jesse malmed – Projective Verse

Sports — Berrigan & Schiff, Goldsmith, Coyle, MacKenzie & Mausert-Mooney

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:37:29 +0000

Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff — Yo-Yo’s with Money

Harry Coyle

Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney — Inside Voices Hollow Objects
(with Ryan Sullivan, Nicholas Rummler, Courtney Nulicek, Michael Milano and Jesse Malmed)

Hey, Bud — van Elk, Baldessari, French

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:16:05 +0000

Ger van Elk — The Well-Shaven Cactus

John Baldessari — Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

Lindsey French — Drunken Texts from an Oak Tree

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)

Ones Directing: François Truffaut, John Smith, John Cale

Jesse Malmed — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:26:13 +0000

PEGGY AHWESH – 73 SUSPECT WORDS

Jesse Malmed — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:01:08 +0000

A favorite from an old friend and mentor, Peggy Ahwesh. Peggy’s work is always shifting, always a step ahead and a step to the side. Like so: small gauge punk films, yes feminist, yes Artaud, yes gesture; fidgeted found films; long-form PXL fictions; before-they-called-it-that Machinima; O, the body; O, the anthropologies of watching.

I love text films. Maybe someday I’ll make one about all the others. This is a great little piece that explains itself.

Legendary landscape filmmaker James Benning‘s recently built replicas of two historical American cabins (replete with libraries): Ted Kaczynski’s

and Henry David Thoreau’s.

A recent show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography called Crime Unseen, featured Richard Barnes‘ photographs of the Kaczynski’s cabin in custody and of the land it once inhabited. They’re simultaneously haunting and clinical.

How many of those 73 words–the gaps between Kaczynski’s (eventually violent) articulation of his ideas of a technological society gone awry and the allowed lexicon of said society–could be used as tags for these images, these replicas? How many of Thoreau’s words would earn squiggly red feet?

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?