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
Brooklyn Snow Storm (2006, 4.7 MB, 1:02 min.)
From scratchvideo.tv. drums: Robin Russell.
Brooklyn, New York. Outside my kitchen window.
Sunday, February 12, 2006. 3:30pm until 4pm.
Big I/O Brush (2004, 4.2MB, 2 min.)
‘I/O Bursh’ is a project of the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab.
8 BIT trailer (2006, 8.7MB, 1:28 min.)
“Premiering in New York at the Museum of Modern Art,
8 BIT is a hybrid documentary examining the influence of
video games on contemporary culture.
Another Rocket in Baghdad (10th October 2006, 19.4MB, 4:06 min)
Everyone’s a target (8th Jan 2007, 1:51 min, 7.3MB)
Quite extraordinary stuff from the Alive in Baghdad vlog.
Check out the complete video archive on the site, where
you can also donate to help sustain this important project.
Wakefield Gala – clip (1920s?, 1.1MB, 23 sec.)
Munitions Factory – clip (1940s, 884KB, 21 sec.)
Berry Picking – clip (1950s ?, 891KB, 20 sec.)
Three clips from the Yorkshire Film Archive in the UK.
& a glimpse of some lost worlds.
It’s a crime more of these films are not digitised & available
for immediate view & that the online documentation is so poor.
Makes one doubly thankful for the wonderful Prelinger Archive…
Encore II (radioactive) (2004, 11.5MB, 3:31 min.)
Isaac Julien is one of Britain’s most innovative and provocative filmmakers.
He has been involved with forging a new language around black representation.
Although his works largely retain a conventional narrative approach, they are shot
through with strategies which then serve to disrupt the stability of this narrative.
Above – Encore II from tank.tv.
Vagabondia (clip, 2000, 6.6MB, 1:46 min.)
Ecstasy (2005, 18MB, 7:53 min)
by Martina Dempsey from Basement screen.
