Mimi, Jack & Anna (2007, 14.6MB, 2:09 min.)
‘About half way through this, I realised I was unconsciously structuring it with the work
of Jacques Rivette in mind. So it’s a kind of tiny tribute to a master.
The music is my arrangement for Tuba Quartet of the Pixies’
Is She Weird? played by Tubalat on their Hall of Mirrors CD.
Thanks to them & thanks to Anna, Jack & Mimi.’
from Michael Szpakowski.
a beauty !
Can’t Tell Me Nothing (2007, 23.9MB, 5:00 min)
How good is this?
Alternative vid for Kanye West’s ‘Can’t Tell me Nothing’ with
comedian Zack Galifianakis & the wonderful Will Oldham. Exhilarating!
Found here.
Fay Grim trailer (2007, 10.7MB, 1:54 min)
In the case of Hal Hartley I feel so at odds with the world’s
apparent consensus that I fear for the balance of my mind.
Why is he not feted as one of the world’s smartest & most inventive directors?
Why did folk briefly seem to understand in the early nineties that something
special was going on, then bizarrely seem almost immediately to forget about it?
It beats me, it defeats me.
Here is the trailer for Fay Grim, touted by some as Hartley’s return to form
Me I think he never lost it.
Yes – it has moments that feel eggy, awkward and mystifying but
then so does La Divina Commedia.
Rather unusual, this: a clip from the BBC’s putative yoof
channel, BBC3, that is both funny & smart.
Antinormalizer (2007, 83.9MB, 9:58 min)
This has quite a complex history, which is explained
better in the video than I could do here.
My nose twitched when I saw it posted on the
Rhizome list by Brett Stalbaum.
Anything associated with him is worth checking out
as witness the various excellent things he’s made with
a hiking theme ( & hiking theme so fails to do justice to the peculiarity
& wonder of them).
Anyway this one is a big team thing, students and staff from
two courses at Unviersity of California San Diego &
it’s entertaining & thought provoking & it feels like
a 2007, modern tech twist on 1968’s
‘Sous les pavés, la plage!’.
Flightline ODC Slackers (2007, 23.5MB, 2:35 min)
An excellent piece from Shannon Noble.
Shannon is a maker of remarkably finely judged
videos which often amaze but never sit up and beg.
Here he tackles, with both grace & restraint, something
that I suppose could loosely be described as a genre
film: the sports documentary.
OK, the poetic sports documentary.
The Shins – Gone For Good/Turn On Me (2007, 50.5MB, 9:36)
The Liars – Freak Out (2007, 17.5MB, 2:59)
From Vincent Moon’s ongoing collection of Take Away Shows,
two examples of impromptu concerts in public spaces or back rooms,
both hipster American bands but unique and fantastic with their own
pop-folk and frenetic, avant garde styles.
Pere Marquette (2007, 10.4MB, 1:59 min)
Well I’m a fool for anything to do with trains, but this gem
from Jennifer Proctor is outstanding; both
heart-rendingly beautiful & a lesson in craft:
it’s what she does & it’s what she doesn’t.
Mark E Smith Reads the Football Results (2005, 12.7MB, 7:14 min.)
God-like genius & professional curmudgeon Mark E Smith
of The Fall reads the football (OK – soccer to
about two thirds of you) results on the BBC in 2005.
The full glory of this possibly only totally comprehensible to
Brits of a certain age but stay with it – the last third is
a hoot.
point of view (2006, 11.3MB, 2:06 min.)
A silent B/W short by Joseph Chomiak –
a terrifying story of a man that finds a viewfinder that can look
into another time and place. From undergroundfilm.
‘Perseverance (fragment)’ (2006, 35 MB, 3:05 min.)
The Rhizome mailing list became a more predictable & somehow
less exciting place when wit, polymath & provocateur Max Herman
hung up his mouse for a while. He’s back there now & he’s here too,
with some ice hockey action for your delectation, being a section
from a longer work entitled Perseverance.
Says Max, “If I can choose keywords, can they be ‘hockey, millennium,
glasperlenspiel, perseverance, history?’ ”
Of course they can, Max, of course.
(PS Watch the movie, it’s quite lovely)
October of This Year (2006, 25MB, 4 min.)
Music video – ‘October of This Year’,
from the Portland Oregon band Unrecognizable Now.
Directed by Rob Tyler. From undergroundfilm.
We brought you an extract of this piece by
William Kentridge a while back .
Now here’s the whole piece, courtesy of Lumen Eclipse.
Not only is it exquisitely made, you would have
to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it.
‘This is a cartoon representation of the process
used to link amino acids to make a protein.’
Flavoprotein (2006, 1.3MB, 4 sec loop)
‘This is a model of one of the proteins used
in the electron transport chain. Basically, where
we get most of our energy to survive as living organisms.’
Bilayer (2006, 3.3MB, 3 sec loop)
‘This is the general structure of our cell membranes.’
Beautiful animations -teaching materials- of chemical
processes & structures by Professor James K. Hardy
of the University of Akron. Thanks to Professor Hardy for
the accompanying explanations of what each animation
actually represents.
The whole series is a delight.
Intimate Controllers Game Console (2007, 3.5MB, 2:40)
An interpersonal videogame in progress from JennyLC Chowdhurdy,
a woman responsible for such projects as an emphysema-ridden
My Little Pony and a portable telephone booth so you can finally
have some privacy on your cellular in public.
Muttering Hat (2007, 7.5MB, 1:12)
Also, a Muttering Hat from Kate Hartman, who believes
plants should be able to call humans on the telephone
and makes gloves that dance.
I wish I got to spend all day making this kind of innovation.
fakeshop_art (2007, 42MB, 1:45 min.)
Installation/performance at 798 Art Festival, Beijing, China
by Jeff Gompertz aka ‘fakeshop’, aka ‘polystar’. May 12, 2007
Return to Auschwitz – clip (1982, 1.95MB, 18 secs)
A tiny fragment today, but oh what a fragment.
An extract from an Italian television documentary
about a visit to the site of the Auschwitz extermination camp,
where he had previously been incarcerated for a year,
by the great Italian writer Primo Levi, who died 20 years ago this last April.
Levi wrote the indispensable memoir of the Holocaust,
‘If This is a Man’ ( in the US called ‘Survival in Auschwitz’).
Apparently this documentary used to be available on the net in its entirety.
If anyone can point us to a copy we’ll post the whole thing.
This tiny clip is nonetheless a key one. NEVER AGAIN!
Eclectic (2007, 66MB, 2:26 min.)
“This film I created by myself. It is a series of time-lapse shots that I edited
together and put to music. Rather than using a regular video camera,
I opted to use a digital SLR camera because it allowed me to shoot in ultra
high definition as well as get the depth of field only available to film cameras”.
Time-lapse photography by Ross Ching.
Sorin (2007, 39.7MB, 4:21 min.)
Elijah (2007, 37.4MB, 4:07 min.)
One of the great pleasures of working with Doron on dvblog is the sneak
previews I get of his new work.
It never fails to astonish and move me.
Here are two recent pieces, both, loosely speaking, portraiture.
When I think or write about Doron’s work two words insist on themselves time and time again.
One is mysterious and the other is humane.
Watch these pieces and see why, then go and check out all of Doron’s work.
Antonio (2005, 43.2MB, 3:19 min)
His Dead (2005, 14.8MB, 2:14 min)
The Only Place (2006, 22.3MB, 3:12 min)
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