experimental film – Projective Verse

Guy Sherwin, Peter Campus & The Marx Brothers

Jesse Malmed — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:30:54 +0000

Guy Sherwin — Man with Mirror (1976/2011)

Peter Campus — Three Transitions (1973)

The Marx Brothers — Duck Soup (1933, excerpt)

Dick Higgins, Steina Vasulka, Vito Acconci, Cap’n Jazz

Jesse Malmed — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:23 +0000

:-$ The money where the mouth is, the mouth moves currently and currentially. Brakhage was high school besties with Tenney was married to Carolee and Dick and Alison, well, you know, sometimes we forget when we’re thinking about history and art history maybe in particular (using small a and small h) that the x-ists and the y-ists (and 4-ists and even the *est-ists), well, a lot more of them knew each other than we think. Histories are not just discrete ideologies bumping up and rubble-bubbing against each other and then one wins and the other fades away. All those thousand terraces overlapping and understanding. I don’t need a reason.

Dick Higgins – Invocation of Canyons and Boulders for Stan Brakhage

Steina Vasulka – Let It Be

Vito Acconci – Open Book

Cap’n Jazz – Yes, I Am Talking to You

Alexander Stewart, Michael Bell-Smith, Dave Hickey, Morley Safer

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:18:15 +0000

Oh well O L LOL oh. I was reading Frivolity and Unction by Dave Hickey. Here is a pdf so you can too.

Alexander Stewart – Pollock!

Michael Bell-Smith – Art Tape: Live With / Think About

Morley then:

Morley now:

Takashi Ito – Spacy

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:26:47 +0000

Deeply heady frame-bend brain-blends from the great Takashi Ito.

Ben Russell – Black and White Trypps Number Three | Lightning Bolt

Jesse Malmed — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:02:16 +0000

TRYPPI BONGKNOCKING

Sebastian Schmieg – Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 / Oliver Laric – 787 Cliparts

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:09:17 +0000

Maybe you’ve already seen these? If not, maybe you should see them already.

Sebastian Schmieg – Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1

Oliver Laric – 787 Cliparts

JODIE MACK – UNSUBSCRIBE (1-4)

Jesse Malmed — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:43:32 +0000

Jodie Mack has some great initials. Jon Myers, James/Jahmal Mitchell, even Maggie Jones too. She’s also a wonderful filmmaker. She came through Portland and did a show at Grand Detour a few months back. Now that I live in Chicago, her ghost is all over town (she’s since moved to New Hampshire to teach at Dartmouth). She’s an experimental animator, which is to say she engages the single frame (I think that’s most reductive and open way to define animation) and she does so using a variety of unconventional techniques and toward unconventional ends (I think that’s a pretty reductive and open way to define experimental). What makes her work striking, in part, is her use of paper and film as her materials. Even watching them on vimeo, you’ll be able to get some sense of the materiality and physicality of the work. It’s also enormously clever without losing its emotional core. I very barely know Jodie, but her films seem heavily imbued by her personality, a certain intelligence and rigor that isn’t afraid of levity. More or less my favorite combination.

Here are the four films that comprise her Unsubscribe series. The whole thing is wonderful (and maybe there’ll be more coming soon? [JM- how are your google alerts? -JM]), but if you feel like pretending you have a time crunch beyond the universe expanding, my personal favorites are 1 for the mesmer and 4 for the ear/eye/buzz. Junk Mail has never looked so good, right, Jared Moran?