breathing (2006, 2.67MB, 1:12 min)
‘Messa di Voce’ by Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman
Messa di Voce (2003, 12.3MB, 2:40 min)
Messa di Voce (Ital., “placing the voice”) is an audiovisual performance
in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two abstract vocalists are
radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software.
by Golan Levin & Zach Lieberman.
Puffing Away – Isaac King – Wagon Christ
Puffing Away (2006, 46.2MB, 2:55 min)
Director: Isaac King. Music: Wagon Christ.
Apple Think Different – 1998
Think Different (1998, 10MB, 1 min)
The famous Think Different commercial, featuring Einstein, Ghandi,
Amelia Earhart, etc. Probably one of the most influential commercials of 1998.
Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack
Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack (1950, 44.2MB, 17.41 min)
A real winner from the Prelinger Archives, this film is
seventeen funny and frightening minutes of useless
disinformation from the American government.
Nathaniel Stern – Compressionism
Compressionism (2006, 17.2MB, 5:37 min)
About time we had a new ism 🙂
DVblog regulars will have seen Nathaniel Stern’s video work here before
in particular the Odys series, characterised both by a luminous intelligence
& a willingness to take artistic risks.
In this short documentary about this (genuinely interesting & fruitful) ism of his own devising Stern
avoids lots of pitfalls: it’s clear, it’s thoughtful & smart, never smug & it makes
one want to see more of the work.
Ken Turner #4 – dance
Ken Turner #3 – questioning
Variations V – John Cage
Variations V (1965, 7.5MB, 2:22 min)
‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement:
directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as
they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae.
When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result.
Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine
the final sounds.’ – from mediaartnet.
Gokhan Okur – Last Train Ride
Last Train Ride (2006, 10.7MB, 4:01 min)
Skilful & eye catching animation from Turkish artist Gokhan Okur.