Wakefield Gala – clip (1920s?, 1.1MB, 23 sec.)

Munitions Factory – clip (1940s, 884KB, 21 sec.)

Berry Picking – clip (1950s ?, 891KB, 20 sec.)

Three clips from the Yorkshire Film Archive in the UK.
& a glimpse of some lost worlds.
It’s a crime more of these films are not digitised & available
for immediate view & that the online documentation is so poor.
Makes one doubly thankful for the wonderful Prelinger Archive…

Encore II (radioactive) (2004, 11.5MB, 3:31 min.)

Isaac Julien is one of Britain’s most innovative and provocative filmmakers.
He has been involved with forging a new language around black representation.
Although his works largely retain a conventional narrative approach, they are shot
through with strategies which then serve to disrupt the stability of this narrative.
Above – Encore II from tank.tv.

Vagabondia (clip, 2000, 6.6MB, 1:46 min.)

Paradise Omeros (clip, 2002, 24.5MB, 1:30 min.)

Baltimore (clip, 2003, 6.7MB, 2:15 min.)

War Photographer (2005, 27.5 MB, 4:12 min.)

Animated music video with rock n roll Viking battles.
Directed by Joel Trussell for musician Jason Forrest.

‘Train’ by Yang Zhi Fei (2005, 1.8MB, 1:02 min)

‘here and there everywhere’ by Wang Weijie
(2005, 0.7MB, 1:00 min)

‘camera 0’ by Ying Jian (2005, 1.8MB 1:00 min)

‘city space’ by Wei Na (2005, 1.8MB 1:01 min)

Four recent Chinese shorts featured on the
(rather confusingly organised) theoneminutes.org site.
(Which site also boasts the rather alarming archive
category: science and miracles).
The site’s quality control is a bit variable,
however these four are great – despite image
quality not being brilliant, their sparkiness &
originality sing through.

Ecstasy (2005, 18MB, 7:53 min)

by Martina Dempsey from Basement screen.

American Football (2003, 10.1MB, 4:30 min.)

British chameleon Baron Cohen is portraying a spoof Kazakh
(Kazakhstan) television presenter Borat in his Da Ali G Show.

shootin for love (2005, 30.1MB, 4 min.)

From the Moving Image Arts Department at the College of Santa Fe.
Written and directed by Matthew Daniel Page.

The Infectious Nature of Holiday Cheer (2004, 10.9MB, 3:31 min.)

Written & Directed by – Bill Hallinan. With Tim Whidden.