‘Forever’, the analogue feedback music video for Love Of Diagrams screens in the Rojo Nova Audiovisual Sessions, happening July 1st – August 15th 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.rojo-nova.com If you cant make it to the museum in Brazil, you can watch the video here: http://www.messandnoise.com/tv/3916440
My regular screening night returns with films that were scheduled in May, but delayed due to Icelandic gods of vulkan interruption. Full details at http://www.electric-cinema.org Tuesday 8 June 2010 at Overtoom 301 Amsterdam Final Flesh 90′ dir. Vernon Chatman 2009 U.S.A. House 88′ dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi 1977 Japan From the creator of Xavier: Renegade Angel [...]
Three days in a cinema to pick the brain of Mike Figgis, director, artist and musician. Sugar and cocaine. Digital and celluloid. Grain and focus. Portrait and landscape. Hollywood and independence. Script-writing and score notation. Bullshit and real bullshit. Theatre and self-obsession. Pornography and J.L. Godard. Brilliant, real and inspiring. http://www.mikefiggis.co.uk Thanks to Janine Dijkmeijer at Cinedans.nl
Emile Zile (AU/LV) and Vela Arbutina (CH) play pre-recorded repetitive beat music that you can dance to. N0 M0RE! th0se t|mes are 0ver. |NSTANT DANCE ENJ0YMENT SP|RTUAL HEAL|NG 100%!!!! Bel|eve!!!!D|d y0u ever th|nk….. |t d0esnt w0rk!? N0w |t d0es! Ha 4real! Read 0n–B00MB00MBUSHD00F th|s w|ll help,My l0ved fr|ends t0ld me: “b0red0m and med|0cr|ty equals b0red0m [...]
I finished post-production on this video just as the Melbourne band embark on a string of dates in the U.S.A, including shows at SXSW. Try to see them if you are in that neck of the woods. They will be touring with the equally awesome Beaches. An occular assault edit of no-input analog video effects, [...]
This festival opens this weekend in Osaka. Jona is showing a number of my videos in the screening program. Check it out if you’re in the neighborhood. http://www.feavs.org
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/video-vortex-split/program
A late upload following recent activity, travel and shows. I found some time to go through a pile of unlabelled documentation dv tape from recent trips. Two performances included here, Marclay’s ‘Screenplay’ videoscore and Mengbo’s performative quake mod ‘Q2008′, recorded on hot, humid nights during last year’s E-Arts festival in Shanghai. These were highly enjoyable [...]
A giant of the Japanese impro scene, Otomo Yoshihide is performing at Steim Amsterdam this Sunday afternoon. The man behind a plethora of solo releases and the phenomenal collaborations I.S.O. and Ground-Zero. Performing solo and duo with Dj Sniff. Tip: get there early it will be packed. http://www.steim.org
In Hong Kong a compilation of Sandberg Institute artist’s video work that I curated was shown at Videotage (cheers Alvis and all that turned out) in Xiamen we held a group exhibition with Xiamen Art College students at CEAC and in Shanghai we had a few days off to soak in the big city mayhem. Christian Marclay’s Screen Play was [...]