Monthly Archives: August 2007

Curt Cloninger – cannonball

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cannonball
cannonball (1996, 32.6MB, 3:35 min.)

Hi all,
This was recorded at the Blockbuster Video grand opening in Daphne,
Alabama, US, on December 6, 1996. They had a video karaoke machine
with a bluescreen, and you could choose your song and they would tape
you and give you a copy of the videotape. I think I might have also
had the option to select “Sci-fi” background or something like that.
The whole process took about five minutes and this was the result.

Some close friends refer to this as the highlight of my artistic
career, and sometimes I am inclined to agree with them.
Enjoy,
Curt.

Dopeness by Ted Passon

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dopeness
dopeness (2007, 24MB, 2:18 min.)

Plastic Little MC Nobody’s Child (aka Kurt Hunte) is a
pop-locking doctor who makes his rounds with dancing
nurses and patients. Music video by Ted Passon.

More Scritti Politti

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Boom There She Was
Boom There She Was (1988, 19.6MB, 4:12 min)

Hypnotize
Hypnotize (1985, 7.91MB, 3:26 min)

More stuff, both wonderful & ineffably strange, from the great Scritti Politti.
I defy you not to be utterly exhilirated ( at the same time as hating yourself a little bit)
by premise & execution both of BTSW…and…
what is going on with the see-saw stuff at the end of the
Hypnotize vid!?
Video makers of the world, the race is on to rehabilitate & assimilate this move
into our vocabulary..

Joseph Chomiak – down and out

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downandout
down and out (2006, 15.3MB, 2:35 min.)

A silent comedy from undergroundfilm.
by Joseph Chomiak.

Guthrie Lonergan

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Guthrie Lonergan1
#3 (2006, 0.3MB, 4 sec)

Guthrie Lonergan2
#5 (2006, 0.3MB, 7 sec)

Guthrie Lonergan3
#6 (2006, 1.9MB, 4 sec)

Says Tom Moody: Recommended: Guthrie Lonergan’s 9 Short Music Videos.
Reminiscent of BEIGE’s cheesy blue (green?) screen vids,
each is built around some corporate sound
(ringtone, Microsoft boot-up noise, DVD intro)
that craps up our daily lives. Also good:

Guthrie Lonergan4
Bricks (2006, 5.9MB, 1:12 min)

Holographic Wainscoting – Drift

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phoneface
Drift (2007, 199MB, 10:20 min)

Last in our series of pieces from Carl Burton.
Don’t be put off by the file size of this piece -it’s
definitely worth the wait.
Magnificent!

Wind Along the Coast – Ivan Maximov

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Wind Along the Coast
Wind Along the Coast (2003, 47.8 MB, 6:50 min.)

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast
suffering from the high winds.
The project was made possible by funding from the Russian ministry of culture
and the ‘Gubernia’ foundation of social culture programs.
Music: D. Kramer – A. Kuznetsov (after ‘Sea Journey’ by Chick Corea)
(thanks Genia).

atmo – The Voice

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the_voice
The Voice (clip) (2004, 7.9 MB, 1:36 min.)

atmo was founded in 2000 by a handful of friends who shared years
of free-lance filmmaking and reporting from places like Bosnia, Beirut and South Africa.
Johan Söderberg has lip-synced some of the most hated and loved people in history.

A Fluxus Re-enactment: A Walk Into the Sea

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A Walk Into the Sea
A Walk Into the Sea (2006, 21.3MB, 3:55 min.)

Re-enactment by Zach Layton of Ben Vautier’s 1963
performance a walk into the sea.
Great!

Beating Google

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beating
beating (2006, 4.8MB, 46 sec)

Rudy Adler piece on the excellent gaaagle.com,
protesting Google’s spineless policy of assisting
Chinese government censorship.
Check out this site, there’s some great stuff there.
Even better, make a short & relevant movie & send it in.
Now.

Holographic Wainscoting again

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phoneface
phoneface (2006, 14.9MB, 28 sec)


Red ball
Red ball (2006, 2.27MB, 38 sec )

More holographicwainscoting.

Donna Kuhn – I don’t fix a word

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I don
I don’t fix a word (2006, 4.5 MB, 2:16 min)

Mini Me
Mini-Me (2005, 12.1MB, 2:25 min)

These two videos by Donna Kuhn were made in circumstances of terrible
personal loss: the death of her son & then later that of a close friend.
Astonishing then, their delicacy & richness & the sheer dexterity of
handling & making, particularly in I don’t fix a word which
is a jewel, a small masterpiece.

This Spartan Life

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This Spartan Life 1
Dance (2006, 9.8MB, 2:24 min.)

This spartan Life 2
Travelogue (2006, 14.6MB, 1:21 min.)

This Spartan Life is a talk show set in the multi-user
combat game Halo 2 featuring actual interviews with
guests in the live game online.
These two ‘music videos’ are made using material from the game.

Vertical Features Remix – Curt Cloninger

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Vertical Features Remix
Vertical Features Remix (2006, 5.35MB, 1:01 min)

Faux collaboration with Tulse Luper whereby I remix his notes for
Vertical Features according to the notes themselves.

sources:
watercolors by Peter Greenaway.
audio by My Bloody Valentine.

peace
from curt.

Tyler Coburn – Fashion Victim no. 92

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Fashion Victim no. 92 (2005, 19.8 MB, 6:10 min.)

Commissioned by Amy Prior and extracted from her short story
of the same title. From Tyler Coburn.

By Mica Scalin.

Tevye – glimpse of a lost world

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Tevye
Tevye – clip (1939, 32.1MB, 1:27 min)

Prior to WW2 there were between 10 & 13 million speakers
of Yiddish. Today there are probably less than 2 million.
Here is an image of a lost world, the flowering of Yiddish culture
in the years of the twentieth century before the Holocaust.
This is a clip from the 1939 film Tevye by Maurice Schwartz based on
the work of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem
The film has recently been restored and is available for .

Jamie Allen – Killing Lena

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Killing Lena
Killing Lena (2007, 37.42MB, 2:13 min.)

Jamie Allen sent us a link to this Processing-utilizing piece
of work by him after having seen the post we did on Processing recently.
He explains it very clearly & cogently on his site so I’m just going to lift his text:

The “first lady of the internet,” was Playboy’s Miss November 1972.
Her turn-offs include “Men who wear shorts with white socks and black shoes.”
Lena’s issue was the most widely circulated issue of Playboy ever, selling 7,161,561 copies.

A single scanned image of Lena’s Playboy appearance subsequently took up favor
amongst digital imaging researchers. It has been used as a comparative standard
in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of image compression tests, publications and shoot-outs.

“Killing Lena” is a rendered video series in which Lena’s most famous photo is repeatedly
exposed to the compression algorithms she unwittingly helped to develop.
The videos presented are compression pornography, the suggestion of a
“compressivist art”, and a poetic digital demise.

Not much to add, dear viewer, except to observe the close kinship with
Alvin Lucier’s tremendous sound piece “I am Sitting in A Room”

3 with Heart from Brittany Shoot

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Heart::Casing
Heart::Casing (2007, 3.29MB, 26 secs)


Heart::Arteries
Heart::Arteries (2007, 11.9MB, 1:33 min.)


Heart::Break
Heart::Break (2007, 5.35MB, 35 secs)

So first to the Elephant In The Room. There’s just no tiptoeing
round the fact that Brittany Shoot is just a top name
for a videoblogger. OK – we’re all feeling better now. To the work.
Take a look: kind of understated, yet smart;
concise, neat, but poetry to it too.
Sometimes the very-short-video form leaves you
feeling slightly underwhelmed, cheated almost.
This is the opposite, a slowburn in the mind.
More before long.

Lucidhouse

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Lucidhouse1
vimeo.25822 (2003, 18.7MB, 6:47 min.)

Lucidhouse2
vimeo.56218 (2005, 18.5MB, 10:58 min.)

Couple of VJ mixes from Lucidhouse.

La Langue/The Tongue

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La Langue/The Tongue
La Langue (2007, 20.2MB, 2:06 min.)

Warning: this piece is genuinely somewhat disturbing…

Beautifully made & also deeply chilling work from French vlogger
jolipunk. Astonishing.

LA LANGUE est une tentative video sur notre rapport à la liberté d’expression.
Une succession de lents dézooms nous aspire dans une fatalité qui nous échappe
inexorablement.
Un songe qui nous confronte à notre rapport au language où la vision sanglante
de la perte de l’outil de communication est volontairement hypnotique et ésthétisée.
Le spectateur : il detourne le regard ou il contemple avec perversité et impuissance….

THE TONGUE is an attempt at a video about our relation to freedom of expression.
A succession of slow zooms-out draws us in to a destiny which eludes us inexorably.
A dream which confronts us with our connection to language and where the bloody
vision of the loss of our instrument of communication is deliberately hypnotic and aestheticised.
As for the spectator, either they avert their gaze or they stare, impotently and perversely…

Music : M83, Moon Child

Zur Farbenlehre/Theory of Colours

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Theory of Colours

Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours) (2007, 23.6MB, 7:25 min.)

Luscious & painterly mobile phone derived piece from
Steve Jones’s Azimuth Films
Music: ‘Vladivostok’ by Sonmi451

Holographic Wainscoting

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The Butter Skin Outtakes
The Butter Skin Outtakes (2006, 12MB, 1:16 min.)


Haloweb
Haloweb (2006, 14.2MB, 2:04 min.)

Work from Carl Burton, trading as holographicwainscoting.
I love this stuff. It’s strange but not simply strange, you know,
not just something you grin or raise an eyebrow at and then move on.
There’s substance & there’s an austere lyricism (if that ‘s not too much of an oxymoron)
to the substance too.
We’re going to do three posts on this work & you’ll see an interesting evolution
from the first two to the final one.

Fuyija & Miyagi – Michel Gondry-esque

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FuyijaMiyagi (2007, 24MB, 3:17 min.)

Stop motion, dominos, great music video for
Fujiya & Miyagi by Michel Gondry-esque.