Re: visual albums

From: Scott R (email suppressed)
Date: Sat May 15 2010 - 12:51:00 PDT


some recent, perhaps obvious ones:

there's a guy here in philly (danny perez) who just finished a feature
with animal collective that's was co-written and scored by the band.
it's called oddsac.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/Sac-Attack-The-Story-of-Animal-Collectives-Mindbending-Film.html

also i remember four tet putting out a DVD version of his album
"everything ecstatic" with videos for every song.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Suzie Silver <email suppressed> wrote:
> off the top of my head, from a few years back: The Binary Universe by BT
> cheers,
> suzie
> --
> "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can
> suppose."
> J.B.S. Haldane
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> On 5/15/10 7:23 AM, "Gene Youngblood" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> Steve and Roger,
> James Herbert's nude studies, made over a period of four decades, are
> exquisite. They are to nude portraiture what Brakhage is to abstract
> expressionism, and for the same reason -- the addition of time and motion,
> which unfolds the psychological and emotional potential of the tradition and
> takes it way beyond mere portraiture. And film's tactility has rarely been
> exploited with greater effect. It looks like step printing, but in fact it's
> real-time rephotography involving a hand-cranked projector.
>
> Herbert's films used to be at MoMA (I guess they still are), and for a while
> he was regarded with the kind of reverence we accord to Peter Hutton and
> other artists of that stature.  Jem Cohen released a VHS collection many
> years ago, on his C-100 publishing label, but in spite of that Herbert has
> faded from view. This is both tragic and baffling, given the sheer beauty
> and artistic singularity of these works. One would think that the resurgence
> of artisanal practice in film would return Herbert to the spotlight, but no.
>
> Not everyone shares my opinion. In the late '80s James and I tried to
> persuade Bob Stein to publish a laserdisc box set on his Voyager Press
> label, but Bob, and presumably his consulting staff, were unimpressed.
>
> G.
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