Soziale Plastik (1969, 9 MB, 1:47 min)
Joseph Beuys accepts the challenge to expose himself to the anonymous spectator,
in speechless close-up on a video monitor: the artist as
Category Archives: silent
Steven Ball – Aroundabout: Second Person Present
Aroundabout: Second Person Present (2011, 117MB, 4 min, silent)
Extracted from a longer work made for Steven Ball’s
Aroundabout blog
“I also showed it as part of a presentation of material from
Aroundabout I did at City Methodologies at the Slade,
where it was displayed looped continuously on a flat
screen monitor face up on the floor, while I ‘performed’
the blog with Powerpoint!”
Some of these expanded cinema folk do relish a challenge!
Even truncated & divorced from its performative context it stands
as a splendid bit of structural/formalist film/vid poetry.
Film by Samuel Beckett with Buster Keaton
Samuel Beckett‘s only venture into the medium of cinema, Film was written
in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964, directed by
Alan Schneider and featuring Buster Keaton. For the shooting Mr.
Beckett made his only trip to America. The film, which has no dialogue,
takes its basis Berkeley’s notion esse est percepti that is, to be is to be perceived.
Alice in Wonderland, 1903.
Alice in Wonderland (1903, 136MB, 9:32)
Enthralling first ever screen version of Alice in Wonderland
from 1903, lovingly restored by the folks at the BFI.
There’s no-one –no-one – who could not learn
something about film-making from this gem.
Nine minutes of sheer, grinning-with-joy delight.
Brody Condon – Resurrection (after Bouts)
Resurrection (after Bouts) (2007, 3.2 MB, 30 sec.)
“A non-interactive, animated recreation of the Resurrection scene
by Dieric Bouts from 1455 made using current game development
technology and visual styles.”
By Brody Condon.
Two Loops – Michael Szpakowski
Zach Layton – 2 videos
Gazira Babeli – Save Your Skin
Save Your Skin (2007, 4 MB, 1:03 min)
Save Your Skin – stolen skins, scripted environment,
where the skins of avatars are being put on display.
A Second Life performance by Gazira Babeli.
Sun Capture – Julianne Swartz
Sun Capture (1999, 9.6 MB, 1:23 min.)
Transferring the reflection of a natural occurrence (the movement of the sun)
from outdoors to indoors, Brooklyn-based artist Julianne Swartz creates
her site-specific installation “Sun Capture” with existing architecture, metal pole,
mirror, sun, and wind.
