James Sumner directs and animates the entire Dirty Projectors’ The Getty Address.
Social & External
Don Henley
Sacagawa Petrillo
The Gaia Figure
Pounding backbeats beaten by [(Don't Get)] warm[welcomes]th.
(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.
Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.
Don't ask me why, but I feel we're about to cry trying.
This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.
Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Your raging romp results only in rescinded regret @ the hands of radder cadets.
A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the curtains of a small, dimly lit room.
A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple.
Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous mélange.
An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories.
Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.
Playful and rythmic self-portrait shot on Super 8mm and 16mm. Colored directly on the super 8mm.
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.
Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in July of 2007. With a 35mm soundtrack image, I made a hand-drawn soundtrack on the 16mm film strip. The sounds were made either by directly contact printing the 35mm sound tracks or collaging the scratch images. According to pattern of sound on the 20% blank of 16mm film strip (normally used as space for optical recording), I edited whole image and made structure of film. Hence the margin is a where image is sound, and vice versa. Later, I studied the sound patterns which varied according to the kinds of images used or the concentration of the image, and made various attempts at rearranging the structure of the sound with the image.