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…
Anarchy (Jim Punk) (2006, 8.2MB, 52 sec loop)
reresex (Abe Linkoln) (2006, 3.5MB, 16 sec)
Anarchist (Szpakowski) (2006, 1MB, 26 sec loop)
Pistols remixes, from JimPunk,
Abe Linkoln & ..er.. me.
Send us yours & we’ll post ’em.
a wristful of bits (2002, 6.19MB, 4:26 min)
8 bits or less (2002, 5.58MB, 4:47 min)
close vision (2002, 4.79MB, 3:33 min)
for a few bits more (2003, 6.29MB, 4:59 min)
Patrick Lichty, artist, writer, curator & wit, the man responsible
for the excellent Intelligent Agent, has donated a decade’s worth
of his video work to DVblog.
We’ll be showing it all over the next few months.
We start with these wonderful pieces: smart
& delirious, made mostly with images from a
Casio WQV-1 WristCam watch which is B&W with a resolution
of 100X100 pixels, ‘both the embodiment of technological determinism’ ,
Lichty comments, ‘and its antithesis.’.
I mostly have the urge to run fast from stuff which is fashionably
self referentially about the technological, often so worthy but oh-so-dull.
Thing with Lichty is, dull it is so not, rather, simultaneously
light (in a good sense..not dumbed down & simplistic,
but playful & engaging) possessed of genuine humor,
& just chock full of ideas & joyous invention.
Dancing in the Sun (2006, 16.7MB, 1:09 min)
Does what it says on the tin, & nicely too.
Made by Gareth Jordan.
borat on republicans (2004, 9.1MB, 4:10 min)
“Lunch with Arizona Republican Committee”
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
ShotCutScoredAndPostedByEmailFromMyNokia93Phone (2007, 2.4MB, 2:41 min)
I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on how, whatever is the ostensible
subject of movies, they are all in some sense ‘about’ everything we see
in every frame. And with the passing of time how this often becomes
more true as if, like a dog from water, the meaning is shaking itself out.
The Bas Jan Ader ‘falling’ movies exemplify this ( & how poignantly!) for me –
their conceptual motor aside, I remain most haunted by their background landscapes..
Rupert Howe of FatGirlInOhio brings this sharply to mind –
the subject might be a morning jog or Falafel but the totality of each movie
contains some of the best evocation of the glory & the grime that is
2007 London I’ve yet seen. That doesn’t exhaust it, of course, which is why this
work is deft & it is fine.
He is gravely mistaken about the Falafel though – undoubtedly the
best Falafel in London is at Gaby’s on the Charing Cross Road…
Untitled Iowa (2007, 31MB, 5:57 min)
Gorgeous & deft chunk of Americana from Aaron Valdez
with all the Hoppery, Wyethy, Portery &c nods
but nonetheless standing nicely on its own feet
For my taste that high reverby modal piano(?)
tiptoes along the border of clich
Extreme Skipping (2006, 15.7MB, 2:36 min.)
This short was made a little while back, about one of the most
underappreciated universal sports: extreme skipping. If you are a skipper
and have footage of yourself skipping, make sure to submit it to us.
We would love to check out your moves.
Music by Blink 182. Edited by Ajit Anthony Prem.
Directed by Marc Miller and Marc Levine.
from – squigglebooth.
