subterranean homesick blues (1967-2005, 7.5MB, 1:37 min.)
Clip from –
42 New Briggate – a film & a call for work
Untitled 1, 2 and 3 (Bullet Series) (2007, 4 MB, 40 secs)
Rather splendid film by Steven Allbutt shown as part of a film showcase
in 2007 at the 42 New Briggate Gallery in Leeds, UK.
Apart from the piece’s intrinsic merits I had said to curator Yvonne Carmichael
we’d post her call for short films to be projected in the gallery window
Dec 2009 -Feb 2010 if she sent me a nice QuickTime we could also post here.
She did & so here it is – please consider submitting something!
Logarilla >> Masks by Derek Larson
Data Moshing with Eddie Whelan
caralion (2009, 10 MB, 1:03 min)
METALBEAR (2009, 11 MB, 44 secs)
atlas bear (2009, 9 MB, 54 secs)
There’s a wonderful strangeness and abandon to Eddie Whelan’s work.
Here he indulges in some rather winning datamoshing.
It all looks garishly gorgeous but the icing for me is his choice
and use of music/sound, which resonates very effectively with the visuals.
The lion piece, in particular, seems to me to be deeply melancholy, lovely
and pretty funny, all at the same time.
Zimoun – 216 prepared dc-motors / filler wire 1.0mm
216 prepared dc-motors / filler wire 1.0mm (2009, 10 MB, 36 sec.)
by Swiss artist Zimoun.
Two from Rick Silva
Colorado (2008, 93 MB, 8:41 min)
Massif (2009, 142 MB, 110:13 min)
Continuing a line of thought, of work, which seemed to begin with
his 2007 piece A Rough Mix Rick Silva creates two new pieces
in the wholly original style he has forged over the past few years.
(Contemplate those last words – it’s a rare claim to be able to make)
The two big themes seem to be landscape/environment & various
remixing practices ( of which Silva, of course, under various pseudonyms,
is a we-are-not-worthy master).
Thre’s a lot of greatly well-intentioned and almost equally dull “environmental” art
around, it being so zeitgeisty and all, but if this is how is could be
I want more.
Big downloads but, even if you’re on a slowish connection, well worth the wait.
(The movies here are obviously compressed & reduced in size -I would love to see them
full on in a gallery context!)
15 Minutes – Marque Cornblatt
15 Minutes – clip (1997, 8.2 MB, 5:09 min.)
Early clip made for the web.
Over the course of several weeks, guerrilla-style film and video crews followed
artists 24 hours a day, and along with actual news coverage, tell the tale
of taking the media and the art world hostage in an effort to manufacture
’15 Minutes’ of fame.
From Marque Cornblatt.
Interior Footage with Canine
Interior Footage with Canine (2009, 13 MB, 57 secs)
Exquisite Lumière from the ever reliable, ever astonishing, Sam Renseiw
at spacetwo : patalab.
BYE-BYE BLUE SKY – disney NASA borg
BYE-BYE BLUE SKY (2009, 17 MB, 2:40 min)
“09.11.01__”Good Bye Blue Sky” remix of the 1982 film by Pink Floyd,
in response to the 9.11 terrorist attacks, footage remixed includes video
filmed from my Brooklyn rooftop on 9.11.01…raw and heavy handed,
but is indicative of the outpouring of emotional art made in response
to the attacks by multitudes of artists.”
By [dNASAb].
Mobile Research Station no.1
10366629 (2009, 7 MB, 1:26 min)
Here’s the blurb:
In a wilderness at the heart of Berlin a strange apparition has landed. Simon Faithfull