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Hattler: Nachtmaschine - Director's Cut 

(2005) 

by experimental video artist Max Hattler utilises distorted urban imagery and neon glare to create this entrancing short. Music by Hellmut Hattler.

A hypnotic dance of simple forms... an original interpretation of the ordinary world that surrounds us.

 

Source: Fresh Film Fest

 

 

Hattler: Nachtmaschine - Director's Cut, jazz, editing, Video Clip

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Rewind, Play, Fast Forward (2010) – The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video by Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) brings together different disciplines as well as journalists, museum curators and gallery owners in order to take a discussion of the past and present of the music video as an opportunity to reflect upon suited methodological approaches to this genre and to allow a glimpse into its future. (transcript Verlag)

Len Lye (2009) co-edited by the curator Tyler Cann and the writer, critic and poet Prof. Wystan Curnow is a tribute to one of New Zealand’s most internationally acclaimed artists is the most comprehensive visual presentation of Len Lye’s art to date.

Over 1,000 new photographs were created and hundreds of them selected for this image-rich publication, presenting the full range of Len Lye’s work, from drawings and paintings right through to his photograms and kinetic experimentations. (Govett-Brewster)

Len Lye: A biography (2001) by Roger Horrock tells for the first time the story of an extraordinary New Zealander, a brilliant artist with an international career who never lost the informality, the energy, the independence of spirit of his South Pacific origins. Len Lye began as an unsettled working-class kid with limited prospects and became a leading modernist artist in London and New York. Roger Horrocks's exhaustive study of Lye has taken many years and is based on interviews with many of those close to the artist as well as on voluminous documentary sources. (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery)

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Scott Pagano creates moving image content utilizing shards of architecture, disfunction, and futurism. With influences ranging from minimal painting to cinema, his work offers a re-envisioned perspective on the graphic stratas that saturate our visual perception. His meticulously constructed abstract artworks push the boundaries of audio-visual composition and process using a dynamic mix of cinematographic and synthetic imagery. (Scott Pagano)

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Allegretto (1936) - In the short film Allegretto by Oskar Fischinger, diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The geometric dance is set against a background of expanding circles that suggest radio waves. (NPR)

Scratch Pad (1960) - The brilliance of Hy Hirsh's films often arises not so much from their technical originality as from their canny coupling of imagery with music that perfectly matches its mood. Hirsh knew Norman McLaren and Len Lye before he scratched and painted directly on film, but his Scratch Pad has a witty jazz expressionist personality different from his predecessors. Len Lye had used the optical printer for synthesizing surreat clusters of imagery, but again Hirsh's complex interface of imagery in his final four films create a more radical and ironic world view. (William Moritz "Hy Hirsh." in "Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America", Boston: Harvard Film Archive, 1995)

One (2007) is a music animated short film created in 2007 by Michal Levy. On the basis of Jason Lindner's tune – Suheir, Michal Levy has created a murky urban environment. This is a machine-city that functions at the fervent rhythm of cylinders, maintaining a quasi-organized chaos. (Loushy)

Art Clokey (1921-2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. (Gumby Dharma)