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)
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You're too kind, I'm sure.
Take 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."
As 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.
Anything 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... ;-)
Earth 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!
Wow, 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?
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