O:.O:.O:.(2007, 47.3MB, 59 sec loop)
Quite extraordinary dance video from Jaygo Bloom.
What I love about it is the wonderfully insouciant way
it both references and evokes early modernism
(Calder is cited as a source/inspiration by Bloom) but is also
(and could not be other than) utterly contemporary.
Great! So great it makes me totally jealous!
Camera: Patrick Jamieson and Anna Druka
Music: Hammerschmidt
Parabolic (2007, 35.5MB, 4:50 min.)
This bit of intense gorgeousness was made from cell phone
video footage (funny how we still use that word, footage)
by Brian Gibson who sometimes posts here.
If it was simply lovely that would be enough, but it’s very
structured too – Brian has such a great feel for the intrinsic
qualities of the material but also a real editing eye…
she-shoe (2007, 39.1MB, 5:20 min.)
Extraordinary & energetic collab between pianist/singer/dancer
Debora Petrina and film maker Luigi De Frenza.
SHE HAS HER HAND IN A SHOE!!!
GOT IT???
OK.
Pet Shop Boys – Integral (2007, 18.7MB, 3:21 min.)
There is so much to say about this.
And while I want to discuss surveillance, QR codes, and the passage of time,
I think this video speaks for itself.
Estate Life (2007, 48.4MB, 5:16 min.)
Made earlier this year as part of Epping Forest Arts’ Homelife project,
this video features parkour work by a group of young people
from the Limes Farm Estate in Chigwell, UK.
In particular check out the sudden backflip off the garden
wall about half way through – scary!
Shot using conventional DV camera, stills camera, a cheap mpeg4 machine &
an inverted sugar bowl.
Video made by Michael Szpakowski with additional camera work
by Vicky Tebbs & Charlotte Harris.
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
Ostrich rap from borderfilmproject.
‘I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby’ (197?, 42 MB, 4:57 min.)
I’m as astonished & excited today when I listen to the music of Captain Beefheart
as I was in 1970, when someone loaned me a copy of ‘Strictly Personal’ &
shivers ran up & down my 13 year old spine.
He was, & is, one of a kind & today music’s loss is visual art’s gain.
Mimi, Jack & Anna (2007, 14.6MB, 2:09 min.)
‘About half way through this, I realised I was unconsciously structuring it with the work
of Jacques Rivette in mind. So it’s a kind of tiny tribute to a master.
The music is my arrangement for Tuba Quartet of the Pixies’
Is She Weird? played by Tubalat on their Hall of Mirrors CD.
Thanks to them & thanks to Anna, Jack & Mimi.’
from Michael Szpakowski.
a beauty !
