Studio Banana TV Interviews Chen Chieh Jen

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Interview with Chen Chieh Jen (2008, 40 MB, 6:05 min)

Studio Banana TV interviews Taiwanese videoartist Chen Chieh Jen.

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Jon Jost is not making movies

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Jon Jost is not making movies (2006, 36.4 MB, 6 min.)

In 2006, Woods Hole Film Festival featured a tribute
to filmmaker Jon Jost.
I got a chance to talk with him for a few minutes
about his career in film and his commitment to
pushing the medium of digital video. In this video
he gives some great advice to new DV filmmakers,
and explains once and for all 24fps setting on your camera.

By Mica.

William Eggleston – Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008

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William Eggleston interviewed by Michael Almereyda (2009, 61 MB, 5:31 min)

This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film
director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston

Edward Picot – Dr Hairy’s Address to the Nation

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Dr Hairy’s Address to the Nation (2010, 69 MB, 9:42 min)

With the UK general election coming up on Thursday
here’s Edward Picot’s Dr Hairy putting in his three penn’orth.

Whilst previous efforts have been more straighforwardly satirical
this is simply, and quite splendidly, barking…

Because it *is* funny ( the vicar punchline being my favourite)
it’s easy to overlook how much Picot has developed as
a filmmaker -there’s a quite individual and original syntax at work here,
deployed confidently and effectively throughout.

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat on Politics

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Borat on politics (2004, 25MB, 3:31 min)

Wiki Borat. More Borat on DVblog.

Studio Banana TV interview with Kohei Nawa

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Interview with Kohei Nawa (2010, 50 MB, 4:32 min)

Studio Banana TV interviews Japanese artist Kohei Nawa
best known for his ideas of

Wreck & Salvage – Shirts Get Dirty

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Shirts Get Dirty (2009, 27 MB, 1:09 min)

By Wreck & Salvage.

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Circulation by ZDEN

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Circulation (2003, 56.1MB, 3:24 min)

ZDEN is a Slovakian artist and a pioneer in real-time
video performing – VJing. His live visuals are produced by a
self-developed post-production tool called CIRCULATION,
a software-based real-time 3 source video mixing engine.
Visit his site.
More vids here.

Double-Taker (Snout) – interactive installation

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Double-Taker (Snout) (2008, 7MB, 52 sec.)

“Double-Taker (Snout)” deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species
eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance.
The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to
resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant’s trunk, which responds in unexpected
ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above
a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm,
Double-Taker (Snout) orients a supersized googly-eye towards passers-by, tracking their
bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic
system is to perform convincing “double-takes” at its visitors, in which the sculpture
appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers