Category Archives: music video

Niles Atallah- Una belleza extraña y frágil/A Strange & Fragile Beauty.

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Hagalo
Hagalo Usted Mismo (2007, 25.1MB, 4:24 min)

Mas
Mas (2005, 21.1MB, 3:53 min)

Video clips hechos cuadro a cuadro de una belleza y
fr�gil extra�eza del artista chileno Niles Atallah.
El trabajo es tambi�n de una imaginaci�n enormemente
f�rtil y singularmente libre de clich�.
Apuesto que estos fueron simultaneamente un gran
desaf�o y un placer a�n m�s grande de realizar.
�Maravilloso!!

Music videos with stop-motion work of beauty
& fragile strangeness from Chilean artist Niles Atallah.
The work, also, of an enormously fertile imagination
& one singularly free of clich’.
I bet these were simultaneously a great trial &
a greater joy to make.
Wonderful!

Music:
Los Tres (Hagalo Usted Mismo )
Bobo (Mas)

Geoff Mcfetridge

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golden cage (2007, 5.5MB, 4:03 min)


western state: geoff mcfetridge (2007, 36.2MB, 9:04 min)

Geoff Mcfetridge has had his hands in some amazing things including the title sequences for Adaptation and Virgin Suicides as well as music videos for The Avalanches, Simian, and (the first video posted) Whitest Boy Alive. I came across this video on my local skate shop’s blog and was interested to find out more about the creator and stumbled across the incredibly interesting series Western State put on by Coudal Partners. The second video posted “examines Geoff Mcfetridge, his work and his moustache.” I have put the videos in this order because this is the way I viewed them and I found it was fun to watch the artist’s work and then take the time to get to know more about him. Things seem to tie themselves together nicely that way.
Whitest Boy Alive

-brian gibson

KDM 100 – A Dispatch from the Front Line

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Hey Joe (M.River)
Hey Joe [M.River] (2007, 17.9MB, 3:35 min)

Hey Joe (T.Whid)
Hey Joe [T.Whid] (2007, 17.5MB, 3:31 min)

Previously:

…bastard…Duchamp…Marx…splendid & singular….
Karaoke Death Match 100…brutal…alcohol…blood…sing-along…
fury…pee breaks…Carpenters…heavy…teleprompter …clearly…
50 days…sneak… ahem…er… moving…
T.Whid…shambling…M River…weird…dynamics…
falling over…human…wonderful…

Just over half way through: – vote early, vote often!

Karaoke Death Match 100.

Quick, Quick, Slow – the Sex Pistols Remixed

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Anarchy -Jim Punk
Anarchy (Jim Punk) (2006, 8.2MB, 52 sec loop)

Anarchy -Abe Linkoln
reresex (Abe Linkoln) (2006, 3.5MB, 16 sec)

Anarchy -Szpako
Anarchist (Szpakowski) (2006, 1MB, 26 sec loop)

Pistols remixes, from JimPunk,
Abe Linkoln & ..er.. me.

Send us yours & we’ll post ’em.

Puffing Away – Isaac King – Wagon Christ

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puffing_away
Puffing Away (2006, 46.2MB, 2:55 min)

Director: Isaac King. Music: Wagon Christ.

Variations V – John Cage

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Variation 5
Variations V (1965, 7.5MB, 2:22 min)

‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement:
directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as
they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae.
When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result.
Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine
the final sounds.’ – from mediaartnet.

Dayvan Cowboy

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Dayvan Cowboy (2006, 11.4MB, 4:36 min)

Boards of Canada’s first music video and a great one at that.
Utilizing some insane footage of Joseph Kittinger’s Excelsior III jump in 1960.
Directed by Melissa Olson.

Found at their label’s site.

B.O.C. official site.

Ting Ting – Piano Sonata by Mozart

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Ting_Ting
Ting Ting Solo (2003, 6MB, 1:06 min)

Ting Ting plays “Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major” Third Movement
by Mozart at the Kichijoji Music Festival. Ting Ting plays the ancient Chinese
“Pi Pa” – a four-stringed Lute, one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments
which first appeared in Chinese written texts of the second century BC.
Filmed and edited by Rob Pongi.

Karaoke Death Match 100 – MTAA

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place
We Gotta Get Out of This Place [M.River] (2007, 15.8MB, 3:15 min)

Hashpipe
Hashpipe [T.Whid] (2007, 17MB, 3:23 min)

From the bastard progeny of Marcel Duchamp & the Marx Brothers,
the splendid & singular MTAA, comes Karaoke Death Match 100.
Here’s the thing:

Artist collaborative M.River & T.Whid face off in the most brutal performance art smack down of the new millennium.. Karaoke Deathmatch 100! This alcohol-fueled blood feud features 50 rounds of sing-along fury (taped live over an 8-hour period with hardly any pee breaks). No Carpenters hit too cheesy, no heavy metal lyric too trite for these teleprompter warriors to hurl in a battle to the end. Who will emerge victorious? Only YOU can decide.

It’s great stuff & clearly one to follow closely -we’ll be returning to them here ‘ere
close of play in 50 days. Just want to sneak in, though, that actually I found this
quite ahem..er.. moving: – the sheer effort invoked in the
act of singing; T.Whid’s strange shambling captive bear dance & M River’s weird
but somehow totally appropriate sudden & violent changes of dynamics.
A bit like Bas Jan Ader falling over, there’s something more here than originally
meets the eye & ear, & it’s a lot human & a bit wonderful.

PS. compare & contrast

Brian Gibson – Facade

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facade
Facade (2006, 8MB, 1:29 min)

facade remix
Facade Remix (2006, 5.85MB, 1:20 min)

Brian Gibson is a recently graduated video maker
with real & substantial talent.
In particular he is an excellent editor – with a
very musical eye (sic.).
This is the first of two posts featuring his work.
I’ve deliberately started with the one I think –
although it’s a good piece – is the weakest: Facade.
Nicely made, strong visual sense, marred only for me
by a slight surrender to sentimentality…
Then look at the remix, when he forgets
about expressing himself & starts to play
( & of course thereby expresses himself)
Now that’s good.
More soon – if you can’t wait, check out Brian’s site,
in particular the rather wonderful mash up Energy Flakes .

Music credits:
Facade: Dungen – Gl