Infinite Smile (2005, 10.1MB, 2:43 min. loop)
Self-portrait of MTAA smiling and blinking.
(M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.)
Category Archives: conceptual
A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (1)
waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.)
move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.)
stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.)
Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’
by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.
This is very smart work indeed – it references, or better evokes, ideas & precedents
& techniques from all over world culture high & low & I’m sure this is conscious.
The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5’s short history of virtual hiking,
featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all & the dry
keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional
romanticism about nature & the landscape to sneak back in.
Not a criticism. Me, I love it.
They’re back!
The Postman walks with a spring in his step –They’re back!–
The little girl with freckles & pigtails tumbles joyfully headlong
down the street –They’re back!–
Even Fr. Pinault seems to twinkle ever so slightly..
Now, old Cottard stumbles cantankerously into the boulangerie.
-I don’t understand why everyone’s so damned cheerful today-
-Why, M’sieu, haven’t you heard? They’re back!
The FluxFilms are back on UbuWeb! –
George Maciunas: ‘Ten Feet’
George Landow/Owen Land: ‘The Evil Faerie’ (although
Landow/Land denies authorship – it has been suggested
this piece was actually made by John Cavanaugh)
Paul Sharits: ‘Sears Catalogue 1-3′
Union Docs – #3
Union Docs – #2
Moon & People Watching
Millie Watching Martha Watching Moon (2007, 18.7MB, 26 sec)
Millie in SUV Watching Martha and David Watching Moon (2007, 1.67MB, 10 sec)
Does exactly what it says on the package & poetry too.
See more from Millie & Martha.
Ken Turner #9 – foot
foot of desire (2006, 8.16MB, 1:15 min)
Last movie in our Ken Turner season.
S’been great – love to show more in the future Ken!
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
Union Docs – Three Whiteboard Pieces – #1
whiteboard #1 (2007, 21.2MB, 3:09 min)
Hmm..this might be controversial but it strikes me that Union Docs ,
an NYC based documentary arts collaborative are flirting with something
one might loosely call documentary formalism.
Well, I’m a sucker for formalism, the proviso of course
being it generates something I care about.
This does (although it seems to pushing the far boundary
of the ‘documentary’ category – I’d be interested in
UD’s thoughts about what constitutes this).
So, thinking going on…good! good!
Looks to be lots of other interesting stuff on their
site too.
Two more to come.
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Random Acts & Inner Politics
Random Acts & Inner Politics (2006, 25.4MB, 1:57 min)
Nicely intense piece from Ryan Seslow.
Intense & urgent, which urgency gives it an interesting
forward momentum, a disregard for the nice finish & a
real punch.
There’s a visual confidence, almost a swagger, which I like
very much, too.
I’m not convinced all of Ryan’s work succeeds equally,
and I find some of the surrounding rhetoric a little
mystifying but it’s clear there’s something both
interesting & driven happening here.
Work to watch.