Kanye West’s latest visual hijinks: unapproved video remixes of arthouse favourites as instant quality music videos for Graduation. Wong Kar Wai’s 2046, and mainly footage from the BUF produced future city images of the melancholic sci-fier are utilised.
GRADUATION ALBUM LISTENING EXPERIENCE PT. 6 - FLASHING LIGHTS from kwest on Vimeo.
Archive for April, 2008
Music video arthoused
Ballardian video gain with Vista 8
Vista 8 is the winner of the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. Other finalists of this sub-one minute in-camera mobile phone video recordings also show a provocative analogue/digital purity.
As someone who’s experimented with mobile phone footage for years (the frozen ROAM project - pushing new aesthetics for the mobile screen/locative video) - this is [...]
Ardour quelled over Bjork’s Wanderlust
I thought it might be Hiyao Miyazaki-esque in its ambitious reach for the fantastical, but after all the hype Bjork’s latest videoclip, the epic 9-month in the making Wanderlust, washes over you as ineffectually as the river that she travels along within it.
Maybe viewing it in high definition 3D might be a revelation, but [...]
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