Snow Factory (2006, 6.41MB, 53 secs)
Lyrical whimsy, which sounds lightweight, but isn’t.
It’s beautifully made by Steven Ball and has a strange
gravity not unreminiscent of the less dread-saturated
(I hesitate to say “more playful”) end of Kafka…or
Ben Marcus, perhaps…
Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002, 15.3MB, 3:14 min)
Alex Budovsky aka Aleksey Budovskiy created this great animation
based on Stephen Coates ( aka (The Real) Tuesday Weld‘s) song of the same title.
This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos,
who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move
inside the cuckoo clocks.
Su Friedrich – The Ties That Bind (1984, 14.2MB, 4:03)
From the classic avant-garde filmmaker; a found-footage,
personal and historical documentary reflection on wartime
and Friedrich’s mother’s coming of age in Nazi Germany,
presented here during yet another period of unrest
in our uncertain world.
Stunning CGI from royalelastics.com.
Red Attack (2001, 7MB, 1:38 min.)
Joseph Nechvatal‘s 2001 Computer Virus Project 2.0 follows along the same lines as previous viral works by Nechvatal in 1992 – works where an unpredictable progressive virus operates on a degradation/transformation of an image. Using a C++ framework, Joseph Nechvatal and his programmer/collaborator Stephane Sikora have brought Nechvatal’s early computer virus project into the realm of artificial life (A-Life) (i.e. into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems). With Computer Virus Project 2.0, elements of artificial life have been introduced in that viruses are modeled to be autonomous agents living in/off the image. The project simulates a population of active viruses functioning as an analogy of a viral biological system.
O:.O:.O:.(2007, 47.3MB, 59 sec loop)
Quite extraordinary dance video from Jaygo Bloom.
What I love about it is the wonderfully insouciant way
it both references and evokes early modernism
(Calder is cited as a source/inspiration by Bloom) but is also
(and could not be other than) utterly contemporary.
Great! So great it makes me totally jealous!
Camera: Patrick Jamieson and Anna Druka
Music: Hammerschmidt
The Planets (2005, 1MB, 1:07 min.)
Toine Klaassen draws attention to the poetry of the unsightly, the small,
and neglected. He collects discarded objects from his surroundings
with no predetermined plan, and subsequently uses these in his work.
Often the work is created in the presence of the public
in a performance setting, in which he makes no attempt
to avoid the absurd.
Or as Klaassen himself states:
“If you catch a butterfly in your hands the powder on its
wings will brush off leaving just a tattered rag.”
Vertical Thoughts 4 (2002, 7.7MB, 3:22 min.)
All we composers really have to work with is time and sound
– and sometimes I’m not even sure about sound.
Morton Feldman.
The pianist is Philip Thomas.
Found in Misha David’s excellent collection of
new music performance videos.
While you’re there check out the rest of his site -he has some
great photographic work archived there too.
Parabolic (2007, 35.5MB, 4:50 min.)
This bit of intense gorgeousness was made from cell phone
video footage (funny how we still use that word, footage)
by Brian Gibson who sometimes posts here.
If it was simply lovely that would be enough, but it’s very
structured too – Brian has such a great feel for the intrinsic
qualities of the material but also a real editing eye…
Augmented Sculpture (2007, 11.5MB, 3:48 min.)
“This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time
not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation For this purpose
two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality.
The first stage of this project has been developed during Interactivos? 2007, at Medialab Madrid.”
Work by Pablo Valbuena.
