Film
Multiple SIDosis (YouTube)
Sid Laverents passed away on May 6. He made one of my all-time favorites, Multiple SIDosis. An inspiration who never stopped making films. I hope to be able to see his other works in the future as they are in the process of being preserved.
Rest in peace.
Related:
Sid Laverents, Auteur of Homemade Films, Dies at 100 [New York Times]
MetaFilter thread on Sid Laverents's death
My Favorite Movie (Star Trek vs. Star Wars) (Flash Video)
Following on the heels of last week's Star Wars and Star Trek clips, here is a comparison in the style of The Curious Case of Forrest Gump.
Star Wars in Dallas (Opening title sequence) (YouTube)
Star Trek: The Next Generation in Dallas (Opening title sequence) (YouTube)
Dallas (Opening title sequences, seasons 1-7) (YouTube)
Funny reimaginings of Star Wars and Star Trek: The Next Generation as episodes of Dallas.
Via Boing Boing.
The Curious Case of Forrest Gump (Flash Video)
Eerie. And reductive. And pulled from YouTube as well, somewhat understandably.
Oscars 2009 - In Memoriam (YouTube)
Last Sunday's 2009 Academy Awards ceremony featured split screens at several moments. One of them was the In Memoriam portion during which multiple monitors of different sizes showed various footage related to the deceased. Unfortunately, YouTube seems to have pulled a better-quality clip that I was meaning to post, so here's one with a TV screen and ongoing commentary from a couch. Serves me right to not post this sooner.
Public Privacy (Flash Video)
Wendy Richmond uses her cellphone camera to record New Yorkers living their daily life in different settings such as museums and streets. The clips have been compiled into split-screen layouts, suggestive of the many-eyed watchfulness of surveillance cameras but with a quiet, personal tone.
From Richmond's New York Times article, one of NYT's The City Visible columns:
Like the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch us 24/7, I record the daily activities of city life: people waiting for the subway, walking their dogs, watching a parade, window shopping. But my goal is not to catch something out of the ordinary. In this project, which I call “Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone,” I seek just the opposite: the steady and mundane urban choreography that we all perform together. My grids are the culmination of the dances I’ve witnessed on a world-class stage: New York.
Thanks to Michael McPherson.
A Policy of Artifice (QuickTime)
Three Revolutions (QuickTime)
Two works by Frank Zadlo. A Policy of Artifice presents varying combinations of subframes showing chroma-keyed body parts and objects. Three Revolutions is described as "video documentation of channel-surfing through 100 analog tv channels, three times".
Thanks to Frank Zadlo.
Time of My Life (YouTube)
StartStopDemo3 (QuickTime)
The embedded clip is a snapshot of the ongoing Daily Photo Aging Project by Dan Hanna. It distinguishes itself from other photo-a-day time-lapse works by its duration of 17 years and its use of a custom ring apparatus.
From the project page:
The following image is of the apparatus that I am using to create a stop-motion animation of myself getting older. Every day I position myself in the center of this ring and take two simultaneous photos (180 degrees apart). The ring is marked off for the 365 days of the year and a pair of crosshairs (mounted on a sliding wooden fixture) are incremented along the circumference of the ring to line up with these markings. I use the crosshairs to position my head as nearly as possible in the center of the ring. So far, I've accumulated approximately 17 years worth of photos (the project was started in '91).
The second link above is for StartStopDemo3 by Steven Hoskins whose work I've posted before. Hoskins has collaborated with Hanna by taking the clip and reconfiguring the images in 32 asynchronous channels. The result calms the jittery headrush of the original and produces an evocative blur.
Thanks to Steven Hoskins.
The Walking Man (Phase One) (QuickTime)
A joint project by Will Luers and Joel Sugerman. So far there are six phases, each with what appears to be a research-lab report on human perception of and movement through space. You can start with the above link to the first phase; the webpage lets you move onto the subsequent phases.
On Soluble Fish, a videoblog described as a "text and moving image sketchpad focused on a poetics of net cinema", Luers has been posting many experiments with the multi-channel form. In 2007, I posted Haystack Rock by Luers who also runs Taylor Street Studio.
