Suuns// 2020

New video I made for the Montreal band Suuns.

"ElectrOgier" // GENEVIÈVE HERVÉ

This video is the first video-painting by Geneviève HERVE with her muse Pascale Ogier. It has been broadcasted by French television in January 1982 (in LES ENFANTS DU ROCK). http://genevieveherve.com/ Thanks to Video Circuit! 

52 PICK-UP VIDEOS

After a year break, I decided to get involved again in this project called 52 Pick-Up Videos. Initiated by Dayna Mcleod, the project challenges participants to produce a video per week for a whole year and to publish it on the website. This is the best way I found so far to keep me disciplined about my personal work and it really helps me to keep moving, no matter if it's forward, backward, sideward. 

Here is week 1, http://www.52pickupvideos.com/HTML/Ratte_y3_Week1.html

Dance Study #1 with the dancer Claudine Hébert, music by Roger Tellier-Craig.

Here is what I did in 

Year 1 http://www.52pickupvideos.com/HTML/Ratte_grid.html

Year 2 http://www.52pickupvideos.com/HTML/Ratte_y2_grid.html

JOLLY GHOSTS

Short video inspired by "The Zone" from Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" and from the Strugatsky's Brothers book "Roadside Picnic". This video is part of the project "Special effects"commissioned by Cartune Xprez. It will premiere at the Museum of the Moving Images in NYC on January 18th.

Contributors include James Duesing, Amy Lockhart, Yoshi Sodeoka, Billy Grant, Michael Bell-Smith, Ola Vasiljeva, Jacob Ciocci, Andrew Benson, Jeff Kriksciun, Chad VanGaalen, Philippe Blanchard, E*Rock, Luke Painter, Brandon Blommaert, Stu Hughes, Devin Flynn, Michael Robinson, Sabrina Ratté, Ben Coonley, and Brenna Murphy. Written by Peter Burr, Maya Lubinsky, and PFFR. Costumes by Diana Joy. Set by Peter Burr and Elliot Montgomery. Computer programming by Mike Heavers.

 

EXPERIMENT V

RAGLANI // TrampolineDream

Here is a video I made for Raglani. It's also the first video I made using footage produced with my  LZX video synthesizer.

from the LP Real Colors Of The Physical World on Editions Mego.

editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+159

Sunset Ok

Just stumbled upon this Vimeo channel filled with beautiful experiments. 

Here is the description: Turbo computer,  video synthesis, digital video feedback, software transparency, the signal, critical procedures.

turbo computer from sunset ok on Vimeo.

videoscape 0001 from sunset ok on Vimeo.

slice tool from sunset ok on Vimeo.

AURAE

Music by Roger Tellier-Craig

STEVE HAUSCHILDT // INTERCONNECTED

Here is a music video that I made using video feedback as raw material, then refilmed and manipulated digitally. Steve's music is wonderful, his new album Sequitur will come out in November via Kranky.

L'ARCHE DE NAM JUNE // Jean-Paul Fargier - 1981

AURORATONE

I was asked to participate in an interesting project for Film POP (part of POP Montreal festival) organized by Kier-La Janisse. The project consisted in making a video or a short film with the music of an artist performing at POP Montreal this year, and to make this piece in the same spirit as the obscur genre called Auroratone. Here is a brief description of what the event was all about and what an Auroratone is:

The Auroratone Project is a commission of original short films by experimental Canadian filmmakers set to the music of POP Montreal’s 2012 participants. ‘Auroratones’ were abstract musical films used in mental institutions and army hospitals after WWII as a means of soothing post-traumatic stress disorder and general mental disturbance, invented by film enthusiast Cecil Stokes who was continuing on nearly two centuries of previous pseudo-scientific attempts to correlate colour with musical notes. For POP Montreal, filmmakers Leslie Supnet (Manitoba), Emily Pelstring (Quebec), Jon Rafman (Quebec), Alex MacKenzie (BC), Walter Forsberg (Manitoba), Leslie Bell (Alberta), Jaimz Asmundson (Manitoba), Cheryl Hann (Nova Scotia), Tamara Scherbak (Quebec), Heather Rappard (Nova Scotia) and Sabrina Ratte (Quebec) were approached to create original abstract films guided by the principles of Cecil Stokes’ Auroratones.

http://popmontreal.com/events-tickets/le-projet-auroratone-nouvelles-frontieres-du-cinema-psychiatrique-the-auroratone-project-new-frontiers-in-psychiatric-cinema/

Here is the only known surviving Auroratone film, When the Organ Played 'O Promise Me,' which is in the private collection of Gus Martens -- himself an amateur cinema enthusiast and filmmaker, who at one time earned side-money projecting films at the Creedmor Psychiatric Center, in his native Queens, New York.

And, well, here is my own Auroratone, thanks a lot to Tim Hecker for giving the permission to use his music.

ARCHITECTURAL GLASS

In recent years, amazingly few books on contemporary stained glass have come onto the market, and of these hardly any cover specifically secular work. This absence of published material has allowed the myth to continue, even in the architectural world, that stained glass is still primarily a neo-Gothic, ecclesiastical medium. This book sets out to explode that myth. It seeks to create a new image, a new sense of what stained glass is about in the modern world. 

Architectural Glass, Andrew Moor, Witney Library of Design, New York, 1989

Richard Spaulding, 1985

Lutz Haufschild, 1986

Kazumi Ikemoto, 1985

James Walker, 1984

Lutz Haufschild, 1981

Karl Traut, 1988

LE RÉVÉLATEUR // DATA DAZE

New video for Le Révélateur,

Horizon Fears cassette drops August 14 on NNA Tapes!

MAINMISE

Mainmise, organe québécois du rock international, de la pensée magique, et du gay savoir, a publié 78 numéros, entre 1970 et 1978. Voici un extrait tiré du texte "La technologie" en page 11.

Il me semble vraiment que c'est une erreur que de montrer la photographie de l'océan pour dire après: "ha! quel magnifique océan!...". Voilà encore une autre fausse expérience qui devient vite une autre distraction."

En ce que cela ne sert d'aucune façon cette petite chose en nous qui nous dirige.

À partir du point où je suis, cette imagerie intérieure (laquelle pourrait bien être ce qui naît du video/synthetizeur) me représente, en effet, mais sous un autre de relation par rapport à l'image. 

Cela est tout à fait différent d'une image photographiée. 

L'imagerie synthétisée est une sorte différente d'images; c'est une image qui n'est rien que sa propre et unique image. 

On trouve cette notion de vibrations, d'ondes, à peu près partout où l'on se rassemble pour parler de matière de l'Univers. Ce vidéo électronique ressemble, pour le fond et à bien des égards, à ce dont est fait l'énergie naturelle. On théorise souvent sur l'énergie des quanta; ce que l'on voit comme solide n'est, en fait, que des ondes, lesquelles ne sont différentes, de nature, à la lumière par exemple.  

(Stephen Beck, parlant du "Beck Direct Video Synthesizer", lequel produit des images télévisées sans le concours de caméra ou de tout autre intermédiaire optique.)

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma // Faceless Kiss

Video for Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Alone Together #6 - Faceless Kiss / Blut Mond 7" [EC008]

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