Chance Encounters With Oxygen

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

To fly a – way from/out of death, don’t hire a taxidermist but take a ride in this taxidrome! Series of 41 Moving Images - this analogy is possible being conservation at its core rescuing what really matters in the world, like nature, habitats, science and art. It is vital. Yet in a continuously changing environment, the flipside of conservation becomes and here it is where the vital feature of conservation becomes its lifelike trait, a fictive life, a fake life. The embalming process consists of 1) imparting a balmy essence to the dead body, as in the ancient world, 2) by filling its blood vessels with formaldehyde to prevent putrification, as in the modern world, although recently with more regard towards more natural treatments, as for instance in bio-art. To embalm also means to “preserve from oblivion”, and “to cause to remain unchanged”, “to prevent the development of something”.

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

Anatomy of a moth

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work in the tradition of the absolute animation film of the 1930s, which requires prismatic glasses to achieve the maximum result.

Fantaisie érotique

10 minute experimental film. Warning: this video involves frequent strobing.

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

3 minute experimental film.

A four-dimensional short anime will start at the very beginning of Shibuya Crossing, that is, 10,000 years in the past. The anime is part of a collaborative project helmed by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya. It features a hybrid of animation and live-action. The short was screened on Shibuya's Crossing screens and a YouTube-friendly version was posted as well. (Source: ANN)

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

1 minute experimental film.

Created entirely from YouTube videos and edited in Windows Movie Maker, Lopatin recomposes outmoded video graphic landscapes via repetition and abuse.

Lights flicker & fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

Doomed Nation Video 'zine hailed from Chicago, and showcased the artistic talents of Tom Denney. The interview segments are of SOURVEIN and a couple of live clips, music videos by Denney of BURIED AT SEA, MEATJACK, CROWBAR, CONVERGE, & CUMDUMPSTER.