'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Circuit bent gain controller run into a CRT TV
"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.
There is nothing left to do but complain.
As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.
Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.
Beneath towering Brutalist architecture, a man is driven to do what must be done.
Performance video about a holiday romance at St Ives, Cornwall.
Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid presents a fractured historical narrative without any real protagonist, one in which the titular character goes mostly unseen - Billy the Kid as the always-off-screen assailant, as a ghost’s laugh, as a shadow on the road.
As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.
Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
Slowed, stowed, achingly retold.
Pounding backbeats beaten by [(Don't Get)] warm[welcomes]th.
Centrist revelations abound among repetitions & revisitings.
Something I know or something I was told? When something scalding translates something to behold.
Still it's really tall. Still it's really floundering/falling/fading.
Strings together what's strung together (please use yr tether).