A video for Nashville-based electronica artist Makeup And Vanity Set (Michael Pusti) by Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins in which a tech enthusiast attempts to scam a retail platform by claiming his new monitor was never delivered, requesting a refund.
At first, the site’s AI reacts politely to the scammer’s increasing rudeness, then it exacts sweet revenge.
Whys and wherefores here.
https://vimeo.com/493007374
The 2016 original (in case you missed it) and recently released second instalment of Fabrice Mathieu’s Hitchcock/Lucas mashup – the Cary Grant star vehicle that should have been but – for spacial and temporal reasons – never was.
You’ll recall his excellent pisstake of moon landing denial conspiracies ‘Moon Shining’.
Quotes from season two of The Mandalorian transformed into retro Star Wars movie posters by the mighty Butcher Billy.
Previously: Night Of The Living Cure
A dark parody by filmmaker Lydia Cambron, paralleling Dave Bowman’s hallucinogenic trip in Kubrick’s ‘2001: A space Odyssey’ with similar experiences we’ve all had since March of this year.
In this short by Andrew Kasch for the Just Scare Me showcase, it’s October 31st 2020 and Michael Myers is having the worst Halloween ever, until…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mCuAQlF6U
Footage by the pioneering French engineer and cinematograph inventor Louis Lumière of a snowball fight on a street in Lyon from 1896, upscaled and colourised by Joaquim Campa using the open source software DeOldify.
Your man on the bike, though. Classic bombardment.
Plus ça change…
‘Final Cut: Ladies And Gentlemen’ – an experimental feature-length film by Hungarian director György Pálfi that was shown at Cannes in 2012.
Using clips from 450 movies that span almost the entire history of cinema, it’s a montage, smoothly transitioning from scene to scene, perfectly echoing the tropes of romantic movies.
It might just be the best, oddest thing you watch today.
