I Want To See How You See (2003, 55.2MB, 4:48 min)
Hallucinatory, luscious, with a hint of darkness: approaching the
formulaic but, if so, certainly a winning formula for Rist & as
always undoubtedly beautifully & imaginatively wrought,
a video portrait of the writer & curator Cornelia Providoli,
found on the consistently excellent Lumen Eclipse site.
Short analog video by Portland based artist Erica Schreiner.
Music by by Prussia.
Ice Flowers – and my cat was so curious (2007, 23.5MB, 3:59 min)
shame (2007, 14.8MB, 2:27 min)
From 2007: first beauty tout court, then beauty with a big sting in the tail.
From Loiez Deniel, all of whose work is worth spending time with.
Marie Menken – Glimpse of the Garden (1957, 40MB, 5:04)
Marie Menken, avant-garde filmmaker of the 1940s, 50s,
and 60s – in addition to being the inspiration for
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Warhol
superstar – made inspirational work from a time we seem
to overlook too much today. The garden here belongs
to one of her husband’s former male lovers, and while
Menken was often criticized for being quaint in her displays,
her style is an obviously feminine one that hides much
deeper meaning in ordinary but stunning visuals.
Flowers (2010, 52 MB, 3:16 min)
I really hated this piece, a music video for Former Ghosts,
the first time I saw it, although I’d previously enjoyed work
by Paul Rodriguez and posted some here.
My first impressions were confirmed by a trawl through
the publicity material surrounding it:
“A naked dude gets peed on in this disturbing clip from the electro-goth
project led by Freddy Ruppert. Director: Paul Rodriguez….”
which seemed a tad..er..calculating
I was so bemused by how much I took against the piece
that I watched it several times over to try and analyse my reactions
and the more I looked at it the more the sheer deftness,
care and feel for the medium with which it is made began to
prevail over my dislike of the content.
Rodriguez confirms himself a filmmaker of real talent, with a great eye
and superb attention to detail.
I’m not sure someone possessed of his gifts needs to work so hard to
make us look his way but I remain very interested to see where he goes next.
Documentation from 1993-2008 (2008, 220MB, 35:12 min.)
This video is kind of long but worth every penny of it.
Best of the show, Daisy Bell (2008) at the end of the reel.
From the impressive and beautiful Jennifer Steinkamp.
QuantumMatter (2005, 3.7 MB 31 sec.)
QuantumSpace(2005, 3MB, 40 sec.)
QuantumLife (2005, 3.3MB, 27 sec.)
A series of moving images from Charlene Rule.
By Mica Scalin.
Stapelia Ophelia (2005, 2.7MB, 1:23 min.)
‘The corpse flower’ in the window is getting louder, I can hardly
think. There is no running away from the smell, the sound is
deafening if you listen closely. The flowers keep coming back, I
cannot stop them. There is wind & rain as well, now, as I am seeing
the clip much later, the elements without which the day would be void.
Moves and Shadows (2008, 17.5MB, 3:17 min)
3:17 min of visual enchantment from the genius Dane
in this utterly ravishing dance vid.
Armenia: Mandelstam (2007, 16.3MB, 3:24 min)
Track 4 (2007, 10.3MB, 1:46 min)
A couple of rather evocative & lyrical pieces from Paul Kelly
about whom I know very little.
On his site he’s says he’s reluctant to join the
online fray, publicising his work.
Know how he feels, but I’m glad he got in touch with us
& we’re pleased to show his stuff here- it deserves an audience.
