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Thibaut Is Singing On Oberstein Road (2008, 15.5MB, 2:36 min) Rules of Engagement (2008, 18.1MB, 2:15 min) Tremendous work from Robert Croma. The Iraq piece is harrowing but you should watch it nonetheless. The Thibaut piece is simply exhilarating. I was trying to figure out what exactly makes this work so outstanding. I don t think it s just the fact that it is technically so good (although it is). It s to do with Croma s taste, judgement instinct, or at least how he deploys these to tell us something, or rather to intuit-to-us something about being a human being. You couldn t make a rule of it, for that would render it inert mechanical, but, loosely, in these two pieces, it seems to me to lie in a going-beyond -the-expected - a process with its heart in the little codas which open out the pieces in a quite extraordinary way. So the Iraq piece, though supremely well done, is initially not a million miles away from much other remix type work, but it is the final calling-to-attention, the framing, of the gait of one of the people whom we have just seen obliterated that re-doubles its horror but also creates the tiniest ground for hope in the inescapable (thanks to Croma) clear recognition of our common humanity. A similar process occurs in the Thibaut piece - its potency initially seems to reside in the simplicity of the camera exploring the still, the conjunction of the new and old imaging technology and the simple moving fact of evocation of time passed. It s beautiful; and many would have been tempted to leave it there. The final section is a risk - it could have have the opposite effect to what it actually does; it could have closed off, made pat. Here perhaps the technical fluency does play a defining role but the effect is the exact opposite of closure -we re left, once again, in a very different way, filled with a sense of the mystery complexity possibility ( the fragility) of being human.

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (2007, 13.6 MB, 2:25 min.) Sexy remix action from Director S.MacKay-Smith using footage from Till West DJ Delicious, TV Rock, Dirty South and Claude Von Stroke. By Fedde Le Grand.

Violin Power (clip, 1978, 2.1MB, 1:17 min) The Vasulkas, husband wife team Woody Steina, have devoted over thirty years to an intensive exploration of the possibilities of electronic image making. It’s a strange paradox, perhaps, that this exploration, which has been highly formal technical in nature should also be so deeply poetic. Of the six clips here the first three are by Steina the second three by Woody (these being extracts from a single work ‘Art of Memory’) Also, a link to their excellent website, which as well as many other video clips, contains comprehensive documentation of their work, including pdfs of complete exhibition catalogues. Sky High (clip, 1982, 1.3MB, 48 sec) Warp (clip, 2000, 1.7MB, 1:04 min) Art of Memory (clip, 1987, 1.1MB, 43 sec) Art of Memory #2 (clip, 1987, 1.6MB, 1:02 min) Art of Memory #3 (clip,1987, 1MB, 25 sec)

White Glove Tracking (2007, 45.5MB, 7:34) At a televised special in March 1983, Michael Jackson debuted what would later become known as his signature Moonwalk. He wore a shiny jacket, cuffed pants, and a sparkling little white glove while gyrating around the stage. It s nearly impossible to deny the brilliance of Billy Jean, and there it was - in some kind of larger than life, glittery manifestation of the zeitgeist. All very exciting, no? But tracking Jacko s glove - this collection of videos known under the umbrella White Glove Tracking - is an unparalleled feat, as are the resulting remixes. 10,060 frames were tracked, the data was collectively gathered, and all of the source code was made available online. Coding ensued. Here are the highlights so far.

Roundhay Remix (2006, 15.6MB, 1.57 min.) A beautiful remix of the Roundhay Garden Scene, from 1888, one of the first films ever made. from Pouringdown.

6|_|E$+ §+4R+ (2008, 8.4 MB, 18 sec. loop) A palindrome by Jimpunk from TRIPTYCH.TV.

MOON CRASH (2008, 58 MB, 4:42 min.) MOON CRASH is a 360 degree immersive experience using DJ sets and mutant slides, painted live with video projections. All visuals are painted on acetate using slide mounts, vitrail glass paint and drops of water. The paints are solvent based and don’t mix with the water; the water creates a vacuum which permits the movement. Each time the slides are projected they form a unique landscape. The slides also react to the heat of the projector. These slides have a short life as the water tends to evaporate and the slides to dry. The slides are painted, projected, filmed and manipulated live mixed with pre-edited materials. *Proposal for a Rhizome.org commission.

iua met I (2005, 46MB, 6:43 min.) inside us all, winners of the 2005 diesel music VJ competition.

Okie Dokie (2008, 46MB, 2:47 min) Neat bit of videoing by Dave Hughes for Dan Deacon s Okie Dokie. Sparky intelligent both ( nice use of Prelinger footage, cheeky rather than earnest, makes a change)

Irark (2003, 5.7 MB, 5 min.) ME (2001, 18.5 MB, 2:45 min.) Simply great stuff from Austrian ‘art-technology-philosophy’ group monochrom. Also recommended: their excellent CSI oven cloth. - I got mine already!

What’s He Building? (2006, 6.7MB, 1 min.) Matt Smithson is a gifted illustrator whose videos incorporate text, drawing and photography into rich animated collages. This video perfectly complements the Tom Waits reading it accompanies.

Hanging Around (2008, 14.7MB, 1:35 min) Cuckoo Land (2008, 28.6MB, 3:03 min) Alone (2008, 6.2MB, 51 secs) From John Murphy, whose work we ve featured here before. Three videos which differ sharply in tone and which despite a apparent simplicity of construction resonate long afterwards. Case study: Cuckoo Land. * found footage **the good old forwards/backwards shtick still amusing/engaging enough in this case to hold one s attention, but ***the muzak Grieg piano concerto on the way back seemed a bit like over-egging it at first but I find it speaks to me here more than the rather crude formal device might warrant. Partly this is due to the setting. Each piece gains in depth from its association with the others, but I wonder also whether it isn t a sign of great artistic confidence on Murphy s part: Here s what I did - make of it what you will!

Scenes of Provincial Life (2005, 3.5MB, each loop 25 sec.) Well, it does what it says on the box - let it loop and pretty much every cycle will be different, both image sound. #87 in a continuing sequence, my first but definitely won’t be my last to use Sprite Tracks to create generativity. by - Michael Szpakowski.

at interval (1977/2006, 24.3MB, 13:22 min) More remarkable work from Nathaniel Stern as he reworks, in the most curious of ways, Woody Allen s Annie Hall Interesting that although the working method here seems almost diametrically opposed to the hands on, performative approach found in his odys series here too is that same sense of the fragility vulnerability of human beings and their bodies psyches of the unreliability of the language we use to try make what we want to happen to relate or lie about what did .

Forgot (2008, 98.3MB, 12:06 min) This is simply wonderful. Doron s work is strange - it doesn t lend itself to blow by blow verbal description: er.. Some actors perform in a silent movie based on Waiting for Godot Then you actually look at it (or if you haven t you should, you really should). The grammar of his editing is completely unique mysterious (a feature of all his longer pieces). Why did he do that? - Dunno - but it made my spine tingle Work like this often slips under the radar because it has no easy marketing line, it can t be glibly summed up, reduced to an easily digestible one-liner. Work like this is food you have to chew a little but what flavour what nourishment! Also, the acting ( and the director/actor collaboration) is outstanding. Smart, funny, puzzling, touching by turns and generous also With Theodore Bouloukos, Joanne Douglas, Brian Gibson and Stephanie Noritz