‘Irark’ (2003, 5.7 MB, 5 min.)
‘ME’ (2001, 18.5 MB, 2:45 min.)
Simply great stuff from Austrian Monochrom.
Category Archives: satire
Matt Smithson
What’s He Building? (2006, 6.7MB, 1 min.)
Matt Smithson is a gifted illustrator whose videos incorporate text,
drawing and photography into rich animated collages.
This video perfectly complements the Tom Waits reading it accompanies.
By Mica.
Terminally Ambivalent Over You – Alex Budovsky
Terminally Ambivalent Over You (2002, 26.1MB, 3:19 min.)
Based on Stephen Coate‘s song from the album ‘When Psyche meets Cupid’,
this animation tells the story of a prisoner who works in a prison’s
gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend.
Neat stuff from Alex Budovsky, aka Aleksey Budovskiy.
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat – Wine Tasting
wine tasting (2002, 28MB, 3:57 min.)
British chameleon Baron Cohen as Borat – the spoof Kazakh television presenter.
more Borat here.
Jillian Mcdonald – Me and Billy Bob
Me and Billy Bob (2004, 22.7MB, 7:04 min.)
Jillian inserted herself into existing film clips as the recurring
object of actor Billy Bob Thornton
Rock History
Rock History (2006, 6.3 MB, 2:34 min.)
Ugly pictures and Man VS Magnet have created a short film play before
the Battle of the Ad Bands at Irving Plaza in New York. (The show is a
charity venue where advertising agency garage bands compete for the
best band and all the proceeds go to help the public schools of New York.)
The result is a funny and hilarious and violent animation about the recent
music history, and especially the design of the LPs.
from its art mag.
Blow Up Media
DELOS (2007, 36 MB, 7:15 min.)
A great corporate satire by The Blow Up Media.
thanks yoshi.
Gareth Long
Gareth Long (2004, 1.2 MB, 25 sec.)
More from Gareth Long.
Two from Human Dog
Garage Door (2006, 4.4MB, 0:47)
Human Dog was one of the first videoblogs and has
been closed down since early 2007. Luckily, all of
the media remains online (so far). One of the best
things about the entire series of videos (and the various
serials therein) was creator Chris Weagel’s ability
to tease out the absurdity of everyday life without
hitting the audience over the head with his message.
Video that was made specifically to live online, this
is some of the best work ever produced in videoblog
format.
German Political dogs?
Tinjail
Still Project 07 (2007, 5.7MB, 1:29 min)
Half of the splendid & indispensable MTAA, whose work we feature here
whenever possible – conceptualist pranksters with a rare (for the territory)
& self deprecating human warmth – Mark River makes interesting video stuff
(amongst other things) on his Tinjail site.
A lot of them are kind of multi-channel (go look) & don’t fit the dvblog format.
This one does & is excellent too..
Here’s his preamble to it:
‘The wild blue yonder, the decent, la jetee, fearless, street fight,
loud QUIET loud, a sound of thunder, enemy at the gate, so wrong they
Invisible Threads: Sweatshop Jean Factory in Second Life
Invisible Threads (2008, 18.3 MB, 2:53 min.)
Stephanie Rothenburg & Jeff Crouse will be producing designer blue jeans.
Styles include boot cut, skinny leg, flare and the new “Boyfriend” trousers.
Profits from these purchases will be used to maintain the factory and pay for
workers
Boling & Morales – Mad as a Box of Badgers
Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)
the church of the future (2006, 28.5MB, 2:39 min)
There’s a rather un-PC expression current in estuary English:
mental. Its semantic nuances don’t lend themselves to easy explanation.
It implies a kamikaze degree of chutzpah, often in a physical
context but also by metaphorical extension to any field of
behaviour & often expressing a kind of stunned admiration.
Well, watch the vids & deny if you can that John Michael Boling
+ Javier Alberto Morales ( collaborators on the visuals, JAM does the music on
sleighride) and owners of
www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
are totally fucking mental
‘Rorschach Revelations’ by Aaron Bourget
Rorschach Revelations (2005, 3.5MB, 1:56 min.)
‘A Rorschach test blot comes slowly into view. A voice responds to the image
in free flow of associations. The abstract image humorously morphs into a
recognizable one, in which the viewer identifies a demonic vision of the political left.’.
Eat your heart out Woody Allen!
From ‘Too Much Freedom’ by freewaves.org
What Would Jesus Buy?
Trailer for ,
a documentary about Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping,
produced by Morgan Spurlock.
I’m not convinced that Spurlock is the man to spread a good message,
but I sure would go to any church where Rev. Billy showed up.
DRIVE THE DEMONS OUT OF THOSE CASH REGISTERS!!
Patrick Lichty Season – #2
One Language, Indivisible (2003, 20.9MB, 2:52 min)
Corporate Ritual (2003, 5.4MB, 1:43 min)
America’s Most Famous Mexican (2003, 9MB, 1:41 min)
‘Two!’ I hear you cry ‘Two! – WHEN WAS ONE!?’
Well it was er..um..in April & I meant to post more
sooner only I was just plain dilatory.
Partly because the body of work Patrick has handed over
to us is simply somewhat overwhelming in volume & scope
& I’m actually a bit overawed.
So now I’ve grabbed the bull by the horns & am going to
post these three, which showcase Lichty the radical.
They’re funny, pointed and (always a good sign with political art
IMHO) really, really weird…
[Actually, coming back to revise this post, it occurred to me
I don’t think Swiftian is entirely hyperbolic]
There’ll be more before too long…
Designer Slash Model
Designer Slash Model (2007, 9.19 MB, 3:04 min)
“There aren’t many Saul Bass/Hiedi Klums out there”
but you may already be a Designer Slash Model.
The award winning creative shop Digital Kitchen pokes
fun at self-congratulatory, uber cool designers
while showcasing their own work.
By Mica Scalin.
TRIPTYCH TV – the 3 maestros
chocolate reign (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)
lost highway jam (2007, 500k, 4 sec. loop)
push up worm (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)
From hipdom’s answer to the three tenors,
a little taste of triptych.tv
Fearless (& peerless) trailblazers; continuing innovators:
abe linkoln
antonio mendoza
jimpunk
Bathtime in Clerkenwell – Alex Budovsky
Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002, 15.3MB, 3:14 min)
Alex Budovsky aka Aleksey Budovskiy created this great animation
based on Stephen Coates ( aka (The Real) Tuesday Weld‘s) song of the same title.
This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos,
who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move
inside the cuckoo clocks.
The Planets – Toine Klaassen
The Planets (2005, 1MB, 1:07 min.)
Toine Klaassen draws attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small,
and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings
with no predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work.
Often the work is created in the presence of the public
in a performance setting, in which he makes no attempt
to avoid the absurd.
Or as Klaassen himself states:
“If you catch a butterfly in your hands the powder on its
wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”
Lyapis Trubetskoy – ‘Capital’
Capital (2007, 55MB, 3:18 min.)
A wonderful surrealistic piece of pop-art with a cynical view of world politics.
Vote for this video clip for MTV Russia !
From cosmosfilm.tv
Saturday Night Live with Al Gore
Saturday Night with Al Gore (2002, 7MB, 4:02 min.)
President Al Gore delivers a special message from the Oval Office
in the opening skit on Saturday Night Live.
from del.icio.us
The Movie Movie – Errol Morris
The Movie Movie (2002, 17MB, 4:16 min.)
A four-minute film produced by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris featuring
quick-cut interviews with celebrities and regular folks alike was screened
during the opening segment of the Academy Awards in 2002. The film, which
was introduced by Tom Cruise, featured such luminaries as First Lady Laura Bush,
former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, writer Susan Sontag, Phillip Glass,
Iggy Pop of the Stooges, Lou Reed, Donald Trump, Walter Cronkite and the Rev.
Al Sharpton. Morris interviewed close to 120 subjects in New York, Los Angeles and Boston.
Charlie Mars – 3 Musicians
guitarist (2005, 7MB, 1:13 min)
from Charlie Mars. The -um – videomaker from outer space.
Joseph Chomiak – point of view
point of view (2006, 11.3MB, 2:06 min.)
A silent B/W short by Joseph Chomiak –
a terrifying story of a man that finds a viewfinder that can look
into another time and place. From undergroundfilm.
Dopeness by Ted Passon
dopeness (2007, 24MB, 2:18 min.)
Plastic Little MC Nobody’s Child (aka Kurt Hunte) is a
pop-locking doctor who makes his rounds with dancing
nurses and patients. Music video by Ted Passon.
Joseph Chomiak – down and out
down and out (2006, 15.3MB, 2:35 min.)
A silent comedy from undergroundfilm.
by Joseph Chomiak.
Guthrie Lonergan
Says Tom Moody: Recommended: Guthrie Lonergan’s 9 Short Music Videos.
Reminiscent of BEIGE’s cheesy blue (green?) screen vids,
each is built around some corporate sound
(ringtone, Microsoft boot-up noise, DVD intro)
that craps up our daily lives. Also good:
atmo – The Voice
The Voice (clip) (2004, 7.9 MB, 1:36 min.)
atmo was founded in 2000 by a handful of friends who shared years
of free-lance filmmaking and reporting from places like Bosnia, Beirut and South Africa.
Johan Söderberg has lip-synced some of the most hated and loved people in history.
Beating Google
Rudy Adler piece on the excellent gaaagle.com,
protesting Google’s spineless policy of assisting
Chinese government censorship.
Check out this site, there’s some great stuff there.
Even better, make a short & relevant movie & send it in.
Now.