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