Category Archives: conceptual

Boling & Morales – Mad as a Box of Badgers

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sleighride
Sleighride (2006, 63MB, 4:30 min)

church
the church of the future (2006, 28.5MB, 2:39 min)

There’s a rather un-PC expression current in estuary English:
mental. Its semantic nuances don’t lend themselves to easy explanation.
It implies a kamikaze degree of chutzpah, often in a physical
context but also by metaphorical extension to any field of
behaviour & often expressing a kind of stunned admiration.
Well, watch the vids & deny if you can that John Michael Boling
+ Javier Alberto Morales ( collaborators on the visuals, JAM does the music on
sleighride) and owners of
www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
are totally fucking mental

Resexed Pistols – Antonio Mendoza

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Resexed Pistols
Resexed Pistols (2006, 6.4MB, 2:06 min)

“another remix of the sex pistols piece you posted a while ago..
i had been working on it awhile ago then i went on vacation… and when
i saw the valdez piece, i felt someone had been searching my harddrive.
then i saw the piece (which is great) and realized that they’re quite
different, even though they tread in the same arena… i don’t know why so many
of us have been attracted to redoing the same clip (remember jimpunk did
another remix), but here is my mine.”
from Antonio Mendoza – Mr. Tamale.

Aaron Valdez – Anarchy Delayed

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Anarchy (Slight Delay)
Anarchy (Slight Delay) (2006, 17.8MB, 3:23 min.)

In which Aaron Valdez takes the Sex Pistols vid from
these very pages and..er..does stuff to it.
Explains Aaron:
‘This is the second entry in a study (or me messing around) with audio
and video delay. I did a Bob Dylan one way back. Nothing new but
interesting nonetheless. I made three tracks of video each offset by
6 frames then I cut out three frames alternating between those three
tracks. It

Mohammed Rafi – Jaan Pehechan Ho

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jan pehechaan
Jaan Pehechan Ho (1966, 55.4MB, 5:33 min)

Clip from the 1966 film Gumnaam sung by
Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi, which you might
recognise from the opening sequence of Ghost World.
There’s the full lyrics & several translations here.
From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

Kevin Flanagan – Transformations

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transformations
Transformations v 1.0 (2007, 54MB, 2:47 min)

We’ve featured some of Irish artist Kev Flanagan’s work here
before.
He’s just started a new video blog which manifests a radically different
approach to that of his previous work.
Here’s an example – it’s slow (in a good sense), meditative and hypnotic.
Kev says he’s been looking at a lot of Chris Marker’s work – I can see that high
seriousness coming through, but this puts me in mind more of Tarkovsky or
particularly Tarkovsky’s sensibility in the face of natural phenomena.

Dog Toothed Jewels

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DogToothedJewels
Dog Toothed Jewels (2004, 44.1MB, 7:20 min.)

Strange art fairy tale from artist Jerelyn Hanrahan,
seen at the VIII Digital Colloquium
in Havana last June.
I like the narrative drive of this piece which,
coupled with the intensely personal, almost arcane,
iconography, gives it a quite unsettling character.

O’Reilly – Ident

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David O’Reilly – Ident (2007, 2.1MB, 0:47)

A quirky short from David O’Reilly, via music video
production company Colonel Blimp.

Razr: Gondry

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Michel Gondry for MotoRazr2 (2007, 7.4MB, 1:01)

I have to admit I’d find this more interesting if
Michel Gondry had actually used a Razr to record footage.
In this case, cell phone company Motorola commissioned
the music video director-cum-hipster filmmaker to make
a “film based on the experience of their new Razr2 phone.”
I wish using my phone was half as interesting.
I’ve also heard these are hideous devices, image appeal aside.
I’m fairly certain it didn’t deserve its own short film, but I digress.
Classic Gondry: pretty and predictably whimsical.

Two Snow Lumières by Mike Moon

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Shoveling
Shoveling (2007, 14.1MB, 1:00 min)

Snowlight
Snow Light, Snow Bright (2007, 15.2 MB, 52 secs)

Delicate; restrained, almost austere.
Which qualities the key, or better the bridge, to the richness,
the depth, of two perfectly judged Lumières

Domestic Safari – Anders Weberg & Robert Willim

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Domestic Safari
Domestic Safari (2007, 63.4MB, 10:32 min)

We’ve shown work by Anders Weberg and Robert Willim here before.
It’s always both perfectly executed & intriguing.
This piece is no exception.
Here’s the creators’ commentary:

‘What if we started to see the material worlds of
domestic settings as wild places?
Is there a potential for the exotic and uncanny in the
inconspicuously mundane?

Domestic Safari is a journey through three different
homes in three different European countries.
The film and its soundtrack is based entirely on manipulated
recordings from the three places in Finland, Italy and Sweden.
This audiovisual excursion aims to call forth imaginaries
and a profane illumination that disorient and estrange
the materialities of everyday reality.’