This is one of the examples, that shows, that beautiful things don’t need a high budget and expensive hardware.
Most of the time it’s “just” having a good idea and a sensitive view for the simple, but beautiful things and details around you.
Ok, being in South Spain makes this quite an easier challenge, than residing in North London, but the second video of photographer Vicente Sahuc just proofs, that the right idea can work everywhere.
It has been shot on rollerblades (with a cheap steady cam handle) in New York, with a consumer camera (Canon EX-F1) with slow motion capabilities (in this case 300 frames per second) and the final edit and colour grade are really well done.
I just can’t stop watching the South Spain video over and over again … let’s pack our bags darling!
Originally created for live VJ performances, London based artist Lukas Vojir has put together bits and pieces (and a hint of colour) and has now created this beautifully animated film to the track Stately by Efdemin.
The animation follows the basic idea of a Rube Goldberg machine or a colossal assembly line placed into a strange, Metropolis-like, urban, black and white environment somewhere in the future.
Lukas Vojir is also the initiator of the great processing monsters series, which squeezes a lot of furry and fun live out of some lines of programming language.
Code has never been that cosy – except you are afraid of monsters ;)
”Mr. EAT is Ecological Trash Annihilator which produces energy from any type of waste. It is universal answer for pollution, and quick way of cleaning any kind of space from biological and chemical trash. Please buy one! Make your enviroment better.”
“This video is part of a visualisation of two audio tracks (named “movement_3″ and “movement_1″) by the dutch musician martijn tellinga. I made it in 2007, with macromedia director, based on algorithms. The original videos are 18min and 10min long. This is an excerpt of part 1 (“movement_3″).”
Description by the artist
Screenshot “Movement_3” – Direct link to Quicktime video: Movement_3
“Parks on Fire is the latest short graphic film creation of digital artist Scott Pagano. It is an exploration of the complex, interpenetrated, and reflective relationships of structure, form, and motion that both bind and conflict the natural and manmade worlds. The experience is a visual and aural expedition through a series of uniquely explicated environments. Stunning synthetic worlds of micro precision evolve and meld in to landscapes of natural forms evoking the achingly unknowable sublime that is here captured, redefined and expressed via intensive digital reprocessing. Sound and image drive each other to create the uncanny sense that both are emerging from the same dammed-but-divine ethereal engine. The lush cinematic soundtrack is by Trifonic, and is available on their debut release Emergence.”
“Pinch of Peer is solely inspired by the 1950 publication “Notations” compiled by Fluxus Pioneer – John Cage. As a large collection of abstract graphic music notations, the book unveils countless ways in which music was written graphically by the leading composers of that time. Ben Sheppee has drawn together some of the best sketches from this book, revised them digitally and presented them as syncronized animated compositions to the music of dutch based sound artist Kettel. Contrasting to a large part of the electronic based content that currently dominates the visual scene, this work brings together history and contemporary techniques in timeless classical audiovisual work.”
Synopsis by the artist
Screenshot “Pinch Of Peer” – Currently no online version available.
“That’s the way to do it. The Devil is dead! Now everyone can do as he likes!”
Mr. Punch (Punch and Judy puppet show)
“Wicked Finger Mind’s Eye is a short finger-puppet piece, ala Punch and Judy, where the basic natural process of destruction as carrier of creation is highlighted in a tragic yet comic audio-visual collage. The footage of the material was produced at the Experimental Television Centre in New York during an artist in residency in April 2008. The music i.e., soundtrack, is a remix of Goblin’s Zombi by Viennese DJ and producer Mikeburns.”
Description by the artist
Screenshot “Wicked Finger” – Direct link to Flash video: Wicked Finger
AV Social is an audio-visual event series, that places international audio-visual live acts and art into a public, social happening with food and spirits. Initiated by Oli Sorenson, the head of the London based VJ label and visual production studio Ne1co, the AV Social is on the jump of touring the UK on a regular basis.
The latest event in November 2008 took place in the Tate Liverpool as a “Late At Tate” program and the night was really nice with very positive feedback from all sides. Besides the live AV acts (this time VJ Koichi Chikuhi and Ne1co Allstars), one part of every AV Social happening is a screening of short movies with a balanced relation between what you hear and what you see.
We have been asked to curate the screening and were happy to be able to select from a beautiful range of international submissions, which we now want to showcase as an extension of the AV Social and for your audio-visual pleasure.
“The moment I found out the world is different from the world I dreamed of, I rebelled. I started to paint the world as I wanted it to be. … Over time my passion grew. Not only do I want to just tell my own stories, I also try to make them ‘fit’ into the music. … As myths from different cultures have crossed paths and influenced each other, combining their symbols into a myriad of possible meanings, the remaining task, as I see it, has been to interpret and unlock their hidden message. …”
“Taken from the debut Origamibiro album ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, this promo follows the true story of the first day in the life of a dragonfly: from its underwater birth, through its struggles with flight and the new and vibrant world it has found itself in, and finally to its first perilous encounters with humans. Will it survive to make its escape and fly to freedom? This promo marks the first of many collaborations between musician and producer Origamibiro and video artist The Joy of Box. It is an illustration of the process of artistic creation itself: from the birth of the idea, through erratic evolution of idea into a living and breathing project, to the release of a fully fledged artwork. The big question is: how do you make it fly?”
“A few hours spent in the company of some people who came to town from the coast and live in a park next to a train track. More a memory of a place, than a documenting of the plight of the homeless. Shot in Tokyo may 06, the negative for this short was cut up and given away with the first 1000 copies of the av album greedy baby. Filmed on kodak vision2 200 super 8 stock with a Beaulieu 6008pro.”
“Drift is a collaboration with music composer Mark Bowden, devised during an Aldeburgh Music residency. Drift considers the body as landscape through close-up images of skin. The music likewise takes a close-up view of a series of harp chords and viola harmonics. Using real photography in extreme close-up creates a foreign yet familiar world, removed from reality, yet sometimes almost too close. In the music, this tension is mirrored. Original samples are exploded into a multitude of tiny elements before being reconstructed into a tight arrangement based on the Fibonacci series.”
