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Touch The Sound

modest mouse documentary

Shot in 1997 by indie filmmaker Rick Madsen, this 36 min documentary filmed during the recording of the Modest Mouse album "The Lonesome Crowded West" will never be released commercially.  Artists interviewed for the film include Elliott Smith, Spencer Moody from The Murder City Devils, Doug Martsch of Built To Spill, Sam Coombs of Quasi and Calvin Johnson.

TV THEME Song Covers

The Simpsons - omfg Inspector Gadget including a break into Alex F !!

A Journey Into The Mind Of P : Thomas Pynchon Doc

3-d underwater holograms

spirited away

cat soup

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Dark Side of the Moon

                 

This video documentary by the "The Passionate Eye" illustrates how the truth can be twisted by the manipulation of images.

The Yes Men

                 

The Yes Men (subtitulado en español)

Not I

                 

(1973) "Starring and Introduced by Billie Whitelaw." "Not I is a short one-woman play by Samuel Beckett. Not I takes place in a pitch black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This light illuminates an actress's mouth. The mouth utters a monologue of fragmented, jumbled sentences which gradually coelesces into a narrative about a woman who has suffered an unpleasant experience. The title comes from the character's repeated insistence that the events she describes did not happen to her." Via http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html

Society of the Spectacle

                             

Guy Debord, 1973

One Week of Art

One week of art
Video sent by gabma

Amazing video of Japanese artists Rinpa Eshidan creations during one week! They paint on a big wall, painting them out and starting over.

I Hate Drake

MORTIFIED Animation: I Hate Drake

Yoko Ono

FOUR, 1967  (.mpg file)

Jacob Young: "Dancing Outlaw"

                 

Somehow this 30 minute video biography of Jesco White, the "best" mountain dancer in West Virginia, manages to be simultaneously frightening, touching, and hilarious. Since originally airing on West Virginia public television, it's become something of a cult classic. "Jessie can be three people. He is Jessie, he is Jesco, and he is Elvis. Jessie is the most beautiful man that I could've ever loved. But Jesco... he is somebody else. He's the devil in hiself. Nothing satisfies him, he can't be happy, nothing you do for him makes him happy." - (Norma Gene White) "And I took the butcher knife and held it up to her neck. I said, 'If you want to live to see tomorrow, you better start frying them eggs a little bit better than what you've been frying them, and I'm tired of eating sloppy slimy eggs." - (Jesco White)

Join the Resistance: Fall in Love

               
 

Directed by the 2003 City of Atlanta Emerging Award Recipient, Franklin Lopez. Narrated by Indigo Girl Amy Ray, this critically acclaimed short is inspired by the book ''Days of War, Nights of Love'' ''Chapter L is for Love'' by the Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective (www.crimethinc.com). This film narrates this chapter and visually tells a story. The story is about two couples. One who followed the path that will most likely please society and the other too passionate about life to care what anyone thinks. (copyleft no rights reserved)

Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle)

                 

The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces.  The hegemonic mass media operates as a propaganda machine in both communist and capitalist nations and creates commodity fetishism in the minds of the masses.

Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise

                 

This documentary examines the turbulent life in California of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), author of One-Dimensional Man, Reason and Revolution and Eros and Civilization, among other books, professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego, and a visionary and influential force for the student movement worldwide during the Sixties and Seventies. Blending archival footage, interviews, re- created scenes and voice-over narration, the video profiles not only the life of Marcuse but also the history of student protest and social activism. The video features interviews with Marcuse's student Angela Davis, former UCSD Chancellor William McGill, colleagues Fredric Jameson and Reinhard Lettau, and rare footage of Marcuse and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Directed by Paul Alexander Juutilainen

Douglas Rushkoff

                 

Douglas Rushkoff  talks about media and the press, about the birth and possibilities of the Internet: what's gone wrong and what could go beautifully right, about counter culture and the "us and them"-mentality.

Paul Laffoley

Paul Laffoley interview - Disinfo TV (2000). Time machine, vegetable house.