Major Lazer: Hold the Line by Ferry Gouw

07.06.10
Major Lazer: Hold the Line, directed by Ferry Gouw Now I wouldn’t normally sing the praises of Major Lazer the British music duo and their generally rather saucy videos, but Major Lazer the cartoon monster hunter definitely gets my vote. His back story: a Jamaican commando injured in the secret Zombie War of 1984, rebuilt with a lazer in place of his right arm by the ...
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Monty Python’s Silly Olympics

24.05.10
Silly Olympics, Monty Python As there’s been much hoo-ha recently about the rather bizarre London 2010 mascots, fashioned from the steel used to make the Olympic stadium(?!?!), we bring you an equally absurd film from Monty Python. This sketch comes from 1972, a time long ago when Britain had a steel production industry and no one imagined the Olympics would be staged in London. Here’s the Python ...
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Finisterrae for Sonar 2010

17.05.10
Finisterrae for Sonar 2010 The commissioned artwork for this year’s Sonar festival is Finisterrae (end of the world), an episodic film of two ghosts journeying from limbo via the Way of Saint James to the land of the living. This journey is an apt celebration of the expansion of this year’s music and multimedia art festival, which is being held simultaneously in its traditional location of ...
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Kid606: Mr Wobbles Nightmare by Joel Trussell

26.04.10
Kid606: Mr Wobble's Nightmare by Joel Trussell Something nice and psychedelic for a Monday morning. Joel Trussell accompanies the delightful beats of eclectic electronic artist Kid606, with a nightmarish vision of drugged-up fruit turning carnivore at an all-night rave. I particularly like the way the fruit has been animated so that whilst the characters expressions are beautifully drawn, the fruits wobble about on strings like ...
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Night Mayor by Guy Maddin

14.04.10
Night Mayor, Directed by Guy Maddin, photo credit: Rebecca Sandulak, © 2009 National Film Board of Canada This mid-week movie comes courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, who have recently posted up Guy Maddin’s Night Mayor in its entirety. In this short, Guy Maddin presents the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who harnesses the power of the Aurora Borealis in 1939 Winnipeg. Ademi uses ...
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Birds by Pleix

05.04.10
Birds, Plexi Well they’re not exactly Easter chicks, but these flying hounds are certainly a cheery sight. The film was made by Pleix who are a Paris-based collective of artists, musicians and graphic designers, the audio comes courtesy of French electronic music maestro Vitalic.  And if you were wondering how they launched these pups into space, then check out Pleix’s blog.
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Making of OffOn by Scott Bartlett

29.03.10
OffOn by Scott Bartlett Scott Bartlett made this documentary in 1980 of a recreation of OffOn that he created with a class at UCLA to use as a teaching tool. It is a wonderful insight into how the methods we take for granted today, were constructed with low-fi methods, along with snippets of what led him down the experimental video path. OffOn is a film by ...
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