10 minute experimental film. Warning: this video involves frequent strobing.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Highlights (2017)
Lights flicker & fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.
Finds Itself in Corners (2017)
Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.
Aridity Enclosure 1 (2017)
Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.
We Could All Do With a Little Back & Forth As Far As It Concerns the To & Fro of Everywhere Each of Us Go (2017)
(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.
Moonwalker (1988)
Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Jackson, some of which are long-form music videos from Jackson's 1987 album Bad. The film is named after his famous dance, "the moonwalk", which he originally learned as "the backslide" but perfected the dance into something no one had seen before. The movie's introduction is a type of music video for Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" but is not the official video for the song. The film then expresses a montage of Michael's career, which leads into a parody of his Bad video titled "Badder", followed by sections "Speed Demon" and "Leave Me Alone". What follows is the biggest section where Michael plays a hero with magical powers and saves three children from Mr. Big. This section is "Smooth Criminal" which leads into a performance of "Come Together".
This Cacophony Runs Over Me (2017)
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
Beatles Electroniques (1969)
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.
Cremaster 5 (1997)
Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.
What You Mean We? (1986)
WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson.
All Those Things (2017)
Something I know or something I was told? When something scalding translates something to behold.
Ruminative Meditations (2017)
Say Om as you reach home only to realize you never really left/stopped saying Om.
Bedways (2010)
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous mélange.
Calypso (1955)
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.
Scanning of Modulations (2001)
Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005)
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the "Lemming Syndrome".