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The new video of the fantastic band Yeasayer. Nude people, desert landscapes, strange digital faces in the sky, horses and more. Love it.
As a bonus, here is a video of Yeasayer's 2080 shooted last year during a Take Away Show in an apartment in Paris organized by the amazing website Blogotheque. Wonderful.
Two videos from young director Thomas De Napoli just founded on the FreeWilliamsburg blog. I saw on the Internet Movie Data Base that he was an assistant on the Wes Anderson's Darjeeling Limited. Interesting, there is really something familiar (narrator, text, colors, actors looking the camera) but with its own personality. Above: Hipster Job, shot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Below: His last clip for Guy Fantastico, "Nom De Guerre". Website.
Beck has just collaborated with Charlotte Gainsbourg on her new album "IRM" coming soon. This is their first video clip directed by Keith Schofield and we really love it. The clip is very inventive and surprising but it is very polemic too. Indeed, the clip includes many and many familiar references founded on the web as the work of photographer William Hundley. This is posing really interesting questions about the use of random internet images as a source of creation. Is it a mean to reach a new visual collective memory, an homage to the Fffound community to make a collaborative art piece or simply a way to take and re-use some great ideas of others? Read the entire debate here and see what Hundley has posted on his Flickr!
Yesterday we were at the Forever & Today INC, a gallery between New Yorkʼs Lower East Side and Chinatown, to see the new multi-channel video installation by American artist Conrad Ventur. A great and beautiful installation in maybe the smallest gallery in the world.
Official description : "Ventur brings together concepts of biography, celebrity, and captured historical performances within the realm of expanded cinema in This Is My Life (Shirley Bassey), using selections from a lifetime of performances by legendary Welsh singer Dame Shirley Basseyʼs unforgettable 1968 song “This Is My Life.”
Culled from the internet site YouTube, videos of Bassey singing “This Is My Life” during various stages of her career are simultaneously filtered through slowly spinning crystal prisms suspended in close proximity to the lenses of projectors, creating a kaleidoscopic effect casting infinite images of the songstress.
An ethereal and haunting experience ensues, as the singer appears at different ages and stages of her career with a chorus of Basseys singing along in rhythm and time."
We don't know if the video above is included in the performance but this is the song. Photos: Nicolas Giroud.
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