Limbo (2008, 26.3MB, 3:08 min)
We’ve shown Donna Kuhn’s work couple of times before.
Look at the trajectory.
It’s always been impressive but there’s a new note here:
a confidence & ambition that is really striking.
It’s a cliche but cliches are nonetheless sometimes true
-here’s someone who has found a very personal
voice & learned how sing with it in a sophisticated
& affecting way.
More here.
Moves and Shadows (2008, 17.5MB, 3:17 min)
3:17 min of visual enchantment from the genius Dane
in this utterly ravishing dance vid.
Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor (2008, 26.6MB, 3:42)
Yeah yeah, more hipster music videos. But they’re so good!
Hot Chip’s second single from their newest album,
featuring their front man in various Joker references,
including the line, “You’re my number one guy,”
originally used repeatedly in 1989’s Batman.
See? You know you love it.
From Nima Nourizadeh.
Tribulations (2005, 17.6MB, 3:59)
As the resident DVblog 20-something pseudo-hipster,
I’m almost contractually obligated to post video like this.
LCD Soundsystem makes insanely danceable tracks,
sometimes clocking in well over twelve minutes,
always ironically self-referential and poking fun
at their main demographic (who may/not be getting the joke).
So here is the 2005 hit single’s clever music video.
Girls with barrettes and men in women’s pants everywhere rejoice.
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
O:.O:.O:.(2007, 47.3MB, 59 sec loop)
Quite extraordinary dance video from Jaygo Bloom.
What I love about it is the wonderfully insouciant way
it both references and evokes early modernism
(Calder is cited as a source/inspiration by Bloom) but is also
(and could not be other than) utterly contemporary.
Great! So great it makes me totally jealous!
Camera: Patrick Jamieson and Anna Druka
Music: Hammerschmidt
she-shoe (2007, 39.1MB, 5:20 min.)
Extraordinary & energetic collab between pianist/singer/dancer
Debora Petrina and film maker Luigi De Frenza.
SHE HAS HER HAND IN A SHOE!!!
GOT IT???
OK.
Estate Life (2007, 48.4MB, 5:16 min.)
Made earlier this year as part of Epping Forest Arts’ Homelife project,
this video features parkour work by a group of young people
from the Limes Farm Estate in Chigwell, UK.
In particular check out the sudden backflip off the garden
wall about half way through – scary!
Shot using conventional DV camera, stills camera, a cheap mpeg4 machine &
an inverted sugar bowl.
Video made by Michael Szpakowski with additional camera work
by Vicky Tebbs & Charlotte Harris.
cannonball (1996, 32.6MB, 3:35 min.)
Hi all,
This was recorded at the Blockbuster Video grand opening in Daphne,
Alabama, US, on December 6, 1996. They had a video karaoke machine
with a bluescreen, and you could choose your song and they would tape
you and give you a copy of the videotape. I think I might have also
had the option to select “Sci-fi” background or something like that.
The whole process took about five minutes and this was the result.
Some close friends refer to this as the highlight of my artistic
career, and sometimes I am inclined to agree with them.
Enjoy,
Curt.
I don’t fix a word (2006, 4.5 MB, 2:16 min)
Mini-Me (2005, 12.1MB, 2:25 min)
These two videos by Donna Kuhn were made in circumstances of terrible
personal loss: the death of her son & then later that of a close friend.
Astonishing then, their delicacy & richness & the sheer dexterity of
handling & making, particularly in I don’t fix a word which
is a jewel, a small masterpiece.