John Smith
John Smith is an award winning avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator’s conditioned assumptions of the medium. he effortlessly mixes innovative use of moving image, often playing with the way that the soundtrack and images combine. His work is very strong conceptually, and contains a lot of passion. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999).
United Kingdom 1987 24 Min Color English
“In The Black Tower we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of the central protagonist is indicated only by a narrative voice-over which takes us from unease to breakdown to mysterious death, the images, meticulously controlled and articulated, deliver a series of colour coded puzzles, jokes and puns which pull the viewer into a mind-teasing engagement. Smith’s assurance and skill as a filmmaker undercuts the notion of the avant-garde as dry, unprofessional and dull and in The Black Tower we have an example of a film which plays with the emotions as well as the language of film.” — Nik Houghton, Independent Media.
Bill Viola
He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For 40 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola’s video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound—employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. - http://www.billviola.com/biograph.htm
Candas Sisman
Involved with spur of the moment event, Sisman incorporates abstract narrative language, his works contain a naivety and simplicity in contradiction with the commotion and ideology of life in general. These ‘events’ that emerge are tossed into the open by passing them through an emotional and perceptual filter of data and situations in the external world without preponderance. His works are a momentary / flow related audiovisual process
People start recognizing they are nothing when depth of their awareness enhances.’’ Its the nothingness within the most intricate details that allow for his complex simplicity. - http://vimeo.com/csisman
Retory
visuals : candas sisman - http://csismn.com/
sounds : mix - candas sisman
The emotional changing process of a concrete and mechanic structure gradually becoming organic and abstract.With together this process , retory is searching for how to explain that beauty of contrast emotion at the same time in audiovisual language .
Edicisum
directed by Candas Sisman - http://csismn.com
soundtrack by Isambard Khroustaliov
Patrick Bergeron
''Video artist and researcher, I modify and manipulate the image and its details. Exploring the concepts of speed, time and memories, my work is a mix of animation, experimental film and documentary''. Patrick Bergeron
LoopLoop from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.
LoopLoop, 5 minutes video loop.
Cars ... from Patrick Bergeron on Vimeo.
Cars ... global financial crisis, Cars ... global warming, Cars ... emerging countries, Who are driving those cars?
Seoul by night, the cars appear, disappear, merge, ...
creating an hypnotic and recurring movement.
I like here the use of looping a lot of films together along with the sound track of what he is recording.
Here is a video i found from a person called Mustardcuffins. What i like about this video is the way it makes you feel as if you are physically moving through the city, and you are viewing what the camera is viewing. Its a very physical experience and this is what i find very entertaining about this.
Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.
I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.
"Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams" - Ivan ChtcheglovThis film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation. - http://vimeo.com/7231932
Sergio Albiac
A visual artist using traditional media and generative computer code. Beauty, contradictions, search of meanings, the illusion of control in a world much governed by randomness and the elusive nature of emotions are recurring ideas in my work.
Content is Queen from Sergio Albiac on Vimeo.
"Content is Queen" is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy and the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, it is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and the utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that "paints" with action the portrait of the Queen.
On a technical level, this piece is a result of my research in breaking the limitations of the static image in a contemporary revision of the tradition of painting. The portraits are created using an innovative generative technique that I have developed called "generative video painting". It differs from previous attempts of video collage (like the techniques developed by David Hockney, mixing simultaneous points of view of an action) or video mosaic (where still images are represented by whole videos acting as pixels when properly reduced in size). My technique uses regions of video content to effectively represent or "paint" heterogeneous regions of the image. Both the partial content of the videos and the whole image are fully visible at the same time, widening the possibilities to deliver meaning in a contemporary aesthetic language. - http://vimeo.com/24065726
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