I just realized that one of the reasons short video art has never gained traction, besides it being silly and pretentious, is that it wanted for a medium. Well now, with the web, it has one. So here is a work of fine art in short video (10MB). It is still silly and pretentious, but now you can get it easily.
But seriously, I kinda like it, and I think it is a grave pity that film and video are almost completely unexplored mediums once you look outside story telling.
Here is another, very unpretentiously called "Earth at the end of time"(25MB)
You're too kind, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteTake a random person on the street, he has probably seen hundreds of movies. But the odds are he has not seen one art video.
But, Eolake, you did write: "... it is a grave pity that film and video are almost completely unexplored mediums once you look outside story telling."
ReplyDeleteAs Adam the Pun-Slinger points out, the medium is one of the most explored.
Now, it may not be well known to the mainstream audience but that's a different matter. And, in fact, depending on how you define storytelling this may not even be true. For there have been many very popular non-descriptive music videos.
In any case I applaud you for your new contributions to the field.
As soon as the power in Lebanon returns to normal (i.e. 12 hours a day or more), I'll gladly download with my 56K (31 effective) and watch anything you recommend, Eolake.
ReplyDeleteAnything but the kitchen sink! ;-)
Yeah, I know : this one went straight down the drain...
(Ya, I should sink zo, nicht wahr?)
Managed to download the sink movie. Okay, water coming down in a metal sink is pretty and artistic (I had already noticed before), but I wonder whether it was really worth an hour plus of download time, when I can reach my kitchen in 30 seconds tops... ;-)
ReplyDeleteEarth at the end of time is a little harder to watch in one's own home (unless somebody is suicidal enough to take apart my new Ravensburger globe-puzzle), so I'm going for it now. Curiosity is the best way to push my buttons (say, that could be the title of a funny art movie, Eolake!). I almost succeeded yesterday after nearly three hours of patience, but around 85% of it, my web connection stopped transmitting. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
"Velkom too Lebanone!" ):-P
At last, success is mine!
ReplyDeleteWow, I never would've guessed that at the end of Time, the Earth would stop spinnig. And who would've thought this was the actual space-time shape of our planet's orbit?