moose and atv (2005, 2MB, 46 sec.)
springwater finale (2005, 6.5MB, 2:27 min.)
Final two pieces, chapters 7 & 8, from
Category Archives: strange
Spike Jonze –Weapon of Choice
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.
Monochrom – Killing Capitalism with Christmas
Kiki and Bubu and the Feelings (2008, 48.9MB, 4:48 min)
More splendid agit-puppetry from monochrom.
Brian Gibson – Lincoln
Lincoln (2008, 69MB, 7:36 min)
Typically exquisite bit of work from poet of the video
& occasional contributor here, Brian Gibson.
Two from Pash
Ludwig Poos Schwabe (2007, 36MB, 1:20 min)
1st Ping-Pong Lesson With Lucha Lib (2008, 31.2MB, 4:18 min)
Even 18 years after the wall came down there’s still a quite palpable
residue of the great absurdist tradition that flourished under Stalinism in work
being made in the former Eastern bloc.
(Of course it goes back further, to
Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study Video Brochure
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.
Grizzly Bear – Knife
Knife (2007, 67 MB, 5:50 min.)
“Death Valley is hot. We wouldn
Psycho Bob – Bob And The Neighbors
Bob And The Neighbors (2008, 10 MB, 1:10 min.)
“Another lazy Sunday in Bob’s neighbourhood; while Bob works on
his yard, his nosy neighbor crosses the line, forcing Bob to take
matters into his own hands.”
From The AV Club.
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat – Throw the Jew Down the Well
Peace (2005, 19.7MB, 2:46 min)
This Borat performance at a country-western bar in Tucson, Arizona
provoked a sharp letter from the Anti-Defamation League.
‘Embedded’ – Alan Sondheim in Santa Monica
restart (2006, 9KB, 4 min. loop)
We’re Alan Sondheim fans here at dvblog.
When so much work on the web is banal & lacking in ambition
he is an antidote, a tonic, a reason to hope.
His restless energy & intelligence transmute everything
he engages with into art (remember Picasso & those handlebars?)
Those living in the Santa Monica area might have seen his installation
‘embedded’ (also including work by filmmaker Leslie Thornton)
at the Track 16 gallery in 2006.