What makes for a grievable life? – Ashley Watson (2009, 19.2MB, 5:39)
From Ashley Watson, a truly poignant piece about
how we choose to value certain lives and not others.
H/t to my friend Deb
Paul Rodriguez – Flowers
Flowers (2010, 52 MB, 3:16 min)
I really hated this piece, a music video for Former Ghosts,
the first time I saw it, although I’d previously enjoyed work
by Paul Rodriguez and posted some here.
My first impressions were confirmed by a trawl through
the publicity material surrounding it:
“A naked dude gets peed on in this disturbing clip from the electro-goth
project led by Freddy Ruppert. Director: Paul Rodriguez….”
which seemed a tad..er..calculating
I was so bemused by how much I took against the piece
that I watched it several times over to try and analyse my reactions
and the more I looked at it the more the sheer deftness,
care and feel for the medium with which it is made began to
prevail over my dislike of the content.
Rodriguez confirms himself a filmmaker of real talent, with a great eye
and superb attention to detail.
I’m not sure someone possessed of his gifts needs to work so hard to
make us look his way but I remain very interested to see where he goes next.
Michael Bell-Smith – “Walk Again” music video
More Steven Ball
ex Local Authority (2005, 156 MB, 6:59 min)
Over the Borough Island (2009, 63 MB, 1:51 min)
Two longer pieces from Steven Ball some of whose
Direct Language pieces we posted here last week.
Both pieces are great but I have particular soft spot for
ex Local Authority which, although I’m sure it
has all sorts of potent intellectual justifications for being is also,
quite simply, austerely & melancholically gorgeous.
Julien Maire – Digit
A live performance by Julien Maire.
Ask Vatne Brean –Two Short Movies
Small creatures everywhere looking for adventures (2009, 14 MB, 2:24 min)
But not short titles eh Ask?
Work of skill, verve, charm & oddness from Ask Vatne Brean
about whom I know nothing , except I think he is Norwegian.
Update: He is Norwegian & is an 18 year old
music student.
Impressive & somewhat scary – I look forward to seeing how his
work develops.
Infosphere Aesthetics – disney NASA borg
Infosphere Aesthetics (2008, 13 MB, 3:12 min.)
Video documentation of “Infosphere Aesthetics” a solo show by
[dNASAb] at Cress Galleries, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
core duo riddim – abe linkoln
core duo riddim (2006, 23.8MB, 3 min)
Music video from awhile back by abe linkoln for ‘core duo’
an experimental-y, electronica-y, dance-y kind of outfit.
Good stuff !
Tarlabasi Crawl – Jeremiah Day
Tarlabasi Crawl (2009, 18 MB, 8:23 min.)
Jeremiah Day is interested in resistance movements, as well as the flux of
knowledge, stories and identity through the migration of people and histories.
Steven Ball – Direct Language
Direct Language 2.4 (2006, 6.5 MB, 2:55 min)
Direct Language 4.5 (2007, 7.5 MB, 1:20 min)
Direct Language 3.0 (2006, 1.5 MB, 52 sec, silent)
Strange fragments of worked over reality which
lodge in the unconscious like splinters.
From Steven Ball’s excellent Direct Language
project – well worth spending some time there.
More recent work from him soon.