Category Archives: abstract
White Piano – Timothy McConville
Timothy McConville – White Piano (2009, 26.7MB, 2:21)
Video by Timothy McConville for his own band
Duchess’ song “White Piano”
Jennifer Steinkamp – Documentation from 1993-2008
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.
Everyone Everywhere
The Landjugend – Everyone Everywhere (2007, 64.5MB, 3:56)
Made from the music of fifteen artists, for/in collaboration
with bizarro record label Cock Rock Disco, by
The Landjugend, which is Markus Feder & Martin Sulzer.
Soft Cinema – Interview with Lev Manovich
lev_interview_1 (2003, 2MB, 2:12 min.)
lev_interview_2 (2003, 2MB, 2:08 min.)
lev_interview_3 (2003, 2.5MB, 2:14 min.)
lev_interview_4 (2003, 2.7MB, 1:45 min.)
A 4 part interview on Soft Cinema with Lev Manovich –
the Mecca of new media arts.
DEAF 03, Rotterdam.
Also: “On Database Driven Movies”.
Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything
Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything (2007, 21.7MB, 4:00)
Another excellent video from The Liars
From The Directors Bureau
Winds Across the Inner Sea – John F. Simon
threshold (2007, 4.4MB, 2:56 min.)
This body of work by John F. Simon was shown in September 2007
in a solo show at the Gering & Lopez Gallery in New York City.
Playing between instinct and idea, this series of large-scale compositions
combine laser cut Formica and LCD screens with endlessly changing software.
Each composition merges the physicality of the material world with the fluid
inner world of code. The LCD screen functions simultaneously as a visual element
of the surface and a window into the system’s evolution.
Talan Memmott – land/wave
land/wave:02.08 (2009, 39MB, 1:10 min)
land/wave:03.02 (2009, 42MB, 1:17 min)
These pieces stand in stark and interesting contrast to the
magic realist whimsy of Memmott’s collabs with Sandy Florian
which we showed here a few months back.
I’d be interested to know whether these new works are completely,
as it were, synthesised or whether, lurking at the back,
there’s some real world footage.
The first piece puts me in mind quite forcibly of a journey by train
(as if the abstract shapes and images had been piled upon some
manipulated footage thereof..)
Dunno.
Good though! –striking. Talan?
Daquar at the Nordic Light Hotel
Daquar at the Nordic Light Hotel (2008, 40MB, 3:38)
Excerpt from short film made for the Nordic Light Hotel,
from Swedish art and design company Daquar.
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.
Robert Todd – NEST
Robert Todd – NEST (2008, 33.2MB, 4:36)
More from the brilliant, always poignant Robert Todd.
The NEST is a place of resting, but for the restless spirit,
it is a moving island. Here we find silence, if not solace.
This film is both the third in a series and the first of a
trilogy. To understand how it fits within Todd’s vision,
you should go watch more on his site. It will take your
breath away.
My Name Is Oona – Gunvor Nelson
Gunvor Nelson – My Name Is Oona (1969, 26.9MB, 9:12)
Historic piece from the Swedish filmmaker about her daughter.
Typical of Gunvor’s work, this film addresses themes about
nature, childhood, and maintains an ethereal quality.
Excellent early piece from a uniquely talented woman.
Sally – by Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer
Sally is a project by Poly-Xelor (collaboration between Roel Wouters
and Luna Maurer). Sally is a movie for the project ‘Grote kunst voor kleine mensen‘
and has been be presentend at cinekid 2005, @ the Stedelijk museum.
The movie shows marbles in a room. The gravitation of the room is variable
therefore the marbles will dance over the floor, walls and ceiling.
Xologola – Michael Robinson
Xologola (2007, 49.3MB, 1:18 min)
DeK, from no fat clips!!!, recommends this piece by Michael Robinson
with sound by Bish.
It’s undeniably skilfully made & pretty though I can’t help wishing
more happened.
There’s a moment, about 1:06, where we seem to be gearing up
for some visible variation in tempo & geometry but the moment
passes & the piece ends.
Nonetheless one can’t help but admire the process:
… made up of scans and pictures of branches,
broken and scratched glass, and digitally painted textures…