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  • Back By Popular Demand – The Lesbian Rangers


    The Lesbian Rangers (2005, 18 MB, 1:41 min.)


    Welcome to Reorientation 2005 (2005, 34.8 MB, 2:17 min.)


    Victory at The Rock (2005, 72.4 MB, 4:45 min.)

    Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan are Winnipeg-based collaborators whose

    internationally acclaimed work addresses feminist, lesbian, and social concerns
    with tremendous wit. “The Lesbian Rangers” were founded in 1997, to help people
    learn about fascinating and fragile lesbian ecosystem. Rangers Dempsey and Millan
    led the first expedition to Banff National Park, and continue to offer lesbian leadership today.
    (thanks jillian)

    2 min
  • 1905 at 2 a.m. in the subway


    2 a.m. in the subway (1905, 8 MB, 56 sec.)

    A subway platform, a policeman and a conductor, a well-dressed man

    with a cigar and two women dressed in long skirts and jackets.
    One of the women causes a sensation by raising her skirt and
    revealing her stocking. Artificial legs are displayed out the subway car window.
    Hilarious. From The Open Video Project.

    0 min
  • Will Goss – Sonnet by William Shakespeare


    Sonnet by William Shakespeare (2011, 64 MB, 2:31 min)

    “Here is a video I made a few months ago.

    It’s a recitation of Shakespeare’s #135th sonnet.
    In the background are Dexter Dalwood’s paintings,
    which are collaged from other famous paintings.
    The piece engages ideas of appropriation and identity.”
    A beauty by Will Goss.

    3 min
  • Aī-Hz – My Miwoo


    My Miwoo [Tai Chi Weekend Control] (2007, 24.6MB, 50 secs)

    Aī-Hz, real name Michael Renassia,

    is a French visual performer living and working in Tokyo.
    His site contains possibly my favourite biographical nugget ever:

    ‘He is using compositing software in a diverted way, and real-time mixing
    instruments with the aim to create a noisy/pop universe…’

    Now, who could possibly object to that?
    This piece is rather lovely – the thing that totally makes it for me
    is the epiphanic moment at the end when the music/animation stops &
    the person appears ..there’s a haunting sense of time suspended..
    So, for me, 10/10 for visuals.
    I am pretty bored ,though, with the by-the-yard avant-dance music
    that accompanies so much work of this kind..it’s not bad
    or anything, just pedestrian…

    1 min
  • Lior Shvil – In Whatever Time


    In Whatever Time (2010, 290MB, 15 min.)

    “…Occupying a space somewhere between storytelling and spectacle, TV shows and

    advertisements, the video and sculpture installations of such invented personas as
    Cherry Bomb Fluffy White and Charley OnOff address the fragmented
    representations of politics and gender, autobiography and history in contemporary
    society. Embracing the roles of director, actor, narrator, editor, and set designer,
    his experiments in epic theatrical production explore the comic territory of the jester
    as he flirts with cultural stereotypes and satirizes political ideologies.”
    Lior Shvil.

    0 min
  • Alan Sondheim – Last Wine


    Last Wine (2013, 96MB, 2:50 min)

    Anyone who has followed DVblog for any time at all will know how much we

    admire & value the work of Alan Sondheim.
    He commands a huge range of technique and tone in both his writing and moving
    image work. At one point of his compass there is the fiercely cerebral; at
    another a rich humour & at yet another a sense of fellow feeling with, a
    striving to understand some of our most puzzling and yet everyday feelings
    and states of mind.
    Things we’ve all encountered in relationships with family, friends and strangers.
    This is a particularly moving piece, the more so because of its uncertainty of tone
    – its enactment of the sad awkwardnesses of human interaction.

    0 min
  • Reynald Drouhin – 2 movies


    E.mor (1999, 13MB, 2 min.)


    Petit d’Homme (2001, 42MB, 2 min.)

    Reynald Drouhin:

    E.Mor –

    Improvisation dans le noir // Improvisation in the dark
    Musique/Music: Meredith Monk, ‘Engine Steps’

    Petit d’Homme –

    Etude du comportement humain en milieu naturel, avec Lloÿs Drouhin // A study in human beahaviour in a natural setting, with Lloÿs Drouhin

    0 min
  • 3 from Alan Sondheim


    me (2008, 12MB, 1:06 min loop)


    slbarrier (2008, 33.1 MB, 4:32 min.)


    elo1 (2008, 46.3 MB, 5:26 min.)

    Three from 2008. As always, utterly watchable and quite unparallelled.

    PS I’m going to post beneath a text piece by Sondheim from around the
    time the movies were made, not because it has any direct
    relevance to them (though of course it has relevance)
    but because it’s great & a further demonstration, if such were required,
    of his range of technique and vision…

    she can MOVE FRUIT FROM ONE KIND OF TREE TO ANOTHER

    she can MAKE OTHERS FALL ASLEEP OR WAKE AT WILL
    she can MAKE FIRE BLAZE FROM WEAPONS
    she can FLY THROUGH AIR
    she can SEE THROUGH WALLS
    she can TRANSFORM A CAVE INTO A PALACE AND SEAL THE EXITS
    she can REMOVE THE TUSKS AND TRUNK FROM AN ELEPHANT AND RESTORE THEM
    she can MAKE A KING SPEECHLESS AND RESTORE HIS SPEECH
    she can GENERATE DEMONS AND COMPLETE DEMONS
    she can END DROUGHT AND HEAL ILLNESS
    she can SUBDUE LIONS AND TIGERS AND BRING THEM TO FAITH
    she can REMOVE ARMS AND LEGS FROM SOLDIERS AND RESTORE THEM
    she knows ALL LANGUAGES AND ALL DOCTRINES
    she can EAT ENDLESSLY AND DRY UP WELL SPRINGS AND RESTORE THEM
    she can CUT OFF HER HEAD AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR AND RESTORE IT
    she can MOVE A BUFFALO AND HER CALF BACK TO THEIR HOME
    she is SAFE FROM ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BLOWS WITH CUDGEL AND ARROW
    she can TURN AROUND ARROWS IN FULL FLIGHT
    she can TURN INTO AN OLD WOMAN AND BACK AGAIN
    she can SEE THINGS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
    she knows ALL FUTURE AND ALL PAST EVENTS
    she meditates FOR DAYS ON END WITHOUT SLEEP OR DRINK OR FOOD
    she can HOLD SEVEN HUNDRED UMBRELLAS ABOVE HER WITHOUT TOUCHING THEM
    she can RAISE THE DEAD AND RESTORE THEM TO DEATH
    she can BE IN SEVERAL PLACES AT ONCE
    she can TRAVEL INSTANTANEOUSLY FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
    she can MAKE SMALL THINGS ENORMOUS AND ENORMOUS THINGS SMALL
    she can MAKE DEVOTIONAL IMAGES CRUMBLE AND RESTORE THEM
    she can CARRY A TEMPLE ON HER BACK
    she can CLIMB ENDLESS STAIRS AND OTHERS CANNOT FOLLOW HER
    she fits THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INTO A TINY CORNER OF A CAVE OR HOUSE
    she disappears AND APPEARS AT WILL
    she conquers DEATH
    she eats CORPSES URINE EXCREMENT SEMEN MENSTRUAL BLOOD
    her slightest MOVEMENT TRANSFORMS WORLDS
    her dance CREATES AND ANNIHILATES WORLD
    she loosens BOUND ANIMALS AND RELEASES THEM
    she can WALK ON WATER AND WALK THROUGH FLAMES
    she can CAUSE THE EARTH TO QUAKE AND FLOWERS TO FALL LIKE RAIN
    she can DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES
    she can WALK THROUGH WALLS AND CLIFFS
    she can SEAL CAVES AND CREATE GREAT HALLS WITHIN THEM
    she can MAKE HERSELF INVISIBLE AND MAKE HERSELF VISIBLE AGAIN
    she can CREATE OVERWHELMING TEMPESTS
    she can SUBDUE SNAKES AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS
    she can SING PERFECT SONGS OF HER OWN DEVISING
    she can ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERINGS OF THE ELDERLY
    she can ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERINGS OF THE POOR
    she can SCORCH CLOTHES AND RESTORE THEM
    she can READ MINDS CLOSE BY AND AT A DISTANCE
    she can EAT ANY SORT OF IMPURITIES
    she can LAUGH AN EIGHT FOLD LAUGHTER
    she can DRAW STELES AND JEWELS FROM THE GROUND
    she can ERECT VAST PALACES AT AN INSTANT
    she extracts POISON FROM WATER AND WALKS THROUGH BLAZING FLAMES
    she can CHOOSE THE DATE AND TIME OF HER DEATH
    she can MAKE DRUMS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO SOUND BY THEMSELVES
    her steps MEASURE GREAT OR TINY DISTANCES AT HER WILL
    her gaze CAN SHATTER AND RESTORE ANYTHING
    she can TRANSFORM HERSELF INTO A SKELETON AND A RAINBOW BODY
    her gaze CAN OPEN CAVES IN SOLID ROCK AND SEAL THEM AGAIN
    she remembers HER PAST AND FUTURE BIRTHS
    she can TARRY WITH CONSORTS WITH OR WITHOUT ELABORATION
    she can SELF ILLUMINATE
    she can WALK AIMLESSLY DAY AND NIGHT
    she can SPREAD THE SCENT OF PERFUMES IN EVERY DIRECTION
    she can SIT LIE OR WALK IN MID AIR
    she can WEAR APRONS OF BONES
    she is FLEET FOOTED
    she changes THE COLOR OF HER BODY AT WILL

    2 min
  • Lior Shvil – The Kosher Butcher


    The Kosher Butcher (2010, 84MB, 8:56 min.)

    “.. Israeli provocateur Lior Shvil presented “The Kosher Butcher,” a darkly humorous commentary on Mideast politics in which he portrays a meatpacking Sweeney Todd.”

    0 min
  • Edward Picot – Job’s Comforters


    Job’s Comforters (2013, 3MB, 7:00 min)

    Those who associate Edward Picot solely with his marvellous Dr Hairy series,

    wickedly funny and pointed satire in the kind of lo-fi/hand made tradition
    that comes down from Postgate and Firmin might be quite taken
    aback by this. You have to watch the whole thing. Until shortly before the
    end you seem to be simply watching a poetic & minimal retelling of a bible
    story, then the whole thing suddenly lurches several gears into the kind of
    territory that one associates more with Tarr and Kasznahorkai at their most
    bleak and disturbing (and somehow their most bracing and exhilarating too).
    It’s a punch to the solar plexus of a piece and simply magnificent.
    I don’t know where its bleakness comes from or takes us but what it does
    en route burns into you.

    0 min

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