FuyijaMiyagi (2007, 24MB, 3:17 min.)
Stop motion, dominos, great music video for
Fujiya & Miyagi by Michel Gondry-esque.
Category Archives: music video
Telemak – Aegis Breakmix
Aegis Breakmix (2007, 75MB, 4:33 min.)
Stunning tour de force of editing by telemakfilms.
Fascinating how disparate footage can be rendered
coherent & lent such enormous forward momentum…
OK Go in LEGO – Amy Fowler
OK Go in Lego (2007, 53.3MB, 3:11 min.)
Rather wonderful re-construction in LEGO by Amy Fowler
of the OK Go video for A Million Ways .
Kind of rendering the minimal..er..minimaler.
By Mica Scalin.
Harmony Korine again
Living Proof (2006, 10.9MB, 3:12 min.)
Further bizarreries from Harmony Korine, he of Kids, Gummo
& Julian Donkey Boy fame.
First up, a vid for Cat Power’s Living Proof from her current album ‘The Greatest’.
Then one for the great Sonic Youth.
He has good taste in music, it cannot be gainsaid.
Ooh!… & look who’s home but not quite alone…
My Body Is A Cage – Arcade Fire
bodycage (2007, 15.7MB, 4:47 min.)
Video for the Arcade Fire song My Body Is A Cage using clips
from the classic Sergio Leone film Once Upon A Time in the West.
with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.
By J Tyler.
Anarchy In The UK – Twittervlog
Anarchy In The UK (2007, 45.4MB, 4:44 min)
Anarchy In The UK has been a bit of a theme of late here on dvblog.
Now, from the indispensable Rupert Howe comes this breathtaking version.
Not only is it extremely funny, with an off the meter chutzpah quotient,
(witness the animal terror in the eyes of the guys on the tube towards the end)
but like a lot of Rupert’s work it’s a kind of contemporary London travelogue
(of the best sort: hard edged, eyes wide open truthful & hence beautiful) too.
Train Coming
The Smith Family/Train Coming/surreal.mov (2007, 1.12MB, 56 sec)
Edward Picot/traincoming.mov (2007, 31.9MB, 2:38 min)
The Smith Family/Train Coming/surreal2.mov (2007, 1.11MB, 57 sec)
I’m going to sign this one, because it’s marginally self-promoting
though not, I think, in a terrifically self-serving way.
I’m currently running a competition on my personal site to either perform, remix
do karaoke versions of, or do basically anything with, a short
(33 sec) song.
To date I haven’t exactly been inundated with entries, but
curiously three out of the current five are little movies &
great they are too.
Don’t think The Smith Family have a website (correct me if I’m
wrong folks) but Edward Picot can be found here & here.
Also – please feel free to have a go yourselves! -details from the competition link above.
–Michael
Joakim Ojanen
Broken Spirit (2006, 56.5MB, 2:34 min)
A breath of dystopian but simultaneously utterly beguiling
& charming melancholy.
From Swedish video maker Joakim Ojanen
Kev Flanagan
Talking Heads (2003, 12.8MB, 1:09 min)
Ain’t Nobody Got It (2006, 18.1MB, 1:35 min)
Two movies from Irish artist & curator Kev Flanagan.
I like them both, but there is something so utterly fuck-off mad
about the Aguilera cover, with its fine disregard to boot for any known
production value, which totally does it for me.
The performers in that are Cian McConn & Stephanie Hough
who as Margaret and Jim have their own neat line in performance…
Rick Silva – A Rough Mix
A Rough Mix (excerpt) (2007, 140MB, 8 min.)
Excerpt from a single channel and a looping installation DVD by Rick Silva.
Oh this is smart & rich & lovely work!
You think perhaps the remix idea has colonised all of our thoughts
& our work to the level of clich�.
(So maybe all that remains is to classicize it – to do it better & better,
which is certainly something Silva, in various guises, has recently done..)
One day, someone describes
might, if of a cynical turn of mind, think – ‘Ho-Hum!’
Then you actually look at it & there’s something alchemic going on.
From a fairly base metaphor, Rick Silva conjures a work of elegance,
substance & great beauty – a beauty not only visual but moral.
Look at it! – it’s a paean to the planet but many other things too:
the scratching becomes dance, it’s a dance film!
The music is so carefully cut (but in such an apparently offhand way,
the way one imagines the mythical 19th century gentleman
would cut): it’s a music video!
It’s a travelogue (but its editing would not have made sense
before the net).
Each basic level constantly & fruitfully gives rise to other emergent
meanings which in turn reseed new ways of thinking about the piece
– the mark of a serious & substantial work of art.
PS Interesting to compare this with Cary Peppermint’s recent
Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness
– another work that is in a sense engaged around loosely ecological
themes, very much the zeitgeist, (but reasonably so!)
& whose artistic qualities are not confined, limited, by that engagement…
PPS Now I think about it – there’s all the wonderful stuff by Stallbaum & Poole too.
That fits in somewhere too…
PPPS Personally I like this much more than Silva’s recap – for me, in that, there was a sense in which the formal structure based on a kind of repetition over a long period eventually closes
us off ( although one can of course see how that work might have been
a very necessary staging post to this)
– here there’s a fantastic sense of opening-out
Exhilarating!