Estate Life

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Estate Life (2007, 48.4MB, 5:16 min.)

Made earlier this year as part of Epping Forest Arts’ Homelife project,
this video features parkour work by a group of young people
from the Limes Farm Estate in Chigwell, UK.
In particular check out the sudden backflip off the garden
wall about half way through – scary!
Shot using conventional DV camera, stills camera, a cheap mpeg4 machine &
an inverted sugar bowl.
Video made by Michael Szpakowski with additional camera work
by Vicky Tebbs & Charlotte Harris.

Smolarski/Langager – <em>Robert Roth's 'Health Proxy'</em>

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Readings from ‘Health Proxy’ (2007, 32.7MB, 8:19 min.)

So..declaration of interest..Robert Roth is a friend of mine & I get mentioned in the book.
Nonetheless, if he was my worst enemy, I’d still say watch this, then .
Health Proxy is pretty much sui generis..the only comparisons I can think of being those fragmentary, diaristic things in the Japanese tradition:The Pillow Book or Essays in Idleness.
Of course Kenko & Sei Shonagon never wrote about baseball or AIDS,
nor were they animated by the massively warm oppositional & radical spirit we find here.
The video is a nice job too – not only is it elegantly made, but Langager and Smolarski
pass the documentary acid test of honouring their subject matter whilst still creating
something with a palpable sense of their authorship.

László Moholy-Nagy

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Lichtspiel Schwarz, Weiss, Grau (clip) (1932, 12MB, 1:39 min.)

“Lichtspiel Schwarz, Weiss, Grau”, a doc concerning Moholy-Nagy’s kinetic sculpture,
the Light Space-Modulator. Moholy-Nagy believed the motion picture played a significant
role as both art & investigative tool.
‘Painting, photography, and film are parts of one problem although their techniques
may be entirely different. They belong to the same realm; that is, to visual expression,
where cross-fertilizations are possible.’
László Moholy-Nagy

Lyapis Trubetskoy – ‘Capital’

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Capital (2007, 55MB, 3:18 min.)

A wonderful surrealistic piece of pop-art with a cynical view of world politics.
Vote for this video clip for MTV Russia !
From cosmosfilm.tv

Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art

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Edward Hopper at NGA (2007, 37MB, 3:36 min.)

In conjunction with the exhibition Edward Hopper, the National Gallery of Art
has released a new video podcast about the artist and his work and influence.
Narrated by actor and art collector Steve Martin.

Saturday Night Live with Al Gore

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Saturday Night with Al Gore (2002, 7MB, 4:02 min.)

President Al Gore delivers a special message from the Oval Office
in the opening skit on Saturday Night Live.
from del.icio.us

pouringdown – fever dream

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pouringdown – fever dream (2007, 24.5MB, 3:42 min.)

Always truth in art from pouringdown.
If only we had more folks like this in the world.

The Movie Movie – Errol Morris

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The Movie Movie (2002, 17MB, 4:16 min.)

A four-minute film produced by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris featuring
quick-cut interviews with celebrities and regular folks alike was screened
during the opening segment of the Academy Awards in 2002. The film, which
was introduced by Tom Cruise, featured such luminaries as First Lady Laura Bush,
former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, writer Susan Sontag, Phillip Glass,
Iggy Pop of the Stooges, Lou Reed, Donald Trump, Walter Cronkite and the Rev.
Al Sharpton. Morris interviewed close to 120 subjects in New York, Los Angeles and Boston.

The Organ – Let The Bells Ring

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The Organ - Let The Bells Ring
Let The Bells Ring (2006, 12.2MB, 3:13 min)

by The Organ. From Valerie Toumayan.

The Mystery of Time – Too Fast from Shoes

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The Mystery of Time (2005, 35 MB, 4:20 min.)

‘Roll up roll up- its the streaming video for too fast.
Its tasty nice hip hop fun. With some beats in it too. Super!’
Too Fast AV mash up from Shoes. from blip.tv.