After You (2003, 12.2MB, 2:24 min.)
Christopher Cordingley is a character animator at Disney Feature Animation.
‘I liked the idea of conveying emotions through subtleties in posture
and facial expressions. In the end, After You is mainly about the virtue
of patience and thoughtfulness, and the futility of acting out of frustration and anger.’
the karate date (2007, 19.2MB, 3:50 min.)
It’s Jerry Time!, winner of the 34th Annual Emmy Awards for ‘Outstanding Broadband Program’.
A collaboration between writer and composer – Jerry Zucker and animator, director Orrin Zucker.
Josef Müller-Brockmann (2006, 30MB, 1:57 min.)
Wicked little animated tribute by Gary Butcher for the
Swiss graphic design legend Josef Müller-Brockmann.
The movie was made for the forty-eight posters exhibition
being held at the Image Now gallery in Dublin.
foot of desire (2006, 8.16MB, 1:15 min)
Last movie in our Ken Turner season.
S’been great – love to show more in the future Ken!
Ice Age 1 (2002, 6MB, 1:56 min.)
Ice Age 2 (2006, 8.1MB, 1:26 min.)
Computer-animation extravaganza – Ice Age from 20th Century Fox.
Ice Age is directed by Chris Wedge, founder of Blue Sky Studios and
Ice Age – The Meltdown, by Carlos Saldanha.
Film (2005, 1.6MB, 17 sec loop)
“It’s Prelinger Archive footage of 1920s London.
Method:
(1) Make a virtual ‘film strip’, a long jpeg.
(2) Make a virtual ‘projector’ for this in Director.
(3) Export it all to QuickTime & Bob’s your uncle.”
Gotta Catch’em All (2006, 21.2MB, 3:50 min.)
‘A fun little short film I did at CCS with the help of my cousins Jack,
and Kaitlyn. This is CG character animation composited over video..’
by Mark DeRidder.
Treehouse Kit (excerpt) (2005, 2.3MB, 1 min.)
Excerpt from a single channel video installation and sculpture by Guy Ben-Ner.
“Treehouse Kit” consists of a large wooden tree created from recombined, generic furniture.
The sculpture is presented along with an instructional style video in which Ben-Ner
(in swim trunks and a huge beard, a cross between Robinson Crusoe and an archetypical Israeli settler) converts the pre-fab tree back into a rudimentary home.
Originally commissioned for the Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005.
CDR (Listen) (2007, 13.75MB, 1:20 min)
Says Kari Altmann:
‘This is the webvideo version. In real life it also lives as a
looping video installation with headphones (that play nothing).
This piece is meant to encourage you to question the notion
of listening and hearing. When experiencing it some people
crave audio, some people hear imprints, memories, and echoes of it,
and some people “see” it or “feel” it. The headphones that are
expected to play audio or music are actually used to close you
off to outside noises and force you to truly listen to the piece
and process it within your own headspace. Many people already
think audiovisually, while many others still divide the two in
their own terms. What do you hear?’
Broken Spirit (2006, 56.5MB, 2:34 min)
A breath of dystopian but simultaneously utterly beguiling
& charming melancholy.
From Swedish video maker Joakim Ojanen
Talking Heads (2003, 12.8MB, 1:09 min)
Ain’t Nobody Got It (2006, 18.1MB, 1:35 min)
Two movies from Irish artist & curator Kev Flanagan.
I like them both, but there is something so utterly fuck-off mad
about the Aguilera cover, with its fine disregard to boot for any known
production value, which totally does it for me.
The performers in that are Cian McConn & Stephanie Hough
who as Margaret and Jim have their own neat line in performance…
Hagalo Usted Mismo (2007, 25.1MB, 4:24 min)
Video clips hechos cuadro a cuadro de una belleza y
fr�gil extra�eza del artista chileno Niles Atallah.
El trabajo es tambi�n de una imaginaci�n enormemente
f�rtil y singularmente libre de clich�.
Apuesto que estos fueron simultaneamente un gran
desaf�o y un placer a�n m�s grande de realizar.
�Maravilloso!!
Music videos with stop-motion work of beauty
& fragile strangeness from Chilean artist Niles Atallah.
The work, also, of an enormously fertile imagination
& one singularly free of clich’.
I bet these were simultaneously a great trial &
a greater joy to make.
Wonderful!
golden cage (2007, 5.5MB, 4:03 min)
western state: geoff mcfetridge (2007, 36.2MB, 9:04 min)
Geoff Mcfetridge has had his hands in some amazing things including the title sequences for Adaptation and Virgin Suicides as well as music videos for The Avalanches, Simian, and (the first video posted) Whitest Boy Alive. I came across this video on my local skate shop’s blog and was interested to find out more about the creator and stumbled across the incredibly interesting series Western State put on by Coudal Partners. The second video posted “examines Geoff Mcfetridge, his work and his moustache.” I have put the videos in this order because this is the way I viewed them and I found it was fun to watch the artist’s work and then take the time to get to know more about him. Things seem to tie themselves together nicely that way.
Whitest Boy Alive
Puffing Away (2006, 46.2MB, 2:55 min)
Director: Isaac King. Music: Wagon Christ.
Last Train Ride (2006, 10.7MB, 4:01 min)
Skilful & eye catching animation from Turkish artist Gokhan Okur.
the philosophical table (2006, 6.89MB, 1:28 min)
Over the next few weeks we’re going to feature 9 short pieces by British artist
Ken Turner. (Which form a sequence, but can also be viewed separately)
None of them will be criticised as slick or win any prizes for technical excellence.
Nontheless I’d much rather these, than much of the technically better made but
oh so shallow & glib stuff I see.
They’re quite extraordinary, incorporating philosophical reflection, visual art,
music & performance in a rich & demanding stew.
I particularly warm to their uncompromising nature – here’s a vision,
take it or leave it, but I think you’ll be the richer for engaging.
Also, perhaps rather sentimentally, I love the feeling that here in Cornwall, UK,
is a last continuously enduring pocket of the tremendous artistic radicalism
associated with arts education in the nineteen sixties UK, far from the semi corporate
bottom lineism that is the rule today.
Particularly interested to see comments….
Ken’s site.
Ken talking about his ideas & work.
Facade Remix (2006, 5.85MB, 1:20 min)
Brian Gibson is a recently graduated video maker
with real & substantial talent.
In particular he is an excellent editor – with a
very musical eye (sic.).
This is the first of two posts featuring his work.
I’ve deliberately started with the one I think –
although it’s a good piece – is the weakest: Facade.
Nicely made, strong visual sense, marred only for me
by a slight surrender to sentimentality…
Then look at the remix, when he forgets
about expressing himself & starts to play
( & of course thereby expresses himself)
Now that’s good.
More soon – if you can’t wait, check out Brian’s site,
in particular the rather wonderful mash up Energy Flakes .
Music credits:
Facade: Dungen – Gl
Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003, 6.2MB, 2:08 min.)
A deliciously dark and twisted French comic animation film
in which a “Tour de France” cyclist is kidnapped by the Mafia.
Directed by Sylvain Chomet.
House of Cosbys (2005, 10MB, 5 min.)
from Channel 101.
This video should recieve lots of attention because it is really really
funny. Instead, it made the papers because Bill Cosby’s lawyers
threatened Channel 101 and their video hosting service with
cease and desist letters.
By Mica Scalin.
Dancing in the Sun (2006, 16.7MB, 1:09 min)
Does what it says on the tin, & nicely too.
Made by Gareth Jordan.
The Adventures of Confucius (2006, 8.5MB, 36 sec.)
Heartbroke’n and Gaaagle’d (2006, 1.9MB, 52 sec.)
Couple of movies from gaaagle.com,
a site thhat was set up to protest & satirize Google’s
decision last year to see, rather than do,
no evil.
open sesame (2005, 23MB, 3:09 min.)
“a rare non “youtube” homemade video…these are
slowly going extinct…nice music”
from – del.icio.us/cory_arcangel
Hickory Hill (2004, 10.1MB, 2:02 min)
Surfacing (2003, 8MB, 2:25 min)
Engaging & sensitive work from Jennifer Proctor.
What is the word for video..like..painterly for
painters?..well, these videos are that word.
Exquisite Corpses (2006, 1.74MB, 39 sec)
Lashings of Gallic style from the
Marmotte Corporation.
The music is “My My Metrocard” from Le Tigre.
