Category Archives: conceptual

Carey/Laric/Stracke

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Laric/Carey
Touch My Body (Oliver Laric version) (2008, 40.9MB, 4:18 min)

Laric/Carey
No Mariah (Caspar Stracke version) (2008, 52MB, 4:03 min)

OK, pay attention! This is complicated.
Ms Carey (or her corporate minders) release a video, which if she did have
a significant part to play in it shows such a staggering lack of self esteem
that a kind of dark despair begins to envelop me.
Artist Oliver Laric remixes it, removing all the backgrounds and replacing it with
green, for ease of a certain species of remixing.
There follows what is actually an interesting and nuanced exchange of views.
Then Caspar Stracke posts the second of our videos & MTAA make a
very funny joke.

White Winter Hymnal

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White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes (2008, 5.7MB, 2:28)

Beautifully poignant music video from Fleet Foxes,
directed by super talented Sean Pecknold.

Jillian Mcdonald – Screen Kiss

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Screen Kiss
Screen Kiss (clip) (2005, 3.1MB, 1:00 min.)

Jillian is trying to make Billy Bob Thornton jealous, inserting
herself into existing film clips and getting kisses from Daniel Day Lewis,
Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and Billy Bob

Sam Renseiw again

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birthday
patafilm #609 (2008, 18.2MB, 4:27 min)

No excuse offered or needed to show work by the Danish
magician, Sam Renseiw. (When I called him the ‘genius Dane’
here a little while ago, he wrote me, modestly demurring,
but he is, Dear Reader, he is. Both.)
He says “…still imbricated in the subtle magic of simple things
and situations…”, which is unusually accurate for an artist
self assessment.
Beautiful work.

Toaster

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Morgan Schwartz – Toaster (2001, 7.3MB, 3:30)

From Morgan Schwartz.

Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study Video Brochure

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PIFAS

Rather wonderful piece from Shawn Kornhauser & Brandon Joyce
who seem to exist in a strange crevice between real Philadelphia & well…some other one.
The layers of japes & spoofery multiply exponentially but something near the truth,
whatever that is, can be found here, here &
here.
I think.

Creation Myth by Robert Todd

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Robert Todd – Creation Myth (2007, 39.3MB, 5:46)

Robert Todd is a master of 16mm. With an enormous
catalog behind him and no sign of his work ceasing in
the near future, Todd is slowly migrating his work onto
his personal website.
What a treat for us.

This piece, Creation Myth, is one of several I will repost
here over time, to show respect for these subtle, moving
visions.

Todd says: “Love of sky, love of earth and air, with
water helping us along form the backdrop to this
reflection of life-essence and its evolution.”

And, full disclosure: Rob has previously been my
professor, and I personally consider him one of
the kindest, most knowledgeable and professional
working artists under whom I have had the privilege
of studying. I wish I had been better able to absorb
his teachings at the time. He is truly a Bolex genius.

Grizzly Bear – Knife

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Knife (2007, 67 MB, 5:50 min.)

“Death Valley is hot. We wouldn

Nameless Films

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Croque Quartet
Croque Quartet (2007, 29.5MB, 2:05 min)

Didn
I Didn’t Say That (2007, 45.8MB, 3:14 min)

Writer, musician, artist & general polymath Talan Memmott turns his attention
to film in this series of shorts made in collaboration with Sandy Florian.
They say
Nameless is a collaboration between Sandy Florian and Talan Memmott…
they make excessively short experimental narrative films, mostly in Paris…

Short they may be but Florian & Memmott’s works are assured, quirky,
evocative & entertaining.
You can see the whole series to date here .

The Loneliness of the Species

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Krista Birnbaum – Agatha and Bernice (2006, 35.2MB, 4:12)

The Loneliness of the Species is a three-video series
by Krista Birnbaum, featuring little white mice friends
and their respective teacups. The first features a mouse
named Constance, who roams his china playground alone.
The second (seen here) and third videos show the coming
together of Agatha and Bernice. A pleasure for animal
lovers, a simple, elegant piece about companionship and solitude.