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Mon, 26 May 2008
Rain
'Broxbourne' 19.3MB 48 secs
'Haiku' 15MB 11 secs
Lumières both.
Broxbourne is a tiny Angelopoulos homage.
Sun, 25 May 2008
2 movies
'At Worrall' 49.7MB 2:20 min
'Portrait of the Artist' 6.9MB 1:27 min silent
The original footage for At Worrall was taken by my cousin
Jennifer in the early sixties
(She must have delegated sometimes because she appears briefly).
My parents, Olive and Lukasz Szpakowski, also appear as does my
English grandfather, Wilfred Willis.
The slightly hyperactive boy is me & the little girl is my sister, Jill.
Remixed would be too strong a word - I slightly rearranged it
& added the music...
Sat, 24 May 2008
W/C 19th May
'Cat and House with Cherry Tree in Background' 27.8MB 46 secs silent
'Marylebone' 14.9MB 54 secs silent
'Spectacle' 27.2MB 44 secs silent
'Tottenham Hale' 17.6MB 38 secs silent
'Passengers Boarding a Train' 30MB 57 secs silent
'Footpath in West London' 12.6MB 40 secs silent
'Figures in a Landscape' 19MB 41 secs silent
Seven Lumières
'Footpath in West London' is a respectful nod
in the direction of Bas Jan Ader.
It's the backdrops to the fallings-over or whatever
which haunt me.
That place, that time.
Fri, 16 May 2008
Burbage
'Higger Tor' 54.4MB 1:37 min
'Burbage Loop' 14.9MB 26 sec palindrome loop silent
Tue, 13 May 2008
The Drowned World
'The Drowned World' 8.1MB 48 secs silent
Lumière.
Fri, 09 May 2008
6th May 2008
'6th May 2008' 62.8MB 2:26 min
'Scrubs Lane' 25.8MB 59 secs silent
Scrubs Lane is a Lumière.
Sun, 04 May 2008
Track
'Track' 22.5MB 54 sec palindrome loop
In the Spring of 2003 I started making tiny QuickTime movies, as a kind of moving image dream diary.
This quickly became a major focus of my work & I have made at least two or three every month since.
In 2006 I arranged them in their current, semi-chronological, format (everything from April 2003 - Dec 2005
appears in the first four months of 2006).
All the movies, new & old, still live in the
same folder & can be accessed from there too.
You may freely download & remix any of them, though I would appreciate a credit.
Where credits are due to others for material I have appropriated or remixed, or for
performances, I will include a note with the posts here.
All music, except where otherwise stated, is by me.
I hope you like the movies, though of course I will continue to make & post them whether you do or not (but my thanks for looking!).
If you're interested enough you can read more about them here,
here,
here
& here.
michael