Tuesday’s Video Pick | Stanley Kubrick
March 9, 2010 · Print This Article
For this week’s pick we bring you Stanley Kubrick’s 1951 documentary “Day Of The Fight”.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You has a great article about Kubrick’s early docs including today’s pick.
Tuesday’s Video Pick | Andy Bruntel
March 2, 2010 · Print This Article
This week’s pick is a video by Andy Bruntel for the band Liars. Something about this video reminds me of Charlie White’s work. Stylistically it looks nothing like his video for adicolor but the creepy factor is there.
Tuesday’s Video Pick | Wednesday Edition
February 24, 2010 · Print This Article
I’ve been in bed sick for about a handful of days so this week’s pick is a little late. After catching up on the latest horrendiously bad Christian rock band I found an equally disturbing video of Kirsten Dunst directed by McG and produced by Takashi Murakami entitled, Akihabara Majokko Princess. Is it just me or does this video feel very similar to Dunst’s performance for the end credits of Bring it On but set in Japan? There are even cheerleaders at one point! Is this just a pop culture reference, a sign of a lack of imagination when it comes to casting, poor acting, or all of the above ?
Tuesday’s Video Pick | Sophia Peer
February 16, 2010 · Print This Article
For this week’s pick we bring you video artist Sophia peer’s video for the Baltimore based band Ponytail entitled, Celebrate the Body Electric (It Came From an Angel).
Check out Sophia Peer’s Youtube page
Tuesday’s Video Pick| Dara Birnbaum
February 9, 2010 · Print This Article
For this week’s pick we bring you Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79. Birnbaum will be screening and speaking about her work at the Gene Siskel’s Conversations at the Edge on February 11th.
via Art Torents:
“In her video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, Dara Birnbaum created one of the first examples of appropriation imagery from mainstream television, something that is now quite common. Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, features, as one might expect, Wonder Woman, the main character of the prime-time television programm of the same name which was based on an action-adventure comic book. Using actual sceans from the series, Birnbaum ‘plung[es] the viewer headlong into the ver experience of TV- unveiling TV’s steriotypical gestures of power and submission, of male and female egos.”
