“The Midnight Sun”Twilight Zone1962
Welcome to Camp Crystal Lake (Friday the 13th, 1980, Dir. Sean S Cunningham)
Does God Dream of Dust In The Wind? Dir. Lukasz Pytlik - 2011
A lyrical stream of consciousness around an act of violence. Amazing music and shocking visuality. Always good stuff coming out of the former eastern Bloc.
Black Gate Cologne - Aldo Tambellini & Otto Piene - 1968
This was the first collaboration between experimental video artists and television broadcasters. A momentous occasion for the development and acceptance of video art. These artists wanted to create a total sensory experience through the direct audience application of television.
Cosmic Ray - Bruce Conner (1962)
Low Tide - dir. Alexandra Gorczynski
I love the hot beach babe and grainy, lo-fi effects. This has a great, funky soundtrack with cool beats. It’s a hallucination from sitting in front of the TV for too long…or looking a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Calender after drinking too much cough syrup.
HOORAY - dir. Moritz Uebele
This Super 8 Film is a beautiful example of the possibilities of direct application. It completely deconstructs suspension of disbelief in regard to a film. The viewer can watch the elements of the film reel roll along without any attempt to conceal them. The free-form “sculpting” of the film stock with random colours and textures represents a disregard for classic filmic techniques of continuity and form. It’s an experiment that went wonderfully right.
Submarine - dir. Richard Ayoade - 2001
A boy tries at all costs to lose his virginity and save his parents marraige. This movie looks excellent. It has that refined, dry, sophisticated-old-school-production design/smoking motif that clearly draws from movies of the French New Wave and those of Wes Anderson….but I’ll buy it.
This film looks to be an well done exercise of those film devices and I will have to eat them up. They remind me of the determine virgin stomping through disconnect to find a warm place to lay that lives inside all of us. Also, it’s produced by Ben Stiller and has Noah Taylor (the guy who played Wolodarsky in The LIfe Aquatic) as the man character’s father.
New England Reverb (2011) - MIke Stoltz
Very moving, powerful, abstract music video, really attests to the power of a soundtrack to set a mood, dramatic, but also completely unserious, I’d like to hear what people think about this…
Mike Stoltz is a music/video artist based outta Providence. His film In Between just won a top prize at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. Congratulations!
