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7 still frame film scans from “Peyote Queen.”

found via Anthology Film Archives

© Anthology Film Archives

(10:30, 16mm, B/W, sound, 2008 )

Divisible stand up comedy from beyond the grave, adjust your set, rabbits ears tuned to the Bardo Plane.” – Mark McElhatten, Rotterdam International Film Festival

Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.

We love Deborah Stratman. 1) She’s from Chicago. 2) She experiments with film and other forms of media/technology. The following is a brilliant concept:  (more…)

1947-’49, 16mm, 3 minutes

For more, check out a previous Dinca post titled Harry Smith Artwork and Animations.

Everything is Terrible: The Movie will play at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre starting 9 Oct 2009.

Synopsis: The online video visionaries behind EverythingIsTerrible.com proudly PRESENT EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE: THE MOVIE! The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging through thrift establishments and video caverns in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and glued back together into surreal resurrections. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE: THE MOVIE remixes your favorite videos with hilarious never-before-seen clips to create an audiovisual experience you’ll never forget! Complete with exclusive shorts, special guests, and a full-length favorite from the EIT archives.

Below are five of my favorite Everything is Terrible shorts: Beanie Baby Beanie Baby, Flirting with Magic, The Stinger, News Guys on the Next Block, and Los Angeles.

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“I believe in spiritual technology.” — Stephen Beck

Have you been weaved? What are you waiting for?

Stephen Beck on his video weavings (1973-1976):

My work is to make something beautiful with technology. I believe in spiritual technology. Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, (more…)

Three films by Negativland including Gimme the Mermaid, The Greatest Taste Around, and Mashin’ of the Christ.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F1ShRxGQE

by Alicia Nogueira (1985)

’80s video art featuring abstractions between goldfish, high heels, arm wrestling, and the female figure.

A film by Matt McCormick

16mm/Digital video – 16 minutes – 2001 (excerpt from the film)

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal is an award winning experimental documentary form Portland-based filmmaker and artist Matt McCormick.  The film won first place at the Black Maria Film Festival, best short film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and won the grand prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival.  Also of note, the film screened at Sundance, South by Southwest, The Seattle International Film Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.  RIYL the documentary film of Chris Marker.

Miranda July narrates in this abstract documentary.

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On the Various Nature of Things (1995)

Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker whose work plies the territory between experimental and documentary genres. Her films and frequent work in other media, including photography, sound, drawing and sculpture often explore the history, uses, mythologies and control of highly varied landscapes: from Muslim Xinjiang China, to rural Iceland, to gated suburban California. She recently completed a series of works that collectively address concepts of the paranormal in the information age and is presently working on a new film about the milieu of elevated threat, patriotism, wilderness and the possibility of transcendence.

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As part of an ongoing process the optimize the Dinca site, we introduce the Dinca Experimental Film Portal.  The concept is simple: Every Dinca post that contains a video will be added to the film portal page and categorized appropriately.  This will keep things organized and save you time from searching through a long chain of posts.  Please feel free to submit special requests for short films you wish to see and please provide feedback on our site design. Thxxx!

ENTER THE DINCA FILM PORTAL.

Here is a film I made about a year ago as part of a class excercise.

SYNOPSIS: Experiments with denim, logo identities, fashion, lost dreams, and young, gay angst. Found footage.

(2008, ANDREW ROSINSKI, US, fnd 16mm, 1 min)

Video art from the early ’80s – an ocean of technicolored bits + shapes.  Plenty of rainbow gradients and tracer images.  A fun ride.

Video by G.G. Aries
Edited by: G.G. Aries & Mark Allen
Music by: Larry Gibbs from California Images

Oh my gosh, we have triple pay on this.

This video is brilliant and is chocked full of perverse artifice.

Bryan Boyce, a San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker, employs astute image/audio juxtapositions by combining 2000 campaign footage of Al Gore and George W. Bush with found audio from late-night TV infomercials.  Artificial animated mouths are superimposed (more…)

Brooklyn-based Cory Arcangel is a self-described personal computer lover and an internet lover. Best know for his video cartridge hackings, Cory’s work has shown at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Space1026, Philadelphia; the Migros Museum, Zurich; Team Gallery, New York; and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris.  Below are three more Cory Arcangel videos:

Super Mario Movie Part II
Adult Contemporary | T Pain
Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 11 – II

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Stuffing by Animal Charm

Nothing is safe from Animal Charm: They’ll eat garbage and cough up an avant garde gem.

Animal Charm is the found footage collaborative of Rich Bott and Jim Fetterly.  Gleaning outdated footage from VHS and Beta Max tapes that’d you find at a garage sale or your local Goodwill, Bott and Fetterly deconstruct then construct absurd, experimental videos that they piece together with heavy visual looping, manipulative editing, and sometimes abrasive audio looping.  Bott and Fetterly really get off by subverting the original intentions of their source material — corporate videos, consumer instructional videos, Hollywood movies, jewelry videos, and so forth, have all been used and abused by Animal Charm.  Nothing is safe.

Animal Charm employs a special combination of jump cuts paired with bizarre image/audio loops, which results in an arousal of emotional responses — hypnotic, psychedelic, surreal — some viewers that are sheltered from avant-garde cinema may become annoyed, but it’s the unpredictable humor and feverish montages that make the films of Animal Charm a must see for fans of the avant-garde cinema.

Below are seven more films from Animal Charm, including (more…)

A film by Storm De Hirsch, 1965, 8 mins, 8mm

Filmmakers never have a valid excuse not to make films — you don’t even need a camera to make a film — nor a computer.  Storm De Hirsch, a film avant-gardener of the ’60s, didn’t have a camera — she definitely didn’t have a computer — all she had was old, unused film stock and a few rolls of 16mm sound tape.  Throwing aside the animation conventions of the ’60s (usually frame-by-frame photography of drawings on paper or transparencies), De Hirsch successfully created a trilogy of films by painting directly on old film stock, cutting, and etching the (more…)