
and photographer Shirin Neshat.

Omer Golan – Religion

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Religion (2010, 8 MB, 1:28 min.)

“‘Religion’ is based on a language text corpus containing about 140,000 words.
With Cycling74’s Max/Msp/Jitter, I created a virtual canvas for my video that is
covered with random text from the corpus. Then used this canvas to mask a clip
of animation that I’ve prepared for that purpose, allowing only text to appear where
pixels in the original animation were moving. My goal was to give the entire clip
random text textures that are aesthetic, recognizable and unreadable.”
By Omer Golan. Sound collage: Itamar Kav Tal.

Brian Bress – undercover

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undercover (2007, 59 MB, 13:21 min.)

by Brian Bress.

“Toe Jam” by Keith Schofield

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Toe Jam (2009, 23MB, 3:27 min.)

A number of people get naked in “Toe Jam”, The BPA featuring
David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. Directed by Keith Schofield.