Lev Manovich – Little Movies #3

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Classical Cinema II (1994-98, 1MB, 20 secs)

manovich #6
On the Transient Nature of an Electronic Image(1994-98, 3MB, 1:47 min)

Original post

Lev Manovich – Little Movies #2

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A Single Pixel (1994-98, 2MB, 43 secs)

manovich #4
Classical Cinema I (1994-98, 1MB, 34 secs)

Original post

Elodie Pong – Secrets For Sale (048)

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Secret 048 (2007, 27 MB, 10:57 min.)

And another…
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Lev Manovich – Little Movies #1

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Binary Code (1994-98, 2MB, 52 secs)

manovich #2
On the Ephemeral Nature of Little Movies (1994-98, 3MB, 1:05 min)

I mentioned the Manovich Little Movies in the post I did the
other week on Eryk Salvaggio’s ‘Unfinished Mpeg Haiku’.
In the course of writing that I went to Manovich’s site to look at them
& was surprised to find that their page was in some disarray
and the movies themselves had been removed.
Nor could I find them either in the version archived on the Rhizome Artbase.

It seems a shame for them not to be available -they’re historical
(and in many ways amazingly presecient) documents at the least,
although I find them – especially the last one – gripping and touching too.

Then I remembered the wonderful Wayback Machine and I found them
there, all snug and safe and sound.

We’ll post them here in twos in the next week or so,
in the order in which they appeared in Manovich’s
original presentation of them.
Although the image linking to it has been removed from the site
Manovich’s very interesting statement remains.
(I guess if that goes too you’ll still be able to Wayback it)

Tabor Robak – 2 short loops

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Scream (2010, 4 MB, 5 sec. loop)

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Bidet (2010, 4 MB, 2 sec. loop)

By Tabor Robak.

Elodie Pong

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Secret 044 (2007, 10 MB, 4:27 min.)

Another secret.
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Suzon Fuks – RINGS from #1 to #6

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RINGS from #1 to #6 (2009, 24 MB, 6:35 min.)

An ongoing series (now numbering six) of one-minute unedited shots which
can each stands alone. Improvised choreography multi-reprojected on body parts,
with James Cunningham, Helen Varley Jamieson, Scotia Monkivitch and Suzon Fuks.
Text by Fernand Shirren.

By Suzon Fuks.

Elodie Pong

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Secret 040 (2006, 3 MB, 1:16 min.)

Secret from “Secrets For Sale”, a film which reveals the radical
ADN/ARN experience, an interactive installation addressed to one
person at the time, in which each visitor was invited to confide and
then contractually sell a personal secret.
Project by Elodie Pong.

Zach Layton – 2 videos

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Displacement Curves (2006, 18 MB, 25 sec.)

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Day of the Locust (2006, 1 MB, 42 sec.)

By Zach Layton.

Alan Sondheim: large tree-scan world images

Treee
treee (2006, 2.28MB, 1:03 min)

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treees 3 (2006, 5.86MB, 38 sec)

treees 8
treees 8 (2006, 9.15MB, 58 sec)

“similar to a scanning electron microscope, two images of a moving tree
with enormous detail were stitched together, warped, merged, and
analyzed at every stage. the result is a planetary configuration; one can travel
for at least an hour or two through the detailing. at times threads or
tubes appear; at times there are planes, sharpened edges, odd holes and
gaps. a tetrahedral mapping was employed.

it is this acute exploration of acute angles of inner worlds that
fascinates me. the mp4 file is small and an enormous amount of detail
is lost, but you get the idea. there are videos as well of course.
here is the resurrection of encapsulated movement-into-landscape of a
five-story tree outside the virtual environments laboratory at west
virginia”

Alan Sondheim