Mr. Robot (2004, 2.8MB, 2:31 min.)
Scotch and Soda (2005, 4.4MB, 2:10 min.)
Eugene Mirman is a comedian, writer, and film maker based in
New York City. Eugene has appeared on several TV shows, including
Late Night With Conan O
Category Archives: satire
Reach – Prangstrg
Reach – A Lecture Musical (2005, 15.3MB, 3 min.)
This video gives me chills, it is simply hilarious.
Performing a musical number to such a captive
and unsuspecting audience is wicked.
Takes a lot of guts to pull a stunt like this.
Prangstgr
By Mica Scalin.
Listeners by Brantley Jones
Listeners 1 (2009, 6.7MB, 0:23)
Listeners 2 (2009, 10.5MB, 0:29)
Listeners 3 (2009, 16.2MB, 0:46)
Three lovely short remixes from Athens, Georgia
artist Brantley Jones.
‘Easy Listening’ – Marisa Olson
Easy Listening (2005, 4.2MB, 1:56 min.)
At once a performance and performance-documentation, this video
grew out of the admission that much of Marisa Olson
The Pool Cleaner
Hammer and Tongs (2005, 16.7MB, 5:43)
More well known now for their music videos and big
screen productions, an older short from Hammer and Tongs.
Pool cleaner played by Hammer, aka Garth Jennings.
Dennis Knopf – Bootyclipse
Dennis Knopf – Bootyclipse (2007, 18.8MB, 5:38)
Found footage mashups aren’t really anything new, but
Dennis Knopf made this one from YouTube booty dancing
clips, and it makes me laugh every time I watch it.
moiMovies – Marisa Olson
moiMovies, compilation #1 (2005, 5MB, 2:19 min.)
Consisting of short video juxtapositions of old images of
the artist andrecordings of her voice, Mo
Justin Kemp – hard timez
Justin Kemp – hard timez (2008, 35MB, 5:52)
Justin Kemp is a ridiculously funny video artist who,
among other things, remixes YouTube videos.
Almost nothing video related brings me as much joy
lately as this does.
Erik Bunger – the Allens
Erik Bunger – the Allens (2004, 23.3MB, 3:19)
Absolutely clever piece by Swedish artist Erik Bunger,
drawn from his experience moving from Sweden to
Germany, where many films on TV are dubbed. As
language can be so central to a character, Bunger
started thinking about people like Woody Allen, who
always play the same character but also one so
connected to his whiny, nervous New York accent.
For this installation piece, a computer program
continuously changed the dubbing of Allen between
his various vocal incarnations. Totally delightful.
MoTV News, Episode 1 – Marisa Olson
MoTV News, Episode 1 (2005, 13.6MB, 6:20 min.)
During her American Idol audition training process,
Marisa Olson asked MTV News veteran Tabitha Soren to interview her and
then critique her
New York Times Special Edition – The War Is Over
New York Times Special Edition (2008, 16.2MB, 2:12 min)
Self-explanatory movie giving background & reaction
to the day before yesterday’s visionary prank ( &
how often do you hear those two words together?)
by those visionary pranksters The Yes Men.
More here.
Breathtaking & inspiring.
Voting
I know we featured the folks at Sporkworld only recently
but they just posted this and it’s wonderful
– & somewhat topical…
Watch it all – it’s deadly serious but Millie Niss
makes her points with the kind of comic timing
many would kill for.
the whether|man
10_10_07 (2007, 8MB, 1:16 min.)
From Astoria, Queens, it’s the whether|man.
More vids here..
Laric – 50 50, 50 50 2008
Oliver Laric – 50 50 (2007, 12.1MB, 2:06)
Oliver Laric has really grown on us over time.
In 2007, he mashed up fifty YouTube videos of
random kids lip-syncing (or really singing, sort of)
to “In Da Club,” “Candy Shop,” and “How We Do”
by the American rap artist (artist?) 50 Cent,
leaving them in their original YouTube format.
Also keep in mind that “In Da Club” is around five
years old by now. I guess the youth know what they
like, though it’s worth noting these songs are generally
foul and offensive at best. Nevertheless, due to what I’m
calling the constant influx of amateur 50 Cent covers onto
YouTube, Laric decided that he had to make a follow-up
video, 50 50 2008, seen below.
John Baldessari – I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
John Baldessari – I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971, 135.3MB, 13:13)
One of my favorite older pieces from legendary artist
John Baldessari. Commissioned in ’71 to make an
installation piece, Baldessari couldn’t make the trip
and instructed students to write on the walls in his
place. Inspired by their results – that they covered
the gallery with this phrase – he made this video,
following his usual path of pointing out irony in art.
Look for follow-up pieces like “Teaching A Plant The
Alphabet” if you have the time. Classic.
Via the indispensable UbuWeb
Always on Time
Random Show – Always on Time (2005, 4.4MB, 2:22)
Oh, how I loved this video. And how I still do.
If you don’t get it, look up the Ja Rule/Ashanti version.
From the now defunct Random Show.
Pleix – Beauty Kit
Pleix – Beauty Kit (2001, 4.3MB, 2:17)
One more from Pleix, innovative work that speaks for itself.
Monochrom & the Bolshevik Glove Puppets
Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan (2008, 74MB, 7:24 min)
Kiki and Bubu and the Shift (2008, 39MB, 4:11 min)
Well, almost.
Marred only by some fashionable end-of-the-working-class-in-the-West
(who collects your trash, checks out your groceries, teaches your kids?)
nonsense, this is on the whole the finest piece of glove puppet based
agit-prop I’ve ever seen & very funny to boot.
In particular the best of these pieces,Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan,
is an absolutely clear & devastating reply to the marketeers…
See ’em all…
Carey/Laric/Stracke
Touch My Body (Oliver Laric version) (2008, 40.9MB, 4:18 min)
No Mariah (Caspar Stracke version) (2008, 52MB, 4:03 min)
OK, pay attention! This is complicated.
Ms Carey (or her corporate minders) release a video, which if she did have
a significant part to play in it shows such a staggering lack of self esteem
that a kind of dark despair begins to envelop me.
Artist Oliver Laric remixes it, removing all the backgrounds and replacing it with
green, for ease of a certain species of remixing.
There follows what is actually an interesting and nuanced exchange of views.
Then Caspar Stracke posts the second of our videos & MTAA make a
very funny joke.
Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study Video Brochure
Rather wonderful piece from Shawn Kornhauser & Brandon Joyce
who seem to exist in a strange crevice between real Philadelphia & well…some other one.
The layers of japes & spoofery multiply exponentially but something near the truth,
whatever that is, can be found here, here &
here.
I think.
PES – Early movies for the web
Grizzly Bear – Knife
Knife (2007, 67 MB, 5:50 min.)
“Death Valley is hot. We wouldn
Home of the Twisted Films of PES
Kaboom (2005, 9 MB, 1:14 min.)
Fireworks (2004, 6.1 MB, 28 sec.)
PES is a New York based animator and movie maker. His work has been
commissioned by Bacardi and Diesel. His shorts, stop-motion animations
are known for their skill and brilliance.
Psycho Bob – Bob And The Neighbors
Bob And The Neighbors (2008, 10 MB, 1:10 min.)
“Another lazy Sunday in Bob’s neighbourhood; while Bob works on
his yard, his nosy neighbor crosses the line, forcing Bob to take
matters into his own hands.”
From The AV Club.
Yogin – John Hanrahan
Yogin (2008, 57 MB, 3:15 min.)
“Yogin is a 3 minute short animation I created for my MFA thesis.
I am responsible for everything but the musical score.
It is the story of a brash young yogi challenging an old master to
a yoga battle. The egotistical challenger thinks he has what is
necessary to take on the master however he fails to realize there
is more to yoga then physical postures.”
Wonderfulness from John Hanrahan.
The Vasulkas: Pioneers & Magicians
Violin Power (clip, 1978, 2.1MB, 1:17 min)
The Vasulkas, husband & wife team Woody & Steina,
have devoted over thirty years to an intensive exploration
of the possibilities of electronic image making.
It
Lee Walton – Experientialism
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat – Throw the Jew Down the Well
Peace (2005, 19.7MB, 2:46 min)
This Borat performance at a country-western bar in Tucson, Arizona
provoked a sharp letter from the Anti-Defamation League.
A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (2)
‘Embedded’ – Alan Sondheim in Santa Monica
restart (2006, 9KB, 4 min. loop)
We’re Alan Sondheim fans here at dvblog.
When so much work on the web is banal & lacking in ambition
he is an antidote, a tonic, a reason to hope.
His restless energy & intelligence transmute everything
he engages with into art (remember Picasso & those handlebars?)
Those living in the Santa Monica area might have seen his installation
‘embedded’ (also including work by filmmaker Leslie Thornton)
at the Track 16 gallery in 2006.