Simulacra (2004, 24MB, 7:06 min.)
‘Shot from within a gaming environment, Joseph Farbrook takes a critical look at games that we continuously play. Just as virtual-reality is a consensual hallucination, structures such as money, power, and ownership are also consensual dreams.’
from 312.ca
Aegis Breakmix (2007, 75MB, 4:33 min.)
Stunning tour de force of editing by telemakfilms.
Fascinating how disparate footage can be rendered
coherent & lent such enormous forward momentum…
Basic sound techniques involve pruning (2007, 3.53MB, 52 sec)
On interference fringe patterns (2007, 11.5MB, 1:38 min.)
From the excellent Spacetwo:Patalab of Sam Renseiw.
Smart, wry poetry.
OK Go in Lego (2007, 53.3MB, 3:11 min.)
Rather wonderful re-construction in LEGO by Amy Fowler
of the OK Go video for A Million Ways .
Kind of rendering the minimal..er..minimaler.
By Mica Scalin.
Bodyparts (2006, 5.6MB, 1:00 min)
Visualcut#1 (2006, 6.8MB, 1:15 min)
There seems to be a very lively experimental online video scene
in France. There’s lots of widely varying work but much of it seems to
be characterised by an enormous ‘confidence in the image’
& a concomitant richly visual & unbuttoned approach to dealing
with said image, free of conceptualist trammeling.
Anthony Rousseau’s work exemplifies these ( in my book at least) virtues.
Infinite Smile (2005, 10.1MB, 2:43 min. loop)
Self-portrait of MTAA smiling and blinking.
(M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc.)
VlogHistory1 (2007, 15.5MB, 4:07 min.)
from the excellent Richard Show.
Exciting Prizes (2006, 36.8MB, 4:38 min)
The challenges continue, as special guest challenger, Dr. Donut,
takes the stage.
Now our contestants must satisfy Dr. Donut’s insatiable donut
lust by jumping into the air to eat donuts from a clothes line!
With your hosts: the Great Fredini and Julie Atlas Muz.
Performed before a hungry theater audience at the Belt theater,
NYC, January 21, 2005.
From – this or that.
Living Proof (2006, 10.9MB, 3:12 min.)
Further bizarreries from Harmony Korine, he of Kids, Gummo
& Julian Donkey Boy fame.
First up, a vid for Cat Power’s Living Proof from her current album ‘The Greatest’.
Then one for the great Sonic Youth.
He has good taste in music, it cannot be gainsaid.
Ooh!… & look who’s home but not quite alone…
waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.)
move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.)
stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.)
Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’
by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir.
This is very smart work indeed – it references, or better evokes, ideas & precedents
& techniques from all over world culture high & low & I’m sure this is conscious.
The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5’s short history of virtual hiking,
featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all & the dry
keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional
romanticism about nature & the landscape to sneak back in.
Not a criticism. Me, I love it.
The Postman walks with a spring in his step –They’re back!–
The little girl with freckles & pigtails tumbles joyfully headlong
down the street –They’re back!–
Even Fr. Pinault seems to twinkle ever so slightly..
Now, old Cottard stumbles cantankerously into the boulangerie.
-I don’t understand why everyone’s so damned cheerful today-
-Why, M’sieu, haven’t you heard? They’re back!
The FluxFilms are back on UbuWeb! –
George Maciunas: ‘Ten Feet’
George Landow/Owen Land: ‘The Evil Faerie’ (although
Landow/Land denies authorship – it has been suggested
this piece was actually made by John Cavanaugh)
Paul Sharits: ‘Sears Catalogue 1-3′
timetwister (2005, 6.6MB, 1:57 min.)
skaterpede (2005, 15.2MB, 4:23 min.)
This guy, Don Whitaker, is simply the poet of the skate park.
He is just a natural & wonderful movie maker: even if you have
no interest whatsoever in the subject matter I defy you not
to be won-over, to be enchanted, by this work
Curators/gallerists out there -what a show these
vids would make!
Lesbians (2006, 5.7MB, 2:34 min)
Interesting work from young artist Sarah Garmisa.
I’m personally not entirely convinced by Pan although it clearly
cost serious thought & effort & doesn’t lack technical merit.
Lesbians though, is an unqualified success:
witty, precise & executed with no little panache.
I look forward to seeing more.
Introduction to First Aid (2005, 24MB, 13 min.)
If you have ever had to train for Red Cross certification,
you will know why this is funny and not just awful.
When I came upon this, I thought to myself,
‘Wow, I am actually, deeply creeped out by this!’ then I thought,
‘This is the kind of sick stuff the internet is all about
and yet is so rare these days!’
So, it is with great pleasure that I can share with you
thirteen disturbing minutes of First Aid presented by LA based
educational cult/performance art group Art of Bleeding Foundation.
By Mica Scalin.
boardwalk (2007, 32MB, 2:15 min.)
A graceful video by photographer Kevin German.
Wonder Women (2002, 3.6MB, 1:30 min.)
This wonderful clip of a live performance by The Glamazons,
a New York based dance group created by video artist and
burlesque performer Alison Ward, will make your day.
By Mica Scalin.
Diffraction (2006, 22.3 MB, 5:23 min.)
Scratching & video: two good things in one package.
DJ GKUT & Brendan Dawes of Manchester, UK, based
outfit magneticNorth run mN’s video-control-by-vinyl tools
through their paces at FACT in Liverpool.
More than neat.
smoke (excerpt) (2007, 7MB, 56 sec.)
‘A symbol of the human desire to monumentalize ideas in physical form,
the Empire State Building is a subject of Mark Napier‘s artwork in the past four years.
This icon of American hegemony is key to exploring shifting structures of power,
specifically the transition from steel to software as the medium of power in our time.’
In Smoke, a generative software installation projected on the bitforms gallery wall.
Images from the show –here.
After You (2003, 12.2MB, 2:24 min.)
Christopher Cordingley is a character animator at Disney Feature Animation.
‘I liked the idea of conveying emotions through subtleties in posture
and facial expressions. In the end, After You is mainly about the virtue
of patience and thoughtfulness, and the futility of acting out of frustration and anger.’
rb_05_dec_02 (2005, 31MB, 4:45 min)
We at DVblog like Firefox of course !!
Classic piece of videoblogging from Rocketboom. (2005)
the karate date (2007, 19.2MB, 3:50 min.)
It’s Jerry Time!, winner of the 34th Annual Emmy Awards for ‘Outstanding Broadband Program’.
A collaboration between writer and composer – Jerry Zucker and animator, director Orrin Zucker.
