Chicago Messenger (1998, 5MB, 2:54 min.)
A short documentary on the joys and hazards of being
a bike messenger in Chicago.
By Tom Frisch.
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Nam June Paik – documenta performance
documenta performance (1977, 6 MB, 1:35 min.)
The 1977 “documenta” show, which became known as the ‘media documenta’,
opened its doors with a live satellite telecast from Kassel.
Nam June Paik appeared together with Charlotte Moorman and used the slot
for a Dadaistic, allusive excursion through his performance and installation works.
from ZKM Videosammlung.
‘ZOOMER’ by Sam Huntley
Zoomer (trailer) (2010, 26MB, 2:24 min.)
ZOOMER is a feature-length documentary about the life of Mary
DeBoutez Zellmer-Fenoglio, an eccentric and charismatic owner
of ‘Zoomer’s Treasures’ in Kansas, USA.
ZOOMER is Sam Huntley‘s first feature-length film and was entirely self-funded.
Buky Schwartz – 2 illusory videos
videoconstructions2 (1978, 5MB, 1:16 min.)
The Chair (1980, 36MB, 9:54 min.)
Buky Schwartz (1932-2009), an Israeli sculptor and video artist
who passed away last year, was known for his deceptive videos
that interplay between illusory appearance and the actual ‘reality’.
The 2 vids here were exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1981.
From the splendid Videoart.net
Opto-Isolator – Golan Levin and Greg Baltus
Opto-Isolator (2007, 6MB, 46 sec.)
“Opto-Isolator inverts the condition of spectatorship by exploring the questions:
“What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this
knowledge, how might they respond to us?” The sculpture presents a solitary
mechatronic blinking eye, at human scale, which responds to the gaze of visitors
with a variety of psychosocial eye-contact behaviors that are at once familiar and
unnerving. Among other forms of feedback, Opto-Isolator looks its viewer directly
in the eye; appears to intently study its viewer’s face; looks away coyly if it is stared
at for too long; and blinks precisely one second after its visitor blinks.”
By Golan Levin and Greg Baltus.
Balance & Simultaneity. QTVR by Stephen Cady
Simultaneous (2003, 1MB, QTVR)
Multiple video cameras placed at different angles and heights surround the
subject and capture simultaneously. The resulting frames are superimposed
upon each other and re-constructed through post-production techniques.
The attempt further illustrates the flattening of time and space and the
perceptible conjoining of these states by allowing the viewer to see from
multiple vantages simultaneously.
By Stephen Cady.
interactive: use mouse to click and drag.
Keith Schofield – 3 Commercials
Elephants (2008, 9MB, 1:19 min.)
Flatheads (2008, 2MB, 30 sec.)
3 commercials for Samsung, Axion and Fruit Roll-Ups
by inspiring director – Keith Schofield.
Pencil Face by SCADshorts
2 videos by Carl Burgess
Tales of the Unexpected (2008, 14MB, 1:06 min.)
Debris (2008, 33MB, 3:20 min.)
By Carl Burgess.
‘Disappointment’ video here.
Move – Move if you wanna – Keith Schofield
“Move” (2009, 25MB, 3:06 min.)
Mims – “Move”, a hip-hop music video that used high-speed Phantom
cameras to shoot the “ultra slow-motion” dance/movement sequences.
By Keith Schofield.