Monday, October 12, 2009

James Houston - Big Ideas (don't get any)

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Zeitguised: Peripetics

Peripetics from zeitguised on Vimeo.

Zeitguised made a piece in six acts for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. It entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt - Magnetic Movie (2007)

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

More info here semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm

An Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.

Daniel Franke - One Minute Soundsculpture (2009)

One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Jeff Scher - Milk of Amnesia (1992)

Robert Seidel - _grau (2004)

_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

Award-winning experimental film _grau for the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …

Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: "_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel's work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation--communicating a 'coming to terms' with the aftermath of a car accident--you realise why."

Robert Seidel | 10:01 minutes | Germany 2004 | 2minds.de

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Tal Rosner - Without You (2008)

Thorsten Fleisch: Energie! (2007)

Energie! from Thorsten Fleisch on Vimeo.

From a mere technical point of view the TV/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For ‘Energie!’ an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of 30.000 volts exposes multiple sheets of photographic paper which are then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization. Even though the result is abstract it tells a universal story older than the world itself.

Music by Jens Thiele.

(beware flashing)

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