Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive (1977, 11.4MB, 3:51)
I’m pretty sure I have a nonsexual crush on Barry Gibb.
Doesn’t he have amazing hair?
Meanwhile, is anyone else bothered that this video
was made on a soundstage? It looks so real. And it
was over thirty years ago. Did they really have to get
so advanced so early on? You’re too good to walk on
some legit, actual piers, guys? Tragic, but still fabulous.
Timothy McConville – White Piano (2009, 26.7MB, 2:21)
Video by Timothy McConville for his own band
Duchess’ song “White Piano”
Hillbilly USA (2005, 7MB, 1:41 min.)
A beautifully executed found object hillbilly
masterpiece. From – Borders Perrin Norrander
Monkey Drummer (2001, 6.5 MB, 2:25 min.)
All Is Full of Love (1999, 21.3 MB, 3:50 min.)
By Chris Cunningham.
(All Is Full of Love – starring Bj
CSS – Alcohol (2007, 17MB, 3:00)
Video for CSS by Jared Eberhardt
Stepback by Lisa Lindley-Jones – WIZ (2007, 24.4MB, 3:27)
Music video for “Stepback” by Lisa Lindley-Jones.
By WIZ via Factory Films
RJD2 – Work It Out (2007, 28MB, 3:24)
Made by Joey Garfield at Ghost Robot
Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything (2007, 21.7MB, 4:00)
Another excellent video from The Liars
From The Directors Bureau
Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men(2009, 86MB, 4:49min)
Splendid bit of drôlerie from Dan Osborne, whose work
we’ve featured here before and certainly will again.
It’s funny, sure, but as with a good deal of Osborne’s work it
treads an interesting line between funny bone and heartstring.
Oh..alright..maybe heartstring is a bit strong but there’s a
certain, and a rather touching, melancholy lurking here.
Also – what is it about Mariah Carey and art video on the net?
Shadowplay (2004, 37.2MB, 1:34 min.)
audio: Joy Division. video treatment: yoshi sodeoka.
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (2006, 11.5MB, 3:00 min.)
Oooh you gotta love this beautiful video directed
by Robert Hales of HSI for the Gnarls Barkley
tune
Instant conductors : Tpada (40.3MB, 4:19 secs)
A piece by Brian Gibson which captures you with
its trance like visuals and experimental audio.
Instant conductors : tpada is part of a full length
album project created with a video camera to capture visuals
and audio then assembling them into a stunning form of art.
Using a range of different camera angles focused in on areas
from where the musical source is created, this forms an explosion
of creativity manifesting as hybrid song/video.
If you’re intrigued by this clip it’s well worth checking out
untitled project 3 which features
a short number on mini organ with video accompaniment.
Also download the 3 track EP for free at glimpsecontrol .
claudia and paul 4:55 pm (2008, 34.6MB, 1:00 min)
there’s whispering (2008, 21.6MB, 3:45 min)
Rather lovely work from Henry Gwiazda.
Claudia and Paul , in particular, is a shivers down the spine affair for me.
I’d been vaguely aware of Gwiazda before but never really explored his work
– I will definitely be looking carefully in future.
Beardbox (2009, 24.8MB, 2:44 min)
We’ve featured work by Gabriel Shalom here before.
Deft, witty and involving it was then & so it is here too.
Shalom is also public spirited and has just started up this
interesting looking blog for ‘Both theoretical & practical dialogue
about the future of the cinema’.
This combination of some serious thinking with high level technical chops
promises more of interest in the future -we’ll be watching.
For the moment, more here.
Weapon of Choice (2001, 37.1MB, 3:52 min)
Great Spike Jonze directed video for Fat Boy Slim’s
Weapon of Choice, featuring Christopher Walken.
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.
Another Chance – Philippe Andre (2001, 13.1MB, 4:57)
“Another Chance” by Roger Sanchez, directed by
Philippe Andre.
According to Andre, this video has received the most
MTV airtime in the dance category.
The girl in this video is my personal hero(ine).
Lazy Sunday (2005, 15.7MB, 2:22 min.)
“watch this video because it
We Are Gone (2008, 55.8MB, 2:50 min)
I was drawn to this because of its connection with the
sublime Howe Gelb ( he produced & plays on the album & it’s on
his OW-OM label), but it’s winning beyond that very good intial reason.
Ms Maki’s song & performance are quite lovely in their passionate restraint
& the video, directed by Scott Cudmore & shot by Lee Towndrow on,
I gather, though I’ve lost the link to the page that told me so, the ‘video’
setting of a stills cam, matches the song in passion, restraint & loveliness.
Cudmore and Towndrow pass, with flying colours, a very simple test
-anyone who can’t produce something affecting with the most minimal
of technical resources probably shouldn’t be making movies at all…
Drumsticks (2008, 32.1MB, 2:43 min)
I know no more about Doomtree than you can glean, gentle viewer, from their site
& their my space but this video simply fills me with joy.
First off, nothing with massed bicycles in it can be all bad but, over & above,
it’s something to do with the combination of skillz & almost palpable & somehow
innocent sincerity that just makes a beeline for my heart. Lovely.
Dream (2004, 11.9MB, 3:43 min)
2004 video from Dizzee Rascal
& director Dougal Wilson.
Utterly exhilarating.
The Ghost of You Lingers (2007, 22.9MB, 3:34)
Everything Hits At Once (2001, 17.8MB, 4:03)
Being objective about Spoon is hard for me. We have history.
I was way younger than I’ll admit when I bought Girls Can Tell,
upon its release.
Soon after followed a deep love for their range and growth as a band.
I watched band members come in and go out, Britt Daniel and Jim Eno
ultimately the utensil glue.
I went to shows. I screamed. I took pictures. I didn’t take video.
I tried to stay in the moments.
I still do these things. I went to a concert of theirs a few months back
and didn’t even take my camera inside.
They don’t come through my current town of residence as much, but when
they do, I’ll be there. I have every EP and 7″ single they’ve made.
It is important.
I watch these videos and I think about what it all means.
I don’t know who made any of these, which makes me an ignorant curator
and fan, but that praise isn’t the goal this time for me.
I just want to share some nice videos that mean something to me.
(Why else would I bother doing this at all?)
To follow a band, to know you wouldn’t make a documentary about them
if given the opportunity because it would forever alter your deep relationship
with who you believe them to be and what you believe their music means.
To watch, to listen as corporate radio realizes their greatness. It only took
eleven years. Twelve?
You see the videos that others make and think, okay. It is here. That’s okay.
These are better than okay.
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
