BENT 2004 (2004, 8.43MB, 5 min.)
This short documentary explains what circuit bending is
and why you want to attend BENT 2008, the Fifth International
Circuit Bending Festival.
By Mica.
Category Archives: documentary
Bruno Moyni
Aileen McCormack – Carla Cope
Carla Cope (2004, 14.5 MB, 5:30 min.)
‘In loose response to 9/11, a woman in New York talks about
her life against a backdrop of old film footage. She describes in
circuitous manner two of her ex-boyfriends who were first responders.
A pulsing beat provides the driving rhythm of urban life’.
From ‘Too Much Freedom’ by freewaves.org
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize (2006, 20.9MB, 2:19)
Another important, striking piece from the
Media That Matters Film Festival 6.
The filmmaker, Jacob Caggiano, is a young man who I
believe is even younger than me, and according to him,
the whole short film came together at the last minute.
I think this is a beautiful effort.
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
Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)
Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) – (2006, 65.8MB, 6:05)
From the excellent Media That Matters, powered by Arts Engine,
a short film from the Media Matters Film Festival 6.
Submissions are soon due for the 8th annual online festival.
Since I saw much of 6 on the big screen last year,
I’m reposting some of the most striking pieces.
All pieces are made by youth or other independent producers,
all under eight minutes.
This stalkumentary is also a 72-minute documentary,
cut down here to reach a wider audience.
Stories like these make so much sense to me,
being from a similar area, similar background.
Poignantly done, this is a lovely piece.
I also happen to really like asparagus.
Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
Anarchy in the UK (1976, 18MB, 3:32 min)
The Sex Pistols performing Anarchy in the UK in 1976
on the Granada TV show ‘So It Goes’.
From Bedazzled
PS In case you missed it first time round check this out too 🙂
Body of War
Body of War (2007, 16.8MB, 2:30)
Trailer for the forthcoming documentary about
paralyzed Iraqi veteran Tomas Young’s fight to tell
the truth about the war.
Sad and informative, not to be missed.
Produced by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue,
original music by Eddie Vedder.
A Record on Celluloid on 7 Reels
Mes Amis (2007, 37.8MB, 7:35 min)
Giles Perkins, from the excellent onsuper8.org
(whose own great work we’ve shown, last week & previously)
pointed this one out to us.
Gorgeous he said, and he was right.
Comes from here & there’s a discussion here.
They Got Bills to Pay – David Kessler
They Got Bills to Pay (2007, 15.7MB, 2:29 min.)
The Streets of Philadelphia. Prostitution.
“It does sometimes confuse me as much how someone can be happy with such a life.
Sometimes I like to think that a happy person is able to be happy in any situation.
Other times I find it sad, thinking that they can’t possibly be really happy, that maybe
they don’t know real happiness. But I don’t like that answer. We can’t impose our own
sense of what makes us happy on someone else.
as far as being one of the worst areas, yes it is often hard and there is crime but I see
great beauty there and I hope to show that too.”
by David Kessler.