ex Local Authority (2005, 156 MB, 6:59 min)
Over the Borough Island (2009, 63 MB, 1:51 min)
Two longer pieces from Steven Ball some of whose
Direct Language pieces we posted here last week.
Both pieces are great but I have particular soft spot for
ex Local Authority which, although I’m sure it
has all sorts of potent intellectual justifications for being is also,
quite simply, austerely & melancholically gorgeous.
Direct Language 2.4 (2006, 6.5 MB, 2:55 min)
Direct Language 4.5 (2007, 7.5 MB, 1:20 min)
Direct Language 3.0 (2006, 1.5 MB, 52 sec, silent)
Strange fragments of worked over reality which
lodge in the unconscious like splinters.
From Steven Ball’s excellent Direct Language
project – well worth spending some time there.
More recent work from him soon.
Fall Was Kind (2009, 40 MB, 2:57 min)
Well, we’re a season out, but it somehow feels altogether
appropriate to feature this bit of tranquil & melancholy loveliness
on a holiday day like today.
(Made, BTW, by yet another School of Athens alumnus, Jason Miller)
We’re going to take a short break ourselves now, but we’ll be back,
batteries fully re-charged, on January 4th.
We wish everone a happy & peaceful holiday season.
Shadow Dance (Alex Gordon-Shotton, 2009, 15 MB, 7 sec silent loop)
Liquid Dance (Jonathan Beards, 2009, 192 MB, 5:55 min)
Two more great dance related pieces, sophisticated &
beautiful both, from Tees/Art/Blog last year.
Dead Plants (2009, 36 MB, 1:24 min)
Another from the seemingly inexhaustible (but always pleasantly individual)
film seam at the School of Athens.
This is a lovely understated little study of ..er..dead plants, which fuses quirk,
a certain menace and a strange found beauty into something very satisfying.
Brantley Jones seems to live a double life – his website contains much more
“well made” stuff.
It will be interesting to see where he heads, eventually.
PS Also, how can you not warm to someone who lists the late great
David Foster Wallace as inspiration?
Tuilleries (2005, 480KB, 6 sec.)
Divining (2005, 2.1MB, 30 sec.)
A few gems from Littlewhile, a vlog (no longer with us)
which featured non-fiction clips.
Tonite (Reprise) (2009, 13 MB, 3:16 min)
By Eileen Maxson. Exhibited at video_dumbo 2009.
A Month of Sundays (2009, 65 MB, 4:54 min)
Last &, in my view, the best of Sebastian Hernandez’ DIY or Die
series of documentaries, which we’ve been delighted to
be able to feature here in the past few weeks.
I found them all well made, engaging and informative.
This one I also found profoundly moving.
We look forward to featuring more of Sebastian’s work
in the not too distant future.
