Pere Marquette (2007, 10.4MB, 1:59 min)
Well I’m a fool for anything to do with trains, but this gem
from Jennifer Proctor is outstanding; both
heart-rendingly beautiful & a lesson in craft:
it’s what she does & it’s what she doesn’t.
Category Archives: documentary arts
Ice Hockey with Max Herman
‘Perseverance (fragment)’ (2006, 35 MB, 3:05 min.)
The Rhizome mailing list became a more predictable & somehow
less exciting place when wit, polymath & provocateur Max Herman
hung up his mouse for a while. He’s back there now & he’s here too,
with some ice hockey action for your delectation, being a section
from a longer work entitled Perseverance.
Says Max, “If I can choose keywords, can they be ‘hockey, millennium,
glasperlenspiel, perseverance, history?’ ”
Of course they can, Max, of course.
(PS Watch the movie, it’s quite lovely)
Jeff Gompertz Installation in Beijing
fakeshop_art (2007, 42MB, 1:45 min.)
Installation/performance at 798 Art Festival, Beijing, China
by Jeff Gompertz aka ‘fakeshop’, aka ‘polystar’. May 12, 2007
Infinite Smile – MTAA
Infinite Smile (2005, 10.1MB, 2:43 min. loop)
Self-portrait of MTAA smiling and blinking.
(M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.)
A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (1)
waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.)
move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.)
stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.)
Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’
by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.
This is very smart work indeed – it references, or better evokes, ideas & precedents
& techniques from all over world culture high & low & I’m sure this is conscious.
The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5’s short history of virtual hiking,
featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all & the dry
keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional
romanticism about nature & the landscape to sneak back in.
Not a criticism. Me, I love it.
Diffraction
Diffraction (2006, 22.3 MB, 5:23 min.)
Scratching & video: two good things in one package.
DJ GKUT & Brendan Dawes of Manchester, UK, based
outfit magneticNorth run mN’s video-control-by-vinyl tools
through their paces at FACT in Liverpool.
More than neat.
Mark Napier at bitforms gallery nyc
smoke (excerpt) (2007, 7MB, 56 sec.)
‘A symbol of the human desire to monumentalize ideas in physical form,
the Empire State Building is a subject of Mark Napier‘s artwork in the past four years.
This icon of American hegemony is key to exploring shifting structures of power,
specifically the transition from steel to software as the medium of power in our time.’
In Smoke, a generative software installation projected on the bitforms gallery wall.
Images from the show –here.
Union Docs – #3
Union Docs – #2
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann (2006, 30MB, 1:57 min.)
Wicked little animated tribute by Gary Butcher for the
Swiss graphic design legend Josef Müller-Brockmann.
The movie was made for the forty-eight posters exhibition
being held at the Image Now gallery in Dublin.