In the Turbine Hall in 2006 and Realityfilm presented
a ‘psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret’ with live music by
The Real Tuesday Weld providing a new original score for the
film
Category Archives: documentary arts
Eugene Mirman – Comedy Shorts
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
Juanjo Fern
Sine Nights (2004, 3.1MB, 1:08 min)
Deconstruccion Natural #1 (2003, 7.9MB, 1:39 min)
Two nicely contrasting bits of work, both evidencing
a well developed visual sensibility from Barcleona based
artist & VJ Juanjo Fern
Homographies by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Homographies (2006, 33MB, 8 min.)
HOMOGRAPHIES is an interactive installation featuring 144 robotic fluorescent
light fixtures controlled by 7 computerized surveillance systems. As people
walk under the piece, the light tubes rotate to create labyrinthine patterns of
light that are
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.
Red Shoe Delivery Service
Red Shoe Delivery Service (2006, 18.6.5MB, 3:10 min)
Red Shoe Delivery Service is a group of artists who take
up residence in various cities & go around in a vehicle
offering people rides & um.. while people are in the vehicle
they get to look at art & uh
Light Criticism – the Anti-Advertising Agency
Light Criticism (2007, 14MB, 2:21 min.)
Light Criticism is a project by Steve Lambert (the Anti-Advertising Agency)
with Graffiti Research Lab.
From Eyebeam R&D Open Lab.
Iconic Synesthesia
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.
My Funny Valentine Again
My Funny Valentine (2006, 15.1MB, 2:55 min)
Video by Michael Szpakowski.
The singer is his daughter, Anna Szpakowska.
(Michael playing the piano).
..once again a happy Valentine’s Day to all from us at DVblog.org
‘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
Ingredient X – Tales of Mere Existence
The Times I Have Smoked Pot (2005, 1.3 MB, 1:50 min.)
Horny (2005, 1.9MB, 1:21 min.)
A guy named Lev makes these great videos from his comics.
From Ingredient X Productions.
By Mica.
Robert Todd – NEST
Robert Todd – NEST (2008, 33.2MB, 4:36)
More from the brilliant, always poignant Robert Todd.
The NEST is a place of resting, but for the restless spirit,
it is a moving island. Here we find silence, if not solace.
This film is both the third in a series and the first of a
trilogy. To understand how it fits within Todd’s vision,
you should go watch more on his site. It will take your
breath away.
A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness (3)
moose and atv (2005, 2MB, 46 sec.)
springwater finale (2005, 6.5MB, 2:27 min.)
Final two pieces, chapters 7 & 8, from
Under Scan by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Under Scan (2005, 31MB, 9:51 min.)
“Under Scan” is a public art installation based on self-representation.
Thousands of “video-portraits” taken in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton
and Nottingham are projected onto the ground; at first, the portraits are not
visible because the space is flooded by white light coming from a high-powered
projector. As people walk around the area, their shadows are cast on the ground,
revealing the video-portraits in short sequences.
By Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Bram Crevits and Pall Thayer on Obama
Pall Thayer – Inaugurationanimation (2009, 300MB, 49:56)
As far as I know, none of us at DVblog have become
infected with Obamania. Doesn’t mean we don’t
appreciate the fine art of the remix or dig hope.
First, from Bram Crevits of Cinamatics,
Obama’s Berlin speech, composed entirely of video shot
on cell phones. Remember when the gaze was
given to us by the TV news? Now we give it back.
Second, from Pall Thayer, a silent
animation piece of the entire inauguration.
Free to download and remix as you like. We like.
Both of these pieces surprise and amaze me by the
amount of work they must have taken to compile.
Painstaking, no? Unless these gentlemen know
something I do not, these are labor-intensive pieces
in their own respective ways. Lovely and timely.
My Name Is Oona – Gunvor Nelson
Gunvor Nelson – My Name Is Oona (1969, 26.9MB, 9:12)
Historic piece from the Swedish filmmaker about her daughter.
Typical of Gunvor’s work, this film addresses themes about
nature, childhood, and maintains an ethereal quality.
Excellent early piece from a uniquely talented woman.
ICP Orchestra Play Monk
Criss Cross (2003, 95MB, 7:42 min.)
The extraordinary ICP orchestra put Monk’s Criss Cross
through its paces.
All good, but just wait for the Misha Mengelberg piano solo.
Piano players everywhere: weep. Everyone else just relish.
Bliss.
Hair Shoes Love and Honesty
Mike Mills – Hair Shoes Love and Honesty (2004, 13.8MB, 2:57)
From the inimitable Mike Mills.
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
Jonathan Schipper – Opposition
Opposition (2005, 4.5MB, 1 min.)
Interactive kinetic sculpture from Jonathan Schipper performed at Pierogi gallery in 2005.
“Two participants are taken from the audience and buckled into the saddles on either
end of the machine. The participants are then lifted into the air. Both participants are provided
hand controllers that allow them to control the movement of the saddles, which are on
pneumatically powered gimbals, and the central rotation of the machine. Some movements
are shared and some affect only one or the other of the two participants. The function of each
input button on the controllers is changed by a computer on a regular basis so that the
participants can not gain full control of the machine. A rock and roll band is playing electric
instruments near by. The amplification for the band is turned on by the machine while the
machine is in the air. The band members (Outside Man) wear helmets that isolate the band,
who can not hear anything other than their own sounds. After a few minutes the participants
are brought back to the ground and released from the machine. The band is turned off and
the machine is ready for the next cycle.”
A holiday wish from Carl Weaver
A holiday wish – Carl Weaver (2005, 2.3MB, 0:43)
Carl Weaver is a renaissance man – photographer,
writer, doer of many things. He also has a dry humor
and delivery most of us would kill for. In 2005, he
called to wish his friend Dwayne a merry Christmas.
We similarly extend holiday greetings and well wishes
to you, from everyone here at DVblog.
KontraKontrolle – by Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer
KontraKontrolle (2003, 8MB, 3:13 min.)
Performance during the Visual Power Show, Paradiso Amsterdam, October 2003
by Poly-Xelor (collaboration between Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer).
“KontraKontrolle is a performance concept where we literally stepped into the
computer-screen. By placing ourselves as icons (via bluescreen technique) on
top of the presenters screen we could interact live with the presenter’s actions.”
Curt Cloninger – Pop Mantra #3
Pop Mantra #3 (2008, 103MB, 9:53 min.)
The third in a series of performances where Curt Cloninger continuously
performs a short excerpt from a single pop song for several hours,
blindfolded.
At OTO in Brooklyn, New York.
Excerpt: “tonight / wait, now” from The Ramones song “I Just Wanna Have Something To Do”
Duration: 6 Hours
Media: Electric Guitar, Voice, Black Felt Blindfold, Black Converse All Stars, Time
Read more here.
Sally – by Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer
Sally is a project by Poly-Xelor (collaboration between Roel Wouters
and Luna Maurer). Sally is a movie for the project ‘Grote kunst voor kleine mensen‘
and has been be presentend at cinekid 2005, @ the Stedelijk museum.
The movie shows marbles in a room. The gravitation of the room is variable
therefore the marbles will dance over the floor, walls and ceiling.
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
‘Play One of Those Funky Dope Scratches!’
Freeze Bass Rock (date unknown, 0.9MB, 47 sec)
Going On (date unknown, 1.1MB, 58 sec)
Lamentably poorly filmed, but nonetheless delicious bits of
scratching from delarge.co.uk, which I think is a Brighton,
UK based visual arts &c. collective, though I could be wrong –
these guys are cool & don
Mischa Kuball – Public Square
Mischa Kuball – Public Square (date unknown, 4.4MB, 2:41)
Do you miss the public square, the everyperson
common space? Yeah, so did Mischa Kuball. So
he made this. It’s quite fantastic. Enjoy.
Kinetocast in autumn
Kinetocast – To Watch In Preparation For The Deep Fall (2006, 8.5MB, 1:25)
Kinetocast – To Watch For Help Getting Through (2007, 16.9MB, 2:55)
Two more from the endlessly delightful kinetocast,
conceptual pieces about existential moments.