Archive for the ‘Surprise Me!’ Category

Kyle Ruddick/Eyestorm Productions, USA, 2008

An experimental video shot entirely through a 360 degree panoramic lens to represent the nature of turntablism. It’s a spinning, sensory overload experience, which will keep you asking: how’d they do that?

*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival

Hope Hall, USA, 1999

The filmmaker made this memoir about her mother ’s struggles with an eating disorder, by using family photos, interviews, projected video and underwater footage. Not so much kinetic as moving.

Tuixen Benet, Spain, 2009
Unabashedly low-tech, danced in a rehearsal studio, this is all one take. With high heels that could kill, these two zany cigarette girls clatter around in real time, and then in sped up footage. The message: GIVE US CIGARETTES – WE ARE PRETTY.

Jared Frank, USA, 2009

A video of excerpts from Palissimo’s psychosexual show, “Weddings & Beheadings”, Jared Frank boils the live performance down to a minute and a half.