Tea Tree (2008, 12.3MB, 2:24 min)
Waterball (2008, 20.9MB, 2:23 min)
Not that much to add to what we’ve said before.
More work, careful, modest, austere and somehow darkly
(& I don’t just mean the light or lack of) beautiful, from Kev Flanagan.
Category Archives: observational
The USA. Be Proud.
Hillbilly USA (2005, 7MB, 1:41 min.)
A beautifully executed found object hillbilly
masterpiece. From – Borders Perrin Norrander
Thomson & Craighead – Template Cinema – RealTime
Short Film about Nothing (Realtime. 3:40 min.)
Template Cinema– is a networked installation by –
Thomson & Craighead.
It generates lo-fi movies made from existing data
appropriated in realtime from the world wide web.
Watch a sample movie.
Know Your Meme – Single Serving Sites
Single Serving Sites (2008, 30MB, 4:44 min.)
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies presents its findings
on Single Serving Sites
Tinjail – Dante
Nira Pereg – G Spotting
G Spotting (2003, excerpt, 4MB, 1 min.)
“G Spotting is a search for the pleasure zone of the look. In keeping
with commands, which are read out aloud, the camera moves horizontally
and vertically over an architectural landscape towards what seems like
pleasure zones. Although the search is visual, the image remains unplanned,
following the sound and carrying out each command. While using the urban
landscape as a chart of the female body, the work touches on the themes of
surveillance, modern weaponry and pornography.”
by Israeli video artist Nira Pereg.
Ash Sechler – 2 movies
Transformation (2009, 15.5MB, 1:18 min)
Representation of Memory (2006, 75.4MB, 2:22 min)
Clearly there is something in the water in Athens, Georgia giving us,
as it has, John Michael Boling & Javier Morales, John Crowe,
Dan Osborne, Brantley Jones and now Ash Sechler.
Hmm – The School of Athens, Georgia.
There’s no common style but there is a certain sensibility which,
curiously, pervades the quiet meditative stuff as well as the more
out-there and bizarre – it’s a species of wryness combined with an
eye for the casually arresting, odd and beautiful.
It’s exemplified here in both these rather good pieces, though I particularly
like Representation of Memory.
Sam Renseiw – Blind Voodles
Blind Voodle #1 (2009, 57.4MB, 6:25 min)
Blind Voodle #2 (2009, 31.6MB, 3:35 min)
Oneiric gorgeousness from the magnificent Sam Renseiw.
Dan Osborne – Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men
Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men(2009, 86MB, 4:49min)
Splendid bit of drôlerie from Dan Osborne, whose work
we’ve featured here before and certainly will again.
It’s funny, sure, but as with a good deal of Osborne’s work it
treads an interesting line between funny bone and heartstring.
Oh..alright..maybe heartstring is a bit strong but there’s a
certain, and a rather touching, melancholy lurking here.
Also – what is it about Mariah Carey and art video on the net?
Cinzia Cremona – Solo Show
Solo Show (2006, 25MB, 6:22 min.)
Solo Show takes the viewer on a short trip in a complicit game of art making.
The image overlaps the body of the viewer with that of the artist. As the frame
moves from place to place, formats and titles are recalled in an attempt to
uncover the dynamics of making meaning by calling things art.
by Cinzia Cremona.