Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Bruce Naumann - Stamping in the Studio (excerpt)

Sunday, November 19, 2006

philip glass: glassworks
Tescosqatsi

Koyananisqatsi and philip glass Spoof
philip glass: metamorphosis 1

youtube - "piano by branka parlic
27th of october 2004, sinagogue, novi sad"

Media Art Net - Resource


Mediaartnet - Resource

"Introducing the range of topics related to media and art, «Media Art Net» thus aims at establishing an Internet structure that offers highly qualified content by granting free access at the same time. Tendencies of art and media technology development throughout the twentieth century serve as the background for promoting historic and contemporary perspectives on artistic work in and with the media. A combination of diverse representational modes will offer a condensed, attractively presented multimedia focus for the interested 'surfer,' as well as profusely documented in depth information for users specifically involved in research. The main objective is, therefore, to establish theoretically and audio-visually convincing forms of relationships and references that cross the boundaries of genre. A consistently bilingual version (German/English) further transmits the international character of this undertaking."

http://www.mediaartnet.org/mediaartnet/
Vorwerk Ballet

different choreography - www.slapdance.de/antonym
Ai Yamamoto

Youtube broadcast: "The abstract electronic melodies and digital animation of Japanese artist Ai Yamamoto.
Includes interview with subtitles."
After All (The Odessa Steps)

Pet Shop Boys Soundtrack

Antal Lux - Website


Antal Lux - Artist, Video, Painting. This puece is called Identity (Identit�t | 1991 )

Antal Lux - Identity (1991)


Antal Lux - Identitly (1991) - clip online at: mediartnet.org

Battleship Potemkin and Pet Shop Boys

Suggested by Conor Hinfey

Battleship Potemkin + Pet Shop Boys live in Dresden

Pet Shop Boys soundtrack to Odessa Steps Sequence

The Odessa Steps Sequence

Soundtrack by Petshop Boys to Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Excerpt from the Odessa Steps Sequence

Excerpt - Odessa Steps Sequence

Excerpt - The Odessa Steps Sequence

Sergei Eisenstein (1925) - The Odessa Steps Sequence

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Peter Greenway/David Lang - Writing on Water - 2005

Peter Greenway/David Lang - Writing on Water

Peter Greenway - film; David Lang - Composer - "Writing on water". "The Artwise Solution: Artwise commissioned filmmaker Peter Greenaway, composer David Lang and the London Sinfonietta orchestra to collaborate on a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary event inspired by the maritime theme. Greenaway arranged a libretto based on Moby Dick, The Tempest and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which was then orchestrated by Lang and performed by the world-class London Sinfonietta. Writing on Water also included live calligraphy by Brody Neuenschwander, who worked on Greenaway's The Pillow Book, and live VJ'ing of some 400 film images by the director himself. Writing on Water was first performed in Richard Roger's spectacular Lloyd's building, where the vast screens were suspended directly over the markets, and to great acclaim as a public event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank (2005). Artwise project-managed over 100 collaborators for this commission." http://www.artwisecurators.com/p6t.htm
Writing on Water performance

Music by David Lang
Dear Phone Part One

Peter Greenway
H is for House

Peter Greenway - H is for House
Gehr - Serene Velocity Part One

youtube broadcast
Stan Brakhage - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hollist Hampton - Nostalgia
Anthem

Bill Viola
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

Paul Sharits - Flicker Film -Touching
N:O:T:H:I:N:G

A clip from Paul Sharits' film, N:O:T:H:I:N:G
- Flicker film - Structural Film
Brakhage on Brakhage I
Brakhage on Brakhage II

youtube excerpt
Michael Snow - La Région Centrale - 1967

youtube excerpt
Michael Snow - wavelength (1967)

youtube broadcast

Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura - Photographer (US)


Abelardo Morell - Photographer (US) - Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The simple process -- he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them -- produces photographs of complex beauty. The world outside is projected upside down into the room which he then photographs using long exposures. (Abelardo Morell, Bulfinch Press)
http://memberpictures.aol.com/aolvisions/ipcamera and http://www.abelardomorell.net/about.html

Virgil Widrich - Fast Film - Google Video Broadcast 2003. "In 14 minutes, "Fast Film" provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera." More info: http://www.widrichfilm.com/ and http://www.widrichfilm.com/fastfilm/main_en.html

Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist (1970)

The Conformist (English Dub)

Excerpt from The Conformist - published at youtube

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

René Clair -Entr'acte (1924)

René Clair -Entr'acte (1924)

youtube broadcast- René Clair -Entr'acte (1924)

Sergei Eisenstein - Alexander Nevsky (1938)


Excerpt from Alexander Nevsky at google video. Music composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Eisenstein and Prokoviev worked very close on creating sound image relations in this work.

"Alexander Nevsky is a film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitry Vasiliev, produced by Mosfilm and released in 1938 with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role...

The film was the first of Eisenstein's to use sound. The film's score was composed by Sergei Prokofiev, who later reworked the score into a concert cantata."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_%28film%29
clip from October - Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein - October (1927)


Sergei Eisenstein - October (1927) - full film viewable on google video with sound. Originally a silent film, this version on google video has music scored by Dmitri Shostokovitch. Full title is October: Ten Days That Shook The World. However, more frequently referred to as October

Excerpt from October (1927) by Sergie Eisenstein

clip from October - Sergei Eisenstein

"clip from Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 masterpiece "October". ends with the famous scene of Lenin arriving at Finland Station, calling for all power to the Soviets. "

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Excerpt - The Odessa Steps Sequence

Excerpt - The Odessa Steps Sequence

The Odessa Steps Massacre In 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925)

The Station Steps - The Untouchables (1987)

The Untouchables. The Station Steps.

1987 - Director Brian de Palma. A take on the famous odessa steps sequence from Eisensteins Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin (1925)


Full film to view at google video.

"Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of films on the audience, and Eisenstein edited the film in a way that would produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the story was written in a very simplistic fashion, so that the audience could clearly see whom they could sympathize with."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin

Monday, November 13, 2006

Dziga Vertov - Man with the Movie Camera (1929)


Dziga Vertov - Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Download at archive.org

Dziga Vertov - Man with a Movie Camera

View online at youtube

Originally a silent movie, in this youtube broadcast with music.

Stanley Jubrick - 2001: Space Oddysey

2001 - Stanley Kubrick - Space Oddysey- HAL and David

Excerpt on youtube. This clip demonstrates the kuleshov effect.

Vito Acconci - Theme Song (1977)


Vito Acconci - Theme Song - 1977 - 33 minutes - streamed on ubuweb.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Article: Beyond Myth and Metaphor ...


Beyond Myth and Metaphor
-The Case of Narrative in Digital Media
by Marie-Laure Ryan

Stan Douglas: Win, Place or Snow


Stan Douglas - (Canada) - "Win, Place or Show". Information and video clip at from mediaartnet

Article: Rudolf Frieling "Context Video Art"


Article (with links to illustrations) Rudolf Frieling "Context Video Art" from mediaartnet

Lev Manovich - Soft Cinema Interview


Lev Manovich - Soft Cinema - Interview

Saturday, November 11, 2006

John Smith


John Smith - UK - Experimental Filmmaker

Screenonline - 1920s and 1930s Avant-Garde Film


Screenonline: 20s - 30s Avant-Garde Film

Rene Jodoin - Notes on a Triangle (1966)


Notes on a Triangle by Rene Jodoin 1966 - play online at ONF

Casablanca - Michael Curtiz


Casablanca - Release Date: November 26, 1942
Director: Michael Curtiz. Availalble to view either streaming or download

Friday, November 10, 2006

Tomek Baginski - The Cathedral - 2003

Submitted by Fran Hartnett

More information and video clip of film at:
http://www.platige.com/index.php?lng=en&tu=27

"Short, poetic film based on the Jacek Dukaj's novel, created by Tomek Baginski.
It was nominated for an Oscar® in 2003 in Short Animated Category.
The Cathedral is also a winner of Best Animated Short at the SIGGRAPH festival in 2002...Synopis:
Story of a pilgrim who come to the Cathedral
on the border of the known world.
He wants to find the answers. He finds calmness."

Friday, November 03, 2006

Chris Marker - La Jetee - 1962

photos-romans de Chris Marker La Jetee 1962

Sue Constablie - Still Not Still


Sue Constabile - Still Not Still "Using black and white photographs taken in Berlin, Still Not Still turns frozen moments in time into moving images.
"

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Claudia Rohrmoser - VI:KNRZ_TRU (2002)


CLAUDIA ROHRMOSER
ANIMATION UND VIDEO. VI:KNRZ_TRU - VIDEO/ANIMATION Claudia Rohrmoser, SOUND Arne Vierck, Arno Frisch (Arnö), 8:00 min DV PAL, Berlin 2002

Walter Ruttmann - Opus 1 - 1921


Walter Ruttmann
Light-Play Opus I - 1921 - Video Clip Available

Thomas Wilfred - Lumia - Untitled Opus 161, 1956/66


Thomas Wilfred - Lumia - Flash Reproduction of Light Animation. "Untitled", Opus 161, 1965/66.

"The animation, featured here, is a Flash based 'movie' made up of 30 still images taken from Wilfred's Opus 161., and produced for us by the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Special thanks to Michel Fernandez of the Centre Pompidou for producing this animation and for permission to use it here."

See http://www.lumia-wilfred.org/content/animation/op161.html for more information

Rear Projection Installation

Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window - Part 1 (Excerpt from Beginning of film) - James Stewart

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Annaud - Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates - Jean Jacques Annaud

2001 - trailer

Len Lye - Videos on Google Video


Len Lye - Videos on Google Video

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Camera Obscura - The Legacy Photo Project

Submitted by Daniel Martin Martin


The Legacy Photo Project - The World's Largest Camera & Photograph

Chris O'Shea - Sonicforms installation


sonicforms - an open source research platform for developing tangible interfaces for audio visual environments
by Chris O'Shea

George O. Stadnik - Lumia Artist


George O.Stadnik - Lumia Artist "The science and art of light are my sources of inspiration. Curiosity, discovery, imagination, creativity and discipline transform my dreams into reality
" - Creates optical lumia, Lumia Projectors and Digital Lumia

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Laserwhite Lumia

Laserwhite Lumia

From 5^Holomeeting in Italy 2004
by Elettro

Nancy Herman - Colors moving in time to music

What Might Have Been

Nancy Herman - "Colors moving in time to music"

Barry Hale - Haiku

Barry Hale: HAIKU

Barry Hale - Haiku - intraference videos - video feedback loops

Joel Cadman - Spinning Lights

Spinning Lights #128 Smoke

Spinning Lights #128 - Joel Cadman - Video Feedback

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Yugop

Submitted by Conor Hinfey




Yugop - A variety of interactive studies and works created by Yugo Nakamura for his MONO*crafts project.

Orwell - Music Video - Toutes les nouvelles parlent d'hier

Submitted by Julien Lonchamp


Music Video for band Orwell - "Toutes les nouvelles parlent d'hier". Select m for medias and scroll to select Toutes les nouvelles parlent d'hier. The band place themselves inside well known album covers.

Album Covers Galore - youtube broadcast

Submitted by Aejaz Zahid

Album Cover Galore!!

Metropolis - Fritz Lang - 1927

The Thief of Baghdad - 1940

The Thief of Baghdad - 1940 - UK

Thief of Bagdad (1940, UK)

"The Academy Award for Special Effects (photographic and sound) was awarded to this film. Associate producer William Cameron Menzies designed some of the rich special effects for this imaginative Arabian Nights fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda, a loose remake of the original Douglas Fairbanks silent classic of 1924; they included a flying magic carpet, a six-armed mechanical assassin, a toy horse that could fly, poor Bagdad thief Abu's (15 year-old Sabu) battle with a giant spider in its huge web, and the sight of 50 foot tall genie or Djinni (Rex Ingram) in a tiny bottle. Special "http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects2.html

Deadly Media - Hexstatic


Hexstatic - Deadly Media

Joan Jonas - Waltz

Image as metaphor


Joan Jonas - "Waltz" - Image as metaphor

Project Bifid - installation


Shimmer - architect Alisa Andrasek and artist Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand - installtion . Project Bifid "For Bifid (2005), Alisa Andrasek collaborated with materials specialist Mary Boone Wellington to produce a field of polycarbonate ribbon structures that emerge from the floor and ceiling. Infinitely variable by way of their algorithmic origin, the weaving patterns of this fabric reverberate throughout the gallery, oscillating in density and complexity.
". ,,, Project "Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand's sculpture Waken (2005) builds across a network of signals in an installation of tendon-like bio-dynamic materials and audio speakers. Using a generative code that emulates the movement of bees in nature, the artists create a "sonic prairie" characterized by diversity, accident, and spontaneous growth.
"

James Seo - Interior

Multiple Points of view


James Seo - US - He wants to explore how to use digital media and technologies to visually represent and synthesize multiple points of view and points in time.

Yoshiyuki Komatsu - Roundscape


Power Graphixx - Roundscape - Yoshiyuki Komatsu's Roundscape is a landscape movie made with a horizontal framework inspired by an ancient Japanese art form called "EMAKI." This work has been selected as the Adjudicator's Recommendation at the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Nell Breyer and Jonathan Bachrach - push and MIT - imove

Exploring the "bottlenecks of human motion"


Nell Breyer and Jonathan Bachrach - Push and MIT - i:movie. "I:move is a performance / installation series that explores how we perceive movement. It embeds daily activities into formal choreography and is being developed for public spaces that are bottlenecks of human motion"

Viking Eggeling - Syphonie Diagonale

Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling

Don't know who has scored the music for this version of the video - put the music to silent!

Hexstatic - Deadly Media


Hexstatic - Deadly Media

Sheri Wills - Integrated music and video - US


Sheri Wills - integrated music and video

Sheri Wills is an artist whose work is based in film, sound and digital media.
She curated a program of films called "Synesthesia: The Musical Form in Avant-Garde Film"

Metaman, for Violin with Digital Sound and Video (2009) Video by Sheri Wills Music by Charles Norman Mason from Karen Bentley Pollick on Vimeo.

Scott Draves - Kunstformen


Scott Draves - kunstformen - black and white dub. "The animation is made from a series of 100 lithographs entitiled "Kunstformen der Natur", German for "Artforms of Nature", created by Ernst Haeckel in 1899-1904. "

Scott Draves - Dub Visuals


Scott Draves - Dub Visuals

"The original images come from historic Islamic arabesques. They were carved in plaster and wood, painted, and mounted in actual buildings in Andalusia and Morocco. These ancient artworks were photographed, printed in a book, scanned into a computer, adjusted with Photoshop, and animated with After Effects. Each step in the journey has left its tell-tale mark, from the lighting of the original photograph to the mask of the printer to the blocky pixels of the digital zoom. "

Spot aka Scott Draves


Spot aka Scott Draves - Dreams in High Fidelity - A painting that evolves. Software artist residing in San Francisco US

Scott created Bomb: a visual musical instrument based on artificial life in 1996. Check it out at:
http://draves.org/bomb/

MOOVLAB - NON-NARRATIVE CONCEPTUAL ARTS CHANNEL


MOOVLAB Philadelphia - high-definition non-narrative conceptual arts channel devoted to showcasing 24-hours a day of creative video art and experimental films.

Gunvar Nelson - Film/ Video Artist - US - Sweeden


Gunvor Nelson - Film Video Artist

"Gunvor Nelson Retrospective: Personal Lens -October 20–23, 2006 [MoMA - New York]

This exhibition of work by film and video pioneer Gunvor Nelson spans four decades and offers a rare opportunity to experience the accumulated impact of Nelson's artistic vision. Her poetically expansive life's work-created in both San Francisco, her home and workplace for over thirty years, and her native Sweden, where she has resettled-has consistently, often courageously, privileged her subjective gaze and individual experience. Nelson relentlessly refuses predictability (and succeeds) in her search for a true relation between project and form. Among the most experimental of artists, Nelson illuminates such elusive and intimate subjects as childhood, aging, displacement, memory, women's roles, death, and the symbolic forces of nature and water via a potent exploration of the possibilities of sound and moving image. Her ephemeral, dreamlike images are simultaneously tactile and almost tangible, while her imaginative use of language and traces of music add considerably to the emotional impact of her works. Filmic collage and dynamic editing create tension and contrast. The unique characteristics of Nelson's works form less a definable style than a sustained aesthetic.
Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film."

Chris O'Shea - Sonicforms


Chris O'She Sonicforms

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann - Lichtspiel Opus I

Experimental animation directed by Walter Ruttmann, 1921. The Original Film was silent but the film was scored for music, with music composed by Max Butting

Hans Richter - Rhythm 21

Hans Richter - Rhythm 21

positive negative relations and contrasts

Viking Eggeling - Symphonie Diagonale

Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling

Perhaps turn the volume down...originally a silent film

Anna Geyer film - aradaptor


Demers/ Geyer - Commissioned by the Piano Optophonique Projectexcerpts from Anna Geyer's film
� ARADAPTOR (I Feel So) �

Walter Ruttmann - Opus 1 - 1921


Walter Ruttmann
Light-Play Opus I - 1921 - Video Clip Available

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Patrice Leconte - Le Batteur du bolero - 1992

google video broadcast



Music Ravel's Bolero

Ben Fry - Genome Valence

Ben Fry's Genome Valence @ FITC

youtube broadcast - quote from youtube "Upon audience request, Ben Fry describes his craaaaazy human genome valence project at FITC2006... built with Processing.
(http://acg.media.mit.edu/peop le/fry/genomevalence/) "

Michael Snow - Wavelength

wavelength (1967)

Michael Snow - Wavelength 1967 - 12 minute excerpt of 45 minute film. Youtube broadcast

Gyorgy Ligeti - Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes

A performance of Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes was broadcast by ARTE france. The video can be downloaded at UBUWEB, as well as information and transcript from the broadcast


Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes - Gyorgy Ligeti - Video from an ARTE (France) broadcast of Po�me Symphonique for 100 metronomes.

The video can also be viewed on google video

Google Video Broadcast

Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes - Google Video - 8 minutes

(following text from Google video, link above) "Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes has been very rarely performed in public. The complicated scenographic staging, the detailed ... all » preparation by hand, the need for around ten technicians to activate more or less simultaneously the 100 metronomes, makes the demand for performances limited. Thirty-two years after the premiere, the sculptor and installation artist Gilles Lacombe heard a recording of the work. Impressed, he decided to invent a machine able to perform the piece automatically. After six months, he set up this ingenious device. Ever since, Poème symphonique can be performed accurately, at any time, and in public." Video of the perfomace recorded in Rome, presented by an orchestra of 100 performers.

Anton Giulio Bragaglia - Thais - 1916

Link to Google Video Broadcast of:

Thais by Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Futurist Photographer / filmmaker

Thais on Google Video

"Avant-garde film, made using the concepts of the Italian Futurism. Directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia, screen play by Riccardo Cassano, based on the Anatole France's novel "Thaïs", 1916. French subtitles."

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Re:Positioning Fear


Re:Positioning Fear - Relational architecture - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, concept, direction, visuals, text

Oliver Gondrey - Bricoleur


Oliver Gondrey - Bricoleur - Video Clip Online

Georges Méliès - Le Mélomane - 1903

Google video broadcast

Writing Music!!!

Georges Méliès - l'homme orchestre - 1900

Google Video Broadcast

Georges Méliès - Trip to the Moon - 1902

Google Video Broadcast

Georges Méliès - L'homme a la tête en caoutchouc (1901)

YouTube Broadcast

Norman McLaren - Synchromy - 1971

Google video broadcast

Norman McLaren - Canon

Google video broadcast

Aurora Borealis

YouTube Broadcast "Music : Atmospheres by György Ligeti
"
Aurora Borealis

YouTube Broadcast "Music : Atmospheres by György Ligeti
"
Thermoesthesia (interactive art)

YouTube Broadcast - "Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Collaborators: Momoko Inose, Rie Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Collaborators: Momoko Inose, Rie Yokomotsu,
Kinya Fujita, Toshiie Kitazawa,
Mototsugu Tamura, Shinji Sasada
Kamakura, Japan
(小牛攝於 Siggraph 2006)"
Thermoesthesia (interactive art)

YouTube Broadcast - "Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Collaborators: Momoko Inose, Rie Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Collaborators: Momoko Inose, Rie Yokomotsu,
Kinya Fujita, Toshiie Kitazawa,
Mototsugu Tamura, Shinji Sasada
Kamakura, Japan
(小牛攝於 Siggraph 2006)"

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Norman McLaren - A Chairy Tale - 1957

Google video broadcast

Norman McLaren - Neighbours - 8mins - 1952

Google video broadcast



National Film Board of Canada
One of the many short films put out by the National Film Board of Canada. This one was headed by Norman McLaren, in 1952

Simon Doyle - Music in Similar Motion

Music by Philip Glass, Performed by Alarm Will Sound, Video by Simon Doyle
Images by the Squared Circle Group at Flickr.com

Demo Video online at:
http://video.thewub.com/glass/

Stan Brakhage - Prelude 5 (1985)

“PRELUDES 1-6 is comprised of six hand-painted and double-frame printed sections of 16mm film: No. 5 is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are constantly interrupted by "cloud"-like forms.”

More Resources
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/brakhage.html

Hans Richter - Dreams That Money Can Buy

Experimental Film directed by Hans Richter

"in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Leger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and others."

Hans Richter - Rhythm 23 (1923)



More Resources:
http://www.ubu.com/film/richter.html

Henry Mills - Kino Da (1981)

Video to download at ubuweb:
http://www.ubu.com/film/hills.html

"KINO DA! (1981) is a portrait of North Beach Communist cafe poet & gentle comrade, Jack Hirschman, editor of the "Artaud Anthology" (City Lights). Shot in sync with wind-up Bolex." Source: http://www.henryhills.com/films/kinoda.html

More Resources

http://www.henryhills.com/films/kinoda.html

Sound - John Cage and Kirk Roland 1966



avant garde minimalist jazz music performance noise experimental film

Further Resources:
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage.html
This site also provides a link to download "Sound"

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Lumiere Brothers

lumiere brother - The arrival of a train 1896

George Méliès - Voyage to the Moon - 1902


Georges Méliès - Voyage to the Moon - 1902

Abelardo Morell - Camera Osbscura - Photographer (US


Abelardo Morell - Photographer (US) - Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The simple process -- he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them -- produces photographs of complex beauty. The world outside is projected upside down into the room which he then photographs using long exposures. (Abelardo Morell, Bulfinch Press)
http://memberpictures.aol.com/aolvisions/ipcamera and http://www.abelardomorell.net/about.html

Edwin S. Porter - The Great Train Robbery - 1903

Google video broadcast

D.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation

Google video broadcast (all 3 hours!!!)

Lumiére Brothers - The Arrival of a train at la Ciotat Station - 1895

The Arrival of a train at la Ciotat Station - 1895
L'Arrivée d'un train en la Gare de la Ciotat

Google video broadcast



"Filmed in 1895, it was first shown to a paying audience in Paris, France on January 6, 1896. The 50-second silent film captures the entry of a steam locomotive into the train station in the French coastal town of la Ciotat. Like most of the other early Lumière films, L'Arrivée d'un train consists of a single, unedited "view" illustrating an aspect of everyday life...

The story goes that when the film was first shown, the audience was so overwhelmed by the moving image of a life-sized train coming directly at them that people screamed and ran to the back of the room."
Source text:
Wikopedia

YouTube Broadcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk&search=ciotat

Dickson Experimental Sound Film - 1895

Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)

W.K.L. Dickson plays the violin in front of a horn connected to a cylinder recording machine. Frames from early experimental attempt to create sound motion pictures by the Edison Manufacturing Company.

Eugene Sandow may 18 1894

Eugene Sandow may 18 1894

Vaudeville Act - Eugene Sandow - Edison Studios

Virigl Wildrich - Copyshop - 2001


Virigil Wildrich - Copyshop - 2001

Golan Levin - Messa di Voce

Golan Levin - Messa di Voce

Youtube broadcast - "An Audiovisual Performance & Installation
for Voice and Interactive Media
by Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman
with Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara
Created Summer 2003
http://www.tmema.org/messa/"

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Norman McLaren - A Chairy Tale


Norman McLaren - A chairy tale - play film online at National Film Board of Canada