Magma by Rocketboom (2009, 53 MB, 6:22 min.)
The excellent new Magma.
Entry point and guide for online video.
Annette Hollywood – Stuttgarter Filmwinter Trailer
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Trailer (2009, 6 MB, 58 secs)
Adding with distinction one feels to the, perhaps hitherto
somewhat sparsely populated, genre of German-Art-Country & Western
is this quite splendid trailer from Annette Hollywood for the annual
Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival.
The subtitles are in Schwabian, the local dialect, and we
reproduce both Engilsh and Schwabian lyrics below.
Photography is by Anna Go, all else by Ms Hollywood.
Fab.
for a shooting cowboygirl like me
in the cold desert of artscenery
filmwinter is like a warm campfire
and makes filmworld much higher
they bombard you with prices of honour
like this arty wolperdonger
Michael Bell-Smith, Self Portrait, NYC
Self Portrait, NYC (2006, 19 MB, 2 min.)
HD Digital Video Loop w/ Sound by Michael Bell-Smith.
Aaron Cavanagh – 3D
I taught Aaron Cavanagh last year at Teesside University.
I don’t know whether he’s still making video but anyone
who can make stuff as viscerally exhilarating
as this certainly should be.
Couple more from Teesside next week.
Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Ed Day – Hats
Hats (2009, 123 MB, 10:54 min)
A first film from young UK actor Ed Day this made me laugh quite inordinately.
It was “was filmed over a few weeks in Jersey and Guernsey with the cast from
Oddsocks Theatre Company’s 2009 summer tour of Richard III”.
Apart from the humour what strikes home is the sheer technical ability,
wit and
Song of the Sandias Mtns by Derek Larson
Song of the Sandias Mtns (2009, 50MB, 58 sec.)
“Shot in the Sandias Mountains of New Mexico, this was
inspired by the myth of the West, the loss of an era of
decadent travel, joblessness and death.”
By Derek Larson.
Brantley Jones – Dead Plants
Dead Plants (2009, 36 MB, 1:24 min)
Another from the seemingly inexhaustible (but always pleasantly individual)
film seam at the School of Athens.
This is a lovely understated little study of ..er..dead plants, which fuses quirk,
a certain menace and a strange found beauty into something very satisfying.
Brantley Jones seems to live a double life – his website contains much more
“well made” stuff.
It will be interesting to see where he heads, eventually.
PS Also, how can you not warm to someone who lists the late great
David Foster Wallace as inspiration?
Mark Napier at [DAM]Berlin Gallery
Venus 2.0 (2009, 8 MB, 30 sec.)
[DAM]Berlin Gallery will exhibit new software works by artist
Mark Napier from 5th of December 2009 to 27th of January 2010.
Plastilina Mosh: OXIDADOS
OXIDADOS (2003, 13MB, 3:09 min)
Plastilina Mosh, one of the original, eclectic rock en Espanol groups.
Here is a new, old school video like the 80.
By Mica Scalin.