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Posts Tagged ‘found footage experimental film’
Negativland: Creative Anti-Corporate Activism
18 September, 2009 by Andrew RosinskiThree films by Negativland including Gimme the Mermaid, The Greatest Taste Around, and Mashin’ of the Christ.
ABOUT NEGATIVLAND
Since 1980, the 4 or 5 or 6 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arranges these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and “culture jamming” (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement. Over the years Negativland’s “illegal” collage and appropriation based audio and visual works have touched on many things – pranks, media hoaxes, advertising, media literacy, the evolving art of collage, the bizarre banality of suburban existence, creative anti-corporate activism in a media saturated multi-national world, file sharing, intellectual property issues, wacky surrealism, evolving notions of art and ownership and law in a digital age, and artistic and humorous observations of mass media and mass culture.
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Election Collectibles by Bryan Boyce
10 August, 2009 by Andrew RosinskiOh 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 on both Gore and Bush — seemingly the presidential canidates sermonize a sales pitch for an overpriced election 2000 collectible light-box (which clearly is made from construction paper, adhesive metallic stars, and other dirt-cheap arts/crafts materials).
The best part of this vid is that it enables absurd audio taken from the late-night cutlery basement infomercial (you know, the katana sword dudes) and, through effective application, it sheds light on an American truth about the QVC party, it’s a super big party, where they party for profit motive during election time. Remember the Obama commemorative plates that popped up shortly after his election win?
Election Collectibles sums up our epoch of millennial consumerism, which, of course, is rife with dirty, dirty infomercials.
Elections Collectibles is available for purchase on Peripheral Produce’s Greatest Hits compilation DVD, which also features work from Deborah Stratman, Miranda July, and Animal Charm. View more on the release here.
8 Films by Animal Charm
27 July, 2009 by Andrew RosinskiStuffing 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.
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2 Experimental Films | Found Footage
20 May, 2009 by Andrew RosinskiCowboys Were Not Nice People (1990)
Back in the day when Non-Linear Editing systems were just emerging, and before Final Cut Pro existed, Larry Kless was optically printing this film; reproducing, superimposing, and compositing found footage, frame by frame. Optical printing is a dying art , and as far as I know, Kless doesn’t have any others films on the internet.
Artist Statement: History paints a heroic picture of the so-called “cowboys” of history. Using the hero as a metaphor to questions his validity, this film explores the mythical frontiers of western culture and the romanticism of colonialism.
Charlie Rose (2008)
Charlie Rose screened at the 2008 Chicago Underground Film Festival; it was featured in New York Magazine; and it was featured on the email list-server, Very Short List, but no one truly understands what Very Short List is.
Synopsis: Microsoft or Yahoo? Google?
