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jazzy_daveWell due to the paucity of good stuff on the TV i have been watching DVDs again,and after the visit to the art gallery earlier today i decided to dig out some slightly more artistic stuff.
Firstly the recently purchased "Drift" by Lee Renaldo (of Sonic Youth) and Leah Singer (video and 16mmm artist) which is a studio recorded version of his poems and texts with feedbacked guitar and soundscapes from Alan Licht and Christian Marclay with the projections by Leah. Comes with a book enclosing some of her filmic images and an interview with both of them plus the texts to each poem,and a summation by Alan Licht.
The other DVD is Brian Eno "14 Video Paintings", which is reissues of two video installations "Thursday Afternoon" and "Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan". Both of these videos have very slow long shots of images transcribed as if you were seeing paintings in a gallery. Basically it is something you can watch in intervals whilst doing something else and return to it with almost the same picture being shown. You could sit still and watch it (like normal TV or film) but Eno designed these two to be fairly static,and at 47 mins long and 82 mins long would be a mindnumbing haul for just simply watching them as you would in a normal passive enviroment. Hence the title of the DVD "Video Paintngs".
Firstly the recently purchased "Drift" by Lee Renaldo (of Sonic Youth) and Leah Singer (video and 16mmm artist) which is a studio recorded version of his poems and texts with feedbacked guitar and soundscapes from Alan Licht and Christian Marclay with the projections by Leah. Comes with a book enclosing some of her filmic images and an interview with both of them plus the texts to each poem,and a summation by Alan Licht.
The other DVD is Brian Eno "14 Video Paintings", which is reissues of two video installations "Thursday Afternoon" and "Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan". Both of these videos have very slow long shots of images transcribed as if you were seeing paintings in a gallery. Basically it is something you can watch in intervals whilst doing something else and return to it with almost the same picture being shown. You could sit still and watch it (like normal TV or film) but Eno designed these two to be fairly static,and at 47 mins long and 82 mins long would be a mindnumbing haul for just simply watching them as you would in a normal passive enviroment. Hence the title of the DVD "Video Paintngs".
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