The Insomniac City Cycles – Ran Slavin

Posted on April 26, 2010 by doron

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

Posted on March 31, 2010 by doron

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’

Posted on March 26, 2010 by michael

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

Posted on January 25, 2010 by michael

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

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

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

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

Posted on January 22, 2010 by doron

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

Posted on November 30, 2009 by doron

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

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

From The Silver Jews.

Dieter Roth

Posted on November 25, 2009 by michael

Dot (1960, 223KB, 40 sec.)

Letter (1962, 1MB, 26 sec.)

Two films by the late Dieter Roth.

Brian Gibson – to the young, youth

Posted on November 3, 2009 by michael

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.