Showing posts with label Recent Recycled Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recent Recycled Cinema. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Total Recut Contest
The following is a release from the holy grail of remix sites:
TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: 'What is Remix Culture?' You can you use any footage you can find, including Public Domain and Creative Commons work, but the finished video cannot be longer than 3 minutes or shorter than 30 seconds long. The prizes include a Laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, Books, DVDs and CDs. We have an amazing lineup of judges for the contest including Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica and Mark Hosler. You can find out more information at: http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php. Entries will be accepted from the 1st of May until the 2nd June 2008 when public voting will begin. The best 10 videos at the end of the 2 week voting period will be put forward into the final, where they will be voted on by the judging panel. The winners will be announced around the 1st of July. So get busy making those videos!
Here's a link to the YouTube promotional video for the contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdgDTS3diGk
Thanks again for your support and participation in this and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Recycled Cinema for Cultural Borrowings Conference
Chevy Tahoe Commercial 1
Chevy Tahoe Commercial 2
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Kodak Commercial
In the case of extra-time:
Shining:
Communist Manifestoon
Chevy Tahoe Commercial 2
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Kodak Commercial
In the case of extra-time:
Shining:
Communist Manifestoon
Friday, February 15, 2008
Political Mashup Playlists and Caped Masked and Armed
I've written previously on the political remixes of Caped Masked and Armed, best known here for the "Kodak Moments" remix below.
After looking at Jonathan McIntosh's site (the artist behind this video), I found his playlist for the recent DIY conference at USC. It was a wonderful experience going through this list because of some of our own identical formulations about remix culture. He is also a supporter of the idea that Brokeback mashups can be read as a "queering" of texts--most often films that deal with homosocial spaces. He did however apparently coin a phrase that beautifully illustrates a tendency in the recycled cinema / remix video community -- Identity Correction. This idea as I understand it relates the frequent remixing of speeches by public figures to create a coalescence between what they say and what they do. You can browse this list by clicking here.
In my research for an upcoming conference in Nottingham called "Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation" I have come to find the development of a consensus in terms and critical approaches to these works from a host of disparate sources. I wonder if this is simply because writing on this subject is so sparse and that it has led to a great deal of sharing or whether this has developed because the process is not actually new but part of an age old "found" aesthetic in art.
After looking at Jonathan McIntosh's site (the artist behind this video), I found his playlist for the recent DIY conference at USC. It was a wonderful experience going through this list because of some of our own identical formulations about remix culture. He is also a supporter of the idea that Brokeback mashups can be read as a "queering" of texts--most often films that deal with homosocial spaces. He did however apparently coin a phrase that beautifully illustrates a tendency in the recycled cinema / remix video community -- Identity Correction. This idea as I understand it relates the frequent remixing of speeches by public figures to create a coalescence between what they say and what they do. You can browse this list by clicking here.
In my research for an upcoming conference in Nottingham called "Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation" I have come to find the development of a consensus in terms and critical approaches to these works from a host of disparate sources. I wonder if this is simply because writing on this subject is so sparse and that it has led to a great deal of sharing or whether this has developed because the process is not actually new but part of an age old "found" aesthetic in art.
Friday, December 7, 2007
The Films of Scott McElroy
A nice example of avant-garde found-footage practices seeping onto the net.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Great New Work
I've recently been corresponding with several recycled cinema filmmakers and have found two great films worth mentioning.
"Cosas de Mujeres" by Javier Plano takes after many great avant-garde structuralist films in the spirit of Hollis Frampton or Michael Snow. The film has a leitmotif for each character, except instead of a musical theme, they are given a single tone. Javier explains it like this:
i can say that it was made following a path in the beggining: A, B, C, D (Antonioni, Bresson, Cocteau and Dreyer), and i try to make a tone for each one of the women that correspond with that musical note (A -> la , B -> si , C -> do , D -> re).
Through editing, a melody appears in the presentation of each character, giving unity to this examination of fighting women. A and C confronting D, with a bystander, B. Thanks Javier. This is truly amazing work.
ikat381's film "my heart will take a kayak" is a satirical mashup of "Titanic", celebrity journalism and Hurricane Katrina. I feel artistically akin to ikat381, especially since we've both been criticized online for mixing satire and parody with serious subjects. ikat381's mash-up is reality based, and works by forming connections between pop culture ("Titanic" and Celine Dion's famous song for the film) with real life tragedy (Hurricane Katrina) and the strange intersection they have on Larry King Live. It's also hilarious...
I recently took off a post I made which irreverently looked at some of the critics of my satirical mashup, "Ocean's 9/11" because it descended into petty name calling on my part. I'm working on new (less controversial) projects right now, one surrounding the great character actor Harry J. Lennix and his life playing an Uncle Tom, and the other regarding Capitalist critiques and Marxist undertones in horror films. Ocean's 9/11 was in the LA Times last week. The link is here.
"Cosas de Mujeres" by Javier Plano takes after many great avant-garde structuralist films in the spirit of Hollis Frampton or Michael Snow. The film has a leitmotif for each character, except instead of a musical theme, they are given a single tone. Javier explains it like this:
i can say that it was made following a path in the beggining: A, B, C, D (Antonioni, Bresson, Cocteau and Dreyer), and i try to make a tone for each one of the women that correspond with that musical note (A -> la , B -> si , C -> do , D -> re).
Through editing, a melody appears in the presentation of each character, giving unity to this examination of fighting women. A and C confronting D, with a bystander, B. Thanks Javier. This is truly amazing work.
ikat381's film "my heart will take a kayak" is a satirical mashup of "Titanic", celebrity journalism and Hurricane Katrina. I feel artistically akin to ikat381, especially since we've both been criticized online for mixing satire and parody with serious subjects. ikat381's mash-up is reality based, and works by forming connections between pop culture ("Titanic" and Celine Dion's famous song for the film) with real life tragedy (Hurricane Katrina) and the strange intersection they have on Larry King Live. It's also hilarious...
I recently took off a post I made which irreverently looked at some of the critics of my satirical mashup, "Ocean's 9/11" because it descended into petty name calling on my part. I'm working on new (less controversial) projects right now, one surrounding the great character actor Harry J. Lennix and his life playing an Uncle Tom, and the other regarding Capitalist critiques and Marxist undertones in horror films. Ocean's 9/11 was in the LA Times last week. The link is here.
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