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The Insomniac City Cycles – Ran Slavin

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The Insomniac City Cycles Trailer (2004-2009, 60 MB, 1:56 min)
“A man wakes up with a bullet wound in an abandoned parking garage in Tel Aviv,
having lost his memory and a gun. As the man struggles to recall his recent past,
a woman wakes up in a Shanghai hotel from a similar dream.
A fragmented conversation with a stranger on the phone sets off a strange exploration
between the two.
Tel Aviv and Shanghai in a movie within a movie and a dream within a dream..
..In The Insomniac City Cycles Ran Slavin explores a world with internal logic built
on the axis of memory the real and the fantastic.
It is a travel through dream structures, events and un-foldings that inventively blend
mystery, neo-noir and science fiction genres with experimental film making techniques.”

Directed Written and Produced by Ran Slavin.

‘ZOOMER’ by Sam Huntley

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Zoomer (trailer) (2010, 26MB, 2:24 min.)

ZOOMER is a feature-length documentary about the life of Mary
DeBoutez Zellmer-Fenoglio, an eccentric and charismatic owner
of ‘Zoomer’s Treasures’ in Kansas, USA.
ZOOMER is Sam Huntley‘s first feature-length film and was entirely self-funded.

Markos Vamvakaris sings ‘Atakti’

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Atakti (196?, 11MB, 2:23 min)

Utterly compelling clip from a 1960s German documentary featuring a
spine tingling live performance in a Piraeus taverna by the great
rembetiko singer Markos Vamvakaris.
I could watch & listen all day.

PS I think atakti means ‘bad’ or ‘naughty’

Vito Acconci #1

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Claim Excerpts (clip, 1971, 1MB, 29 secs)

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Face Off (clip, 1972, 1MB, 28 secs)

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Open Book (clip, 1974, 1MB, 31 secs)

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Two Track (clip, 1971, 1MB, 31 secs)

Four tiny (in every respect) but nonetheless great clips
from the fearless, troubling & wonderful Vito Acconci in his writer &
video artist phase.
The clips are from the Video Data Bank site where you’ll
be pleased to know you can with seminal
(perhaps not the best choice of word) pieces by
Acconci and others for a mere $3600…
Or you could go and check out more of his work on UBUWEB..
Some stuff about the later Acconci coming shortly.

Wreck & Salvage – Fun with Muybridge

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Fun with Muybridge (2009, 18 MB, 1:30 min)

Conversations with Eadweard J. Muybridge.

By Wreck & Salvage – a package of three video producers:
Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk & Aaron Valdez

Music by Kevin Bewersdorf.

Two from The Silver Jews

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to the max (2005, 37.9MB, 3:30 min)

Sleeping is the Only Love
sleeping is the only love (2006, 7.2MB, 2:54 min)

From The Silver Jews.

Dieter Roth

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Dot (1960, 223KB, 40 sec.)

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Letter (1962, 1MB, 26 sec.)

Two films by the late Dieter Roth.

Brian Gibson – to the young, youth

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to the young, youth (195?/2008, 13 MB, 2:04 min)

Poignant & beautiful work from DVblog contributor Brian Gibson
gently & quirkily re-configuring footage shot by his late grandfather
on a European visit in the 50s.

Brian’s work is always striking, always affecting, but the secret extra
ingredient is the luminous intelligence underlying everything he does.

THE HERETICS – the story of the Women

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THE HERETICS (2009, 124 MB, 10:08 min)

THE HERETICS, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics

Punk Pacino

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1video (2006, 3.3MB, 14 sec.)

jimpunk does the loop on Pacino.

more jimpunk on dvblog.

Owen O’Toole – Super8 films

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Piza (1982, 13 MB, 2:44 min)

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Frames (1985, 31 MB, 6:25 min)

Early experimental Super8 films by Owen O’Toole.

Short interview with him here.

Deadlock

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Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)

from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.

Kurosawa trailers better than most entire films…

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Scandal – trailer (1950, 7.7MB, 1:38 min)


The Idiot – trailer (1951, 6.3MB, 1:22 min)

Don’t know whether these are the original, or re-edited, trailers
but they’re wonderful, wonderful.
Watch and marvel.
I know neither of these films but I can’t wait to get my sweaty
palms on the DVDs from Eureka Cinema’s Masters of Cinema series.

A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater

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A Scanner Darkly (trailer) (2006, 3MB, 1:15 min.)

“A Scanner Darkly” movie was filmed digitally and then animated
using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.
by Richard Linklater.

Eadweard Muybridge

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a couple waltzing – spinning disc (1893, 4MB, 2 sec. loop)

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a couple waltzing – mirror simulation (1893, 2.4MB, 2 sec. loop)

Endlessly fascinating work from luminary Eadweard Muybridge.
Read more here. See more here.

Henry Hills – Money

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Money (1985, 47MB, 14:27 min.)

Henry Hill

By Mica Scalin.

"Dreams That Money Can Buy" at Tate Modern

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In the Turbine Hall in 2006 and Realityfilm presented
a ‘psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret’ with live music by
The Real Tuesday Weld providing a new original score for the
film

When Clouds Clear

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When Clouds Clear (2008, 15.3MB, 2:26)

Directed by Anne Slick and Danielle Bernstein,
When Clouds Clear is a remarkably intimate portrait
of a tiny Ecuadorian village’s struggle against
mining companies that seek to take over (and destroy)
the land they have long cultivated as their home.

Shot on a lovely mix of Super 8, 16mm, and video
to show the complexities of different viewpoints, the
film is one of the most beautiful I have had the
privilege of viewing this year.

Robert Todd – NEST

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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.

DVblog will eat itself

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mouth study (2005, 7.8MB, 3:40 min)

Using footage from the ‘cutting edge cinema‘ thing
we posted here before Lewis LaCook,
created an utterly exuberant & assured piece of appropriation
video with 186,000 ideas per second.

Must Read After My Death

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Must Read After My Death – Morgan Dews (2007, 23.9MB, 1:47)

When a Hartford couple turns to psychiatry for help
with their marriage in 1960, things quickly spiral out
of control. Couples counseling, individual and group
therapy and 24-hour marathon sessions ensue. Their
four children suffer and are given their own psychiatrists.
Pills are prescribed, people are institutionalized, shock-therapy
is administered. This is an intimate story in the family

My Name Is Oona – Gunvor Nelson

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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.

Earth to Earth – Nick Scott

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Earth to Earth (2005, 23MB, 3:22 min.)

“This film was made according to the hardcore rules of Straight8, which gives
filmmakers a single roll of Super8, forcing them to edit in camera and shoot
every shot as a first take. You submit the exposed cartridge plus a separately
recorded soundtrack and hope that the two match up. Luckily ours turned out
OK and it was selected one of the straight8 Cannes finalists in 2005.

The idea came from having a crappy DVD player which kept skipping and I was
overcome by an incredible desire to drive a garden fork through the front of it –
you can see the result in the background.
We had great fun shooting the film, during which time it snowed heavily

More from Les Filmistes

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La vitesse – Toma (2005, 7MB, 1 min.)

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La Vitesse – Raphael (2005, 6.8 MB, 1 min.)

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La telephon portable – Linda (2005, 5.6MB, 1 min.)

Another round of videos from Les Filmistes Associ

By Mica.

Les Filmistes

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Le premier idee est toujours la meilleure – Jair (2005, 2.7MB, 1 min.)

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Les Suspense – Also (2005, 7.5 MB, 1 min.)

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By Mica.

Two Moon July – David Byrne and Phillip Glass

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David Byrne – Report from L.A. (1986, 49MB, 4:30 min.)

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Phillip Glass – Mad Rush (1986, 29MB, 3:17 min.)

Both of these pieces, although incredibly different in feel and nature, were
preformed for the “multidisciplinary event” which showcased “experimental
video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework”.
Shot at New York City’s infamous Kitchen, and broadcast on television sets
across the states in 1986, the production “reflects a moment when art centers
were experimenting with new modes of presenting the arts for television.”
Read more and see more here.

“More fun than you can shake your stick at”

Nicolas Provost – Bataille

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Bataille (clip) (2003, 1MB, 32 sec.)

“In Bataille, fragments from the Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon
are subject to a mirror effect. A scene in which two samurai fight
each other becomes a cosmic field of monsters where horror and
pain evoke beauty and joy.”
from Nicolas Provost.

Kurt Ralske – Alphaville

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Alphaville ( extract) (2008, 32.MB, 51 secs)

Rather fetching art-work-over of Godard’s
great film Alphaville, by Kurt Ralske.

Giles Perkins – Saturdays only

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Saturdays Only (2008, 50MB, 1:18 min)

We’re quite keen here at DVblog on Giles Perkins & his quirky &
beautiful Super8 work.
He also maintains the excellent all-things-Super8 site onsuper8.org.
You might remember his beach huts piece
or his Burnley Panopticon mini-documentary.
Here he turns his poetic but clear eye to “Britain’s oddest train
– the once a week Stockport to Stalybridge.”
A great way to kick off our new season…

Jillian Mcdonald – Screen Kiss

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Screen Kiss (clip) (2005, 3.1MB, 1:00 min.)

Jillian is trying to make Billy Bob Thornton jealous, inserting
herself into existing film clips and getting kisses from Daniel Day Lewis,
Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and Billy Bob