Video is part of my body

30 April 2011 • out of context
tags: body, quotes, video

“Video is part of my body; it’s intuitive and unconscious.”

Bill Viola

Watchings

25 July 2010 • watchings
tags: civilization, comedy, documentaries, fiction, humour, psychogeography, space, television, tv series, video, walking

• Nip/Tuck (2003 – 2010)
Ryan Murphy

• London (1994) [watch]
Patrick Keiller

• The IT Crowd. Series 4 (2010)

Watchings

16 April 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, capitalism, cinema, consumism, documentaries, economy, found footage, humour, nature, politics, television, tv series, vampires, video

• Simplicité volontaire et décroissance (2007) [watch]
Jean-Claude Decourt

• The IT Crowd. Series 1-3 (2006-2008)

• Full Frontal (2002)
Steven Soderbergh

• Innocent Blood (1992)
John Landis

• Footprints (1992)
Bill Morrison

• The Bats (1998)
Jim Trainor

• C’mon Babe (1988)
Sharon Sandusky

• Swamp (1971)
Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson

• Hyas et sténorinques (1927)
Jean Painlevé

• Science Friction (1959)
Stan Vanderbeek

• Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967)
Jan Svankmajer

• Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
Adrian Brunel

• Supermâché, aire de pique-nique (2008)
Laurent Sfar & Jean Guillaud

Mental Colonization

21 March 2010 • out of context
tags: capitalism, consumism, documentaries, economy, politics, quotes, video

“La publicité (…) c’est la plus grande entreprise de colonisation mentale.”

Serge Latouche in Simplicité volontaire et décroissance [watch]

Watchings

13 December 2009 • watchings
tags: cinema, found footage, freedom, lightnings, pornography, sex, structuralism, television, video, vienna aktionists

• Act of God (1980)
Peter Greenaway

• Shift (1972-74)
Ernie Gehr

• Sentimental Punk (1979) [watch]
Kurt Kren

• Scheiss-Kerl (1969)
Otto Mühl

• A Movie (1958) [watch]
Bruce Conner

• V for Vendetta (2005)
James McTeigue

Watchings

22 November 2009 • watchings
tags: cinema, installations, music, sound, video

• A World of Art: Works in Progress: 3. Bill Viola [watch]

• Exploring the World of Music: 1. Sound, Music, and the Environment [watch]

• Adebar (1957) [watch]
Peter Kubelka

• Manufraktur (1985) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky

• Recreation (1956) [watch]
Robert Breer

Readings

7 November 2009 • readings
tags: analysis, articles, brain, cinema, dreamachine, flicker, hallucinations, television, video, videoart, visualmusic

• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009.

• Décor by Timothy Leary [read]
Mark Alen. The New York Times. January 20, 2005.

• The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde
Ina Bloom. Leonardo – Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001.

• Gnosis and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Cinephilia
Annette Michelson. October, Vol. 83 (Winter, 1998).

• Review: Yann Beauvais (ed.), Paul Sharits
Federico Windhausen. Animation: An interdisciplinary journal. July 2009, Volume 4, No. 2.

• The Films of Peter Kubelka
Earl Bodien. Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967).

Watchings

3 November 2009 • watchings
tags: cinema, death, flicker, music, noise, sound, video

• The Passing (1991)
Bill Viola

• Making of Scott Bartlett’s On/Off [watch]

• Sound of Noise: Synopsis par Jim Birmant [watch]

• Report (1967)
Bruce Conner

• N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968)
Paul Sharits

• Adoration (2008)
Atom Egoyan