HYMN OF RECKONING (2006, Kent Lambert, A+++++)

FAVORITE CLIPS


1.HYMN OF RECKONING (2006, Kent Lambert, A+++++)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEmplXlwUIA

I knew about this video from Ed Halter’s article.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/recycle-it-20080710


2.CORPORATE CANNIBAL (2008) – Grace Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMn2OJmx3w

I knew about this video from
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006442.html#more

I like the distorted images in CORPORATE CANNIBAL very much. This music video reminds me of the distorted images in

2.1 CHANGES – Planning to Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaP4yPWLnuA
Thanks to PC from Bioscope Webboard who told us about this artist.

2.2 ZOOM +/- (2008, Theerawat Maysasitthivit, Thai video installation, A+++++)
http://www.bloggang.com/viewdiary.php?id=merveillesxx&month=03-2008&date=23&group=9&gblog=35

2.3 BARNABY – My Toys Like Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5jDUsmMyY


3.THE BOY FROM MARS (2005, Philippe Parreno, A+++++)
http://www.ubu.com/film/parreno_mars.html
Thanks to Filmsick who told me about this.

I saw THE BOY FROM MARS in late December in 2005, so I put it in my list of most favorite short films of 2006.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/42/2006-world-poll-3.html#Phokaew

Philippe Parreno’s website
http://www.airdeparis.com/parreno.htm

I think THE BOY FROM MARS can be a part of an unintentional trilogy of films about light in the darkness. The two other films in this trilogy are

3.1 THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT (2000, Rob Kennedy, A+)

Description of this film from
http://www.transmediale.de/01/en/pres_emare.htm

“The two dimensional limits of the video screen are utilised to re-frame an un-extraordinary occurence. In the flatness of the video image light, colour and time abstract the landscape to create other orders”


3.2 PROSPERITY FOR 2008 (2008, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A+)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bSGuz1IJA


4.THE MAN WHO STRAYED (2002, Jesper Just, Denmark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH55pBOjaxU


5.NO MAN IS AN ISLAND II (2004, Jesper Just, Denmark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJw2HsNR8kE


6.ARTISTS LOOKING AT CAMERA (2006, Guthrie Lonergan)
http://www.andorgallery.com/shows/media/artist_looking.mov

The last artist is very cute. I knew about this video from Ed Halter’s article.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/recycle-it-20080710