A short by the talented young John Mervin, who sez of it:
2 years ago when I was 16, I had the idea of a story that visually portrayed the perspective of someone who has no vision, a blind girl. I found the ironic use of the visual medium (a short film) intriguing. So, all through Last year, I decided to practice the craft of filmmaking and create it myself.
Spectacular 200m high drone footage of the impressive lightshow in the skies above Lima in Peru on New year’s Eve by photographer Jeff Cremer.
Music: Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
The entirety of The Wizard Of Oz (1939) (that is to say, every word and non verbal utterance plus opening titles) re-edited into alphabetised form by Matt Busey.
A work of such pointless brilliance that one Vimeo commenter ventures:
Anyone Floyd has Pink sychned this up with yet?
The ‘dead’ sequence, starting around 19:40, is especially good.
A short by Mathieu Labaye of Belgian animation collective Camera-etc. that explores the fragmented perceptions of time and reality experienced by the inmate of a 6m² cell.
Steve Collender writes:
I do mashup videos of songs and films. At the weekend I released a video made of clips from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) accompanying the song ‘Turn it Off’ by New York electronic band Phantogram. The band loved it
The speeder bike chase through the forests of Endor from Return Of The Jedi (played here by the woodlands of California) recreated by drone enthusiasts Eric Maloney and Sahand Barati.
Gerry ‘Thunderbirds’ Anderson would have approved.
Dubln based artist Shane Finan writes:
I am a Dublin-based artist and have created a painting that is split into 96 pieces. These are being sold to raise money for a series of exhibitions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland through a Swiss art gallery, Wandelbar Art International. The painting represents the idea of one whole being split into many parts and the hope is that these parts spread around the world, splitting the painting up permanently.
More info here.
Ahead of this week’s visit of snake oil salesman motivational guru Tony Robbins’ to Dublin, artist David Tully (he of the inspired Bray Head Cross Hoop) writes:
This is about Tony the fictional character from The Shining (1980) resurrected as Tony Robbins. Parodying the rise of new age (psuedo-science empowerment psychologies) religions.
Make of it what you will.
Your Brass Angel – Trick Mist
Manchester based electonica/tradster Gav of Triick Mist writes:
This is video No.3 from the ‘Gaps Series’. These are videos made for my EP ‘Jars in Rows’ but without my involvement in the process. Multiple artists were invited to respond to a song from the EP and in turn create a reactionary piece of video work based solely on their perception. This video created by video artist, director, editor Graham Patterson features loads of mouths floating around the place. I reckon Samuel Beckett would have definitely buzzed off it! ‘Jars in Rows’ EP is out now.
Previously: Jars In Rows
