Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, known as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. His sculptures communicate through their noisy and multifaceted movements where both the functions as well as the movements become art.
Video: Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Duration: 15 minutes; language: Japanese
Jimi Hendrix 07-30-1970
Raibow Bridge Concert
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of conversation between Pat Hartley, Wein and Hendrix.
Joost Rekveld (1970) has been making abstract films and light installations since 1991, originally starting out from the idea of a visual music for the eye. He has been making most of his animated films with optical and mechanical setups, using the computer as a controller and composition machine in order to orchestrate the precise movements of optical components. His installation making grew out of the tools he developed to make his films, often inspired by the lesser frequented by-ways in the history of science and technology. His work so far has dealt with various forms of scanning, or with concepts related to the early history of optics and perspective. His interest in the spatial aspects of light triggered a shift away from the screen, towards more architectural and theatrical forms of work. At the moment he is becoming increasingly implicated in activities that resemble cybernetics, artificial life and robotic architecture.
His films have been shown worldwide in a broad range of festivals and venues for experimental, animated or otherwise short films. He has collaborated on many theatre projects, often with dance group Emio Greco | PC or music theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek. He has been putting together many programmes about the history of abstract animation and light art, culminating in the 9th edition of Sonic Acts: Sonic Light 2003. In 2004 he curated ‘4D in the Filmmuseum’ a large exhibition, series of screenings and lectures for the Dutch Filmmuseum. Since 2008 he is the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague. (source: homepage)
Below is a 2 part interview about patterns and how he applied them to film #37. It is mainly in English with a short German part that is kind of self-explanatory:
Babelgum has made this full featured film available for streaming on their site (see bottom of this post). You can find Cindy Sherman's work at her website HERE, but the film is more about Paul H-O and his GalleryBeat broadcasts at Manhattan Cable.
Paul H-O became a fixture of the New York art scene in the 1990s with his public access show GalleryBeat. Armed with a video camera, he attended art gallery openings, amusing some with his candid, witty assessments of their work, but also winning many fans. Among the latter was Cindy Sherman, the press-shy artist who is internationally acknowledged as one of the worlds most gifted and significant visual talents. Cindy invites Paul to her studio for a series of exclusive interviews and through these videotaped encounters, he gains unprecedented insight into her artistic process and a romantic relationship blossoms. Their initial bliss ends when Paul finds himself wracked with anxiety about his own personality becoming subsumed by his role as Cindy's guest at the celebrity-studded openings and dinners she regularly attends.
Filmed over 15 years and including interviews with a veritable who's who of the art and entertainment world (including Ingrid Sischy, John Waters, Robert Longo, Carol Kane, David Furnish, Danny DeVito, and Molly Ringwald), the film paints a vivid picture of the New York art scene that is also a witty, illuminating look at celebrity, male anxiety, and art. (source: YouTube byline)
James Whitney with his brother John altered analogue computer equipment to give John the opportunity to create Lapis in 1966. James drew dot patterns for this film, but the camera was controlled by computer, allowing the images to be overlaid in multiple forms. The algorithmic, kaleidoscope like patterns, in combination with the sitar music, are mesmerizing and trance-full.
"In the early 1960s digital computers became available to artists for the first time (although they cost from $100,000 to several millions, required air conditioning, and therefore located in separate computer rooms, uninhabitable ‘studios’; programs and data had to be prepared with the keypunch, punch cards then fed into the computer; systems were not interactive and could produce only still images). The output medium was usually a pen plotter, microfilm plotter (hybrid bwn vector CRT and a raster image device), line printer or an alphanumeric printout, which was then manually transferred into a visual medium." (source)
This is a very clever animation all made up of logos, showing the corporate cut-throat attitude the capitalist needs to have to survive.
"Nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar, Logorama takes place in a world full of corporate and brand logos (in which roughly 2,500 appear), and it follows a few different stories that all intertwine with one another. Honestly, it's bloody brilliant, and I guarantee it'll be the best thing you watch all week." (source)
A passion for the doing ...and he also discusses "time" and how he sees it, "happiness", "movement", "consciousness" and many other issues. The first minute of part 1 is in German, then everything else is in English. Each part is around 9 minutes long and the discussion is based on unscripted questions from the audience.
On November 11th 2007 David Lynch visited Vienna, Austria. In the cinema "Gartenbaukino" he answered questions on his films, work and doing, his method of catching ideas, Transcendental Meditation and his projects "Invincible University" & "The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace"
LINK Part 1 of 8 LINK Part 2 of 8 LINK Part 3 of 8 LINK Part 4 of 8 LINK Part 5 of 8 LINK Part 6 of 8 LINK Part 7 of 8 LINK Part 8 of 8
If I screwed up witn a link please try to find it HERE, and I would also like to thank Director Christian for putting this on the net!
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Paul H-O became a fixture of the New York art scene in the 1990s with his public access show GalleryBeat. Armed with a video camera, he attended art gallery openings, amusing some with his candid, witty assessments of their work, but also winning many fans. Among the latter was Cindy Sherman, the press-shy artist who is internationally acknowledged as one of the worlds most gifted and significant visual talents. Cindy invites Paul to her studio for a series of exclusive interviews and through these videotaped encounters, he gains unprecedented insight into her artistic process and a romantic relationship blossoms. Their initial bliss ends when Paul finds himself wracked with anxiety about his own personality becoming subsumed by his role as Cindy's guest at the celebrity-studded openings and dinners she regularly attends.
A passion for the doing ...and he also discusses "time" and how he sees it, "happiness", "movement", "consciousness" and many other issues. The first minute of part 1 is in German, then everything else is in English. Each part is around 9 minutes long and the discussion is based on unscripted questions from the audience..jpg){kind=small}