Sam Renseiw – Belt Crossing


Belt Crossing (2009, 9.1MB, 1:04 min)

Absolutely exquisite 2009 Lumière from Sam Renseiw

Imitations of Life – Mike Hoolboom

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Imitations of Life (excerpt) (2003, 35MB, 4 min.)

Imitations of Life is a ten-part video that strains childhood through a history
of reproduction, culling pictures from the Lumières to
the present day in order to find the future in our past.
by experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom.

Sam Renseiw – Change of Colour

Change of Colour
Change of Colour (2007, 6.16MB, 1:00 min)

Does what it says on the packaging & sublimely.
This is so beautiful.
A Lumière from Sam Renseiw.

Lumière – La sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière à Lyon

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La sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière à Lyon (1895, 2MB, 46 sec.)

The year is 1895. The “Hangar” was the first set in the history of Cinematography and
can be seen here in “La Sortie de l’usine Lumière”, Lumière’s first film.
from the fantastic site – Institut Lumière.

2 More from Lumière et Son

Helicoptics Farewell
Helicoptics Farewell (2010, 16MB, 1:02 min.)

Seas of Weighing
Seas of Weighing (2010, 10MB, 1:07 min.)

Original post

Last week’s

Lumière et Son Bow Out

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Checkout Art Fairs (2010, 8MB, 1:07 min.)

Blotting Paper
Blotting Paper (2010, 13MB, 1:06 min.)

I hadn’t realized that the splendid Lumière et Son project, which
we’ve raved about here before, was a time limited thing
but, sadly, yes & they’ve posted their last, which we repost here
above.
We’ve grabbed a few more, which we’ll post in the near future, but
do yourselves a favour and go & wallow in their site now…

Sam Renseiw –Two Recent Movies

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More Landscaping Views (2010, 54MB, 3:47 min)

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Art and Traffic (2010, 14MB, 1:00 min, silent)

We haven’t had anything from the indispensable Sam Renseiw
for a little while so, just to make Monday more tolerable for us all,
here are two recent pieces, both small gems.
I particularly like the Lumière, ‘Art and Traffic’

2 from Lumière et Son

time travel
Time Travel (2010, 10 MB, 1:10 min)

A Right of Passage
A Right of Passage (2010, 14 MB, 1:04 min)

We’ve not hidden our enthusiasm here for the work,
always interesting ,often stunning, of Sam Renseiw.
Sam’s been a particularly deft & prolific exponent of the
Lumière form re-invented/discovered/conceptualised
by Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen and Brittany Shoot (of this manor).

Here the whole thing goes a stage further with a great
collaboration between Renseiw and British filmmaker/sound artist
Philip Sanderson, archived on a site called Lumière et Son
which title, for me at least, occasions both a groan and a kind of grudging admiration.

The work is great – Renseiw’s originals, with new found-sound additions
from Sanderson; playful, witty and perhaps even a a little profound,
in a Zen kind of way.

I hadn’t really clocked it properly until I saw a couple of these pieces
at a screening in London the other day.

Here’s one from that programme (the original of which
we posted here a while ago) plus another that especially
tickled me.
Splendid stuff & here’s to many more!

Deaf Swedish Beaver TV

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Deaf Swedish Beaver TV (2010, 9MB, 1:03 min)

Sooooo un-PC on just soooo many levels
and quite quite wonderful too, a great Lumière from
DVblog’s own Brittany Shoot.

Interior Footage with Canine

Interior Footage with Canine
Interior Footage with Canine (2009, 13 MB, 57 secs)

Exquisite Lumière from the ever reliable, ever astonishing, Sam Renseiw
at spacetwo : patalab.