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  • Matt McCormick and The Shins


    Matt McCormick – The Past and Pending (2003, 34MB, 5:17)


    Matt McCormick – Australia (2007, 29MB, 3:57)

    Matt McCormick is one of those heroes I never knew I had.

    He makes insanely tight music videos and local commercials
    around the Portland area, in addition to being a friend to hipster
    bands and a musician himself.
    These are two award-winning videos for the band The Shins,
    who I’ve posted from before, though I have no affiliation or
    particular love for them.
    They just end up extra special on film, especially through
    McCormick’s visions of A-Team remakes and leisurely photo drives.

    6 min
  • David Olmos//José M. Sánchez-Verdú – Paisajes del placer y de la culpa


    Paisajes del placer y de la culpa #1 (2008, 119MB, 7:49 min)


    Paisajes del placer y de la culpa #2 (2008, 74MB, 4:52 min)

    José M. Sánchez-Verdú is a Spanish composer who creates richly textured and

    sensuous music in an uncompromisingly contemporary idiom.
    His richness is no frippery but properly fought for and won.
    Here is a short movie, in two parts, made by David Olmos, about whom I can find
    no information whatsoever, which blends a fictional narrative with footage of
    an orchestral performance of one of Sánchez-Verdú’s works
    Paisajes del placer y de la culpa – Landscapes
    of Pleasure and Guilt.
    The film is undoubtedly skillfully made but I remain slightly agnostic
    about its premise or even necessity; however no such doubts about some
    of the most extraordinary music of recent years.
    I grabbed the film from YouTube and as you can see the image quality isn’t great
    although in some ways the graininess appeals and seems apposite to the subject.

    8 min
  • David Askevold – Nova Scotia Fires


    Nova Scotia Fires (1969, 5MB, 3:00 min)

    I hadn’t, to my shame, heard of the late David Askevold until the Camden Arts Centre

    put on a beautifully put together and gripping retrospective last year.
    Here’s one of the pieces on show then. It’s not particularly great quality plus
    it’s in a tiny window but it does conjure (perhaps an appropriately Askevoldian
    choice of word) something of the impact -witty, smart and otherwordly – of his work.

    * and there’s a good review of that here.

    3 min
  • More from Martin Rychlicki


    TyryTyry (2012, 133MB, 2:06 min)

    Nice bit of work from Polish film maker and musician Martin Rychlicki, who also

    trades as DJ Gacmaster & GacPax,
    for a track by DJ Investor.
    We’ve featured Rychlicki’s rather winning work here before and no doubt will again.

    3 min
  • Bonnie Prince Billy Again


    Agnes (2004, 7.3MB, 3:12 min)


    Horses (2004, 16.7MB, 4:37 min)

    Agnes video by David Shrigley

    & Horses by Braden King,
    both of them classy bits of work.
    There’s a PhD to be had for someone along the lines of
    ‘The Curatorial Role of the Recording Artist’.
    BPB/Will Oldham’s CD cover art never disappoints –
    the acme of hip good taste ( though not in a bland way, I think)
    – & the same is true of his videos.
    I particularly love the projection-within-the vid trope of Horses.
    Also -what songs!

    4 min

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