Music Video
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
In Bb 2.0 is a "collaborative music and spoken word project" from Darren Solomon. With just the native YouTube playback interface, multiple clips can be played and controlled to create your own soothing musical mix.
Related:
MetaFilter thread on In Bb 2.0
Bb Buddha Machine, a randomizing version for continuous playback (Via MetaFilter Projects.)
Tosca - My First (YouTube)
Music video from Tosca seems to be an anime scene with all the people and action taken out.
Feeder - Tracing Lines (QuickTime)
Feeder - Tracing Lines (YouTube)
Music video by director Robin Schmidt for the band Feeder.
Thanks to Robin Schmidt.
VV Brown - LEAVE! (QuickTime)
VV Brown - LEAVE! (YouTube)
VV Brown - LEAVE! (Behind the Scenes) (YouTube)
Video for VV Brown by OneInThree. The behind-the-scenes clip is mostly an interview of the singer but it shows glimpses of the production process.
Thanks to Bugsy Steel.
Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again (Live on Pitchfork.tv A>D>D) (Flash Video)
Max Tundra is known to do pretty much everything himself when making his records, as this clip ably illustrates.
From the Pitchfork.tv page:
Brit electro-pop mastermind Max Tundra is but one man. Yet-- through the wonders of four-track recording and digital editing-- he clones himself to pull off all the drums, guitar, piano, keyboard, melodica, vocals and handclaps necessary to nail this antic anthem about digital love.
His last album Parallax Error Beheads You is ace.
François Macré - Thriller (64-Track A Cappella Version) (YouTube)
Massive breakdown and reconstruction of Michael Jackson's Thriller by François Macré. There are numerous multi-track a cappella music videos on YouTube, but this one would be hard to beat in many ways. I wish a much larger, higher-res version was available. Also, it might be interesting to (1) watch the original Thriller video alongside this clip, and (2) re-edit the clip significantly to highlight the different voice tracks (especially their entries and exits with respect to the overall song stream) by using pans, zooms, and animated subframes.
Update: Macré says we can watch a high-quality, full-screen version on Dailymotion.
De Staat - The Fantastic Journey of the Underground Man (YouTube)
Fun and tricky is-it-or-isn't-it video by Andre Maat for Holland's De Staat. Maat says: "It seems to be a classic split-screen performance music video but then turns out to be visual trickery. We shot all effects in-camera, playing with the set-design, perspectives and colours. All 'splits' are made from wood, zippers, gaffa tape, etc." Good stuff.
Thanks to Andre Maat.
Jemapur - Maledict Car (YouTube)
Jemapur - Maledict Car (QuickTime) [BACON]
Director Kosai Sekine's clip for Jemapur is a collection of mirrored views of Tokyo at night. A single-minded focus on a simple technique (plus a city full of excellent source material) leads to a beautifully evocative piece.
Sekine explains the video's concept:
When I first listened to the track, it reminded me of geometric and mathematical imagery, and perspective views of Tokyo. So for this music video, I’d like to propose to develop an intricate visual montage or series of patterns of multiple Tokyo cityscapes. The urban swirl of buildings, neon signs, vending machines, expressways, these are all very familiar sights, though I also wanted to include the people and characters who live within this patchwork environment. This idea began to expand and became amplified into a more formal visual pattern like that of a mandala or kaleidoscope.
This led me to decide on a direction and concept for this promo, with the theme of “let’s look behind Tokyo, read between the lines, by developing various visual patterns”. The landscape of the city will be portrayed geometrically. Using simple editing approaches such as inversion, split screen and collage, we look into the varying parts of Tokyo by amplifying and multiplying them. Seeing these visuals, the audience will be impressed by the beauty of the city, though at the same time they may also sense something odd, have a feeling of floating, or perhaps think of ugliness, and be disorientated or confused. Not only shooting the landscape, we’ll also shoot portraits of people who are living in Tokyo. Again we will use similar editing and compositing techniques, though the people featured will add some depth, humanity and character to the visuals.
Thanks to Susanne.
David Hopkinson - Cutting Up My Friends (YouTube)
Another wonderful sample-driven piece from David Hopkinson who edited Monkey Jazz from yesterday.
