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Film Music
directed by Stephanie Bolt and Eric Lesdema United Kingdom, Music, 2001, Game Boy Camera, 00:03:30 Low-tech-no-budget piece; overt dramatics; crude special effects rudely borrowed from early cinema.... more info | ||
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Apple
directed by Gregg Biermann USA, Experimental, 2005, Color, 00:03:00 “Apple” is a healthy and appetizing episode in a series of digitally animated pieces inspired by the direct film tradition. This tradition includes works in which the filmstrip is directly manipulated by painting, scratching, or otherwise placing objects on it. To create my piece I cut an apple in half and scanned the both sides of the two pieces into my computer. I then took the image files of the apple pieces and “pasted” them directly into the video strip using a photo editing software package. This technique then transforms the apple pieces into what appears to be a random exploding jumble of images when viewed. The jumbled video stream is composited and intercut with a series of and sem... more info | ||
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Boy In The Air, The
directed by Lyn Elliot USA, Experimental, 2005, Color, Dolby Digital, 00:02:00 An enigmatic advertisement inspires a letter. The corporation writes back.... more info | ||
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Childhood
directed by Shizuko Tabata Japan, Experimental, 2001, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30 Is the memory of your childhood a happy or sad one? Everything has gone to the past, but we can only look forward.... more info | ||
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Confusion
directed by Laurent Pernot France, Experimental, 2005, DV/Computer Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:15 A naked man is balanced slowly. Little by little, several faces replace those of the body until scrambling its identity. ... more info | ||
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Current
directed by Brian Doyle USA, Experimental, 2001, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 In the vacated downtown of a metropolis a storm approaches and envelops – except this is no ordinary meteorological phenomenon. A digital wind blows the debris from an overflow of information – the city is now occupied by a rushing whirlwind carrying a tangled mass of communication. currentdocuments the path of this storm blowing through an abandoned city like tumbleweed through a ghost town. As devices of technology hovering in enclaves between the skyscrapers seem to monitor or perhaps even cause the storm, the city is consumed, erased by a blanket of information.... more info | ||
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Gesichtsmusik
directed by Benjamin B. Kinsley USA, Experimental, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:20 GESICHTSMUSIK is a musical self-portrait. The work examines my personal sounds and musical expressiveness. Through this process driven work, a musical composition is revealed which is distinct to my person. The work is titled GESICHTSMUSIK which is German for FACE MUSIC because it was created during my 5 month stay at the Fachhochshule Schwäbisch Hall, in Germany.... more info | ||
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Thread
directed by Mike Bragg USA, Experimental, 2006, Color, Dolby Digital, 00:03:15 Thread is an experimental short visual poem that follows a fleeting memory into the depths of the unconscious and back. From a sip of water to the memory of the rain on a windshield, thread follows a simple and its circular nature.... more info | ||
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Le Silence Est En Marche
directed by Pierre-Yves Cruaud France, Experimental, 2001, Video, 00:03:30 Insuperable barriers limit vital space of more or less human activities. We attend the development of already regulated lives.... more info | ||
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Full Circle
directed by Patricia Townsend United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, mini DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 Using a fixed camera position, water was recorded spiraling down a plughole. Alterations in speed and direction are used to create a continuous loop in which water rhythmically rises and falls, enters and emerges. As it does so, the circular shape is transformed and reflections are revealed, hidden or distorted, creating the illusion that the subject of the piece is not a solid object but, rather, a mercurial, liquid substance. The "eye" of the camera interacts with the "eye" of the plughole, questioning the relationship between observer and observed. The motif of the spiral is found in diverse cultures, both East and West. For Carl Jung, a clockwise spiral denoted the unfolding of the ... more info | ||
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spam letter + google image search = video entertainment
directed by Andre Silva USA, Experimental, 2005, DV, Color, Magnetic Monaural, 00:03:00 Each word of a spam letter is matched with one of hundreds of available online images that have been linked, in some way, to that word.... more info | ||
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Snow Seen from Warm Window
directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 2000, Digital, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 Last winter's snow seen from Mark's window.... more info | ||
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75% PAL Bars Horse
directed by Tina Willgren Sweden, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:45 Animated color bars and the sound of horses. AN ode to a logical collapse.... more info | ||
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Text Field
directed by Jake Messenger and Chirstinn Whyte United Kingdom, Animation, 2002, DV, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:00 A single continuous take of improvised movement, translated into an ascii-based animation, with a soundtrack generated by a computer read-out of the sequence's final frame.... more info | ||
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Technical Aids
directed by Kasumi USA, Experimental, 2001, 16 mm, DV, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:04:10 A halluncinatory montage of images and sound is the stream of consciousness of a soul burdened by the judgment of others. ... more info | ||
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Rien ne va plus
directed by Julie-Christine Fortier Canada, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, 00:02:10 The rotation and it’s hypnotizing effects created in this video-performance open an abstract space while the sound evokes a entertainment environment.... more info | ||
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Whizeewhig
directed by Chihcheng Peng USA, Experimental, 2002, digital video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 A brisk jaunt around downtown San Francisco reveals a few new sights. What you see is what you get.... more info | ||