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John Porter in London 2

2007-02-09T10:44:00.000Z

John Porter captured at cogcollective by Stefan Szczelkun

Brut Smog reviews John Porter

2007-02-05T12:32:00.000Z

"The time lapse used in pieces such as Landscape, Santa Claus Parade and particularly Amusement Park all cleverly undermined the illusion of representation so inherent in mainstream cinema and like the early films of John Smith were also simultaneously poignant and beautiful."
Read the whole review at Brut Smog

John Porter in London

2007-02-03T17:32:00.000Z

screening Sunday 4th February

Screen Dump - The Videos

2006-12-07T12:39:00.000Z

For all those who missed last month's Screen Dump screening of new V-Log work from Youtube and beyond here is a chance to see the works again. The page may take a moment to load as there are over 40 videos!
Compiled by Philip Sanderson.

1. Train by fubabee

2. Direct Language 03 by Steven Ball

3. SadEyedAnimeGrl by Brookers

4. God's the boy that brings the joy by Happyherz Try the Christianity :-) And eh, don't be naughty girl...

5. Stone Skipping Record by hight3chDOTcom 34 skips !! Record Holder: Kurt Steiner

6. I Probably Shouldn't Post This... by lonelygirl15 Today was really crummy because Daniel came over and we were supposed to work through our problems, but instead we got in a big fight. It sucked. I'm still mad... urrrghgh!

7. Re: I Probably Shouldn't Post This... by TheHill88 I think you guys should spend a few weeks off camera for a bit without logging on to YouTube and reading mean comments and getting all upset.

8. real life frogger by asphaltjunkiez car just misses everyone

9. 2 Minutes Of Noise by louisunderwood See title above. Composed on Saturday, July 29th, 2006

10. Machine Man - Lasse Gjertsen by assegg How it's made: Gaah, do I really have to explain? Ok. Filmed my friend Bo Fan at over 70 locations, (used Premiere to) cut it into different video files, figured out how many frames his walking cycle was and just started cutting together, frame by frame. Wee

11. No Control by BowieChick

12. Fleshtones by Philip Sanderson Pornographic footage is broken down into a simple pixel tableau of colour. Given the subject matter this palette is either predominately pink or coffee coloured thus producing a sequence of flickering fleshtones. Using the wonders of max/msp/jitter these Fleshtones are turned into lyrical piano music.

13. LONDON Picadilly Circus by whatmeans

14. Card Control by markyeager Magic Routine performed with a new deck. Great practice routine

15. The Queen is almost assaulted... by kinglarvae During the "Trooping of the Colours", a loony guy leaped out from where we were standing and took a run at her

16. Somehow, on traffic, again by SAM RENSEIW Remenbering Playtime, Sam Renseiw caught some recent traffic footage in the middle of the Champs-Elyssees.

17. Direct Language 2.7 by Steven Ball

18. pigs by heymel81

19. To Hell With Bree's Dad (yeah!) by Danielbeast I'm headed out the door right now, but I wanted to put up this video first.

20. Valstar Barbie by SAM RENSEIW Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting", mused Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Tzara.

21. The Incredible Mouth Band by Doki66 I thought "wouldn't it be a good idea if there was a band that, instead of playing instruments, just repeatedly spoke the title of their instrument to the tune of the song"

22. Blackpool Ghost Train by jgwilson88 Me and Rankin having a jest on the ghost train in some arcade place.

23. Killing time...by version3point1 Erm... yes. Oyster cards, Oyster card wallets, negatives, photography and other ramblings

24. Three bottles of Fairy liquid by version3point1 Jon, Zuri and some other guys went out to the horse fountain on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket, depositing three bottles worth of Fairy liquid into the monument.You can guess what happened.

25. Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years. By NK5000 Original music by Carly Comando

26. Speed on ride at oakwood pembrokeshire wales by greasychipbutty

27. I'm Really, Really, Really Excited! By lonelygirl15 Daniel came to my play last night and you all knew before

28. Old Lady VS. Jerk in Mercedes onnythumbs

29. Kelly - Shoes posted by CowSayingMoo Lets get some shoes

30. Mardi gras gator by fieroalchemist reving the 3.2L v6 in my 86 fiero from inside the car.

31. POLICE ARREST by ray110208

32. Jiggery Pokery by Philip Sanderson Through the use of some jiggery pokery a still photo of two Scottish dancers is animated by the highland music

33. Why lonelygirl? by Fachh First video ever made, totally ad-lib outta the blue.why is lonelygirl so popular?

34. Learn harmonica by ear by nighttrainjames

35. Porsche 911 (964) Cabrio Turbo Look2 ResaMatt Driving 201 kph on a narrow country road in Holland (Amersfoort)

36. run of the mill by Brookers Just your regular run of the mill video blog lots of blah blah blah and uhmm uhmm uhmm extra uhm actually...on the side !!! a message to all my "haters" etc. you know the usual.

37. Engine Trouble by Philip Sanderson A single shot of a Harley Davidson engine is digitally animated; to produce a swirling mass of metal. Using max/msp/jitter the movement of the image is scanned to produce the 'engine' for the soundtrack

38. French celebration in London by bakeremily Picadilly Circus. World Cup semi-finals: France 1, Portugal 0. Jul 5 2006.

39. Re: LonelyGirl15 is a FAKE... PLEASE WATCH!!! By Aaronuart

40. Direct Language12 by Steven Ball

41. Re: LonelyGirl15 is a FAKE... PLEASE WATCH!!! Renetto This is a video response to: "LonelyGirl 15 is out! Not kidding y'all"

42. I must confess... bowiechick

43. A Message From Chad and Steve by YouTube The YouTube founders talk about the Google acquisition.

44. Fireworks stag inn pslter lane sheffield november 5th by greasychipbutty

Candid Patalab

2006-11-09T21:30:00.000Z

"Patalab's videos will study the laws which govern exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or less ambitiously they will describe a universe which one can see – must see perhaps – instead of the traditional one, for the laws discovered in the traditional universe are themselves correlated exceptions, even though frequent, or in any case accidental facts which, reduced to scarcely exceptional exceptions, don’t even have the advantage of singularity."

Thus writes Sam Renseiw who travelled to London from Copenhagen on Sunday to be at the cogcollective Screen Dump programme. While there he shot this video in the Candid basement as we set up for the afternoon. Click on the image for Snatch: déroutement électronique and see more of Sam's factual accidents at his wonderful videoblog spacetwo : patalab

Screen Dump tracklisting

2006-11-02T17:44:00.000Z

Screen Dump 4pm, Sunday 5th November 2006
Basement CANDID ARTS TRUST, 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ

1. Train by fubabee / 2. Direct Language 03 by Steven Ball / 3. SadEyedAnimeGrl by Brookers / 4. God's the boy that brings the joy by Happyherz Try the Christianity :-) And eh, don't be naughty girl... / 5. Stone Skipping Record by hight3chDOTcom 34 skips !! Record Holder: Kurt Steiner / 6. I Probably Shouldn't Post This... by lonelygirl15 Today was really crummy because Daniel came over and we were supposed to work through our problems, but instead we got in a big fight. It sucked. I'm still mad... urrrghgh! / 7. Re: I Probably Shouldn't Post This... by TheHill88 I think you guys should spend a few weeks off camera for a bit without logging on to YouTube and reading mean comments and getting all upset. / 8. real life frogger by asphaltjunkiez car just misses everyone / 9. 2 Minutes Of Noise by louisunderwood See title above. Composed on Saturday, July 29th, 2006 / 10. Machine Man - Lasse Gjertsen by assegg How it's made: Gaah, do I really have to explain? Ok. Filmed my friend Bo Fan at over 70 locations, (used Premiere to) cut it into different video files, figured out how many frames his walking cycle was and just started cutting together, frame by frame. Wee / 11. No Control by BowieChick / 12. Fleshtones by Philip Sanderson Pornographic footage is broken down into a simple pixel tableau of colour. Given the subject matter this palette is either predominately pink or coffee coloured thus producing a sequence of flickering fleshtones. Using the wonders of max/msp/jitter these Fleshtones are turned into lyrical piano music. / 13. LONDON Picadilly Circus by whatmeans / 14. Card Control by markyeager Magic Routine performed with a new deck. Great practice routine / 15. The Queen is almost assaulted... by kinglarvae During the "Trooping of the Colours", a loony guy leaped out from where we were standing and took a run at her / 16. Somehow, on traffic, again by SAM RENSEIW Remenbering Playtime, Sam Renseiw caught some recent traffic footage in the middle of the Champs-Elyssees. / 17. Direct Language 2.7 by Steven Ball / 18. pigs by heymel81 / 19. To Hell With Bree's Dad (yeah!) by Danielbeast I'm headed out the door right now, but I wanted to put up this video first. / 20. Valstar Barbie by SAM RENSEIW Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting", mused Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Tzara. / 21. The Incredible Mouth Band by Doki66 I thought "wouldn't it be a good idea if there was a band that, instead of playing instruments, just repeatedly spoke the title of their instrument to the tune of the song" / 22. Blackpool Ghost Train by jgwilson88 Me and Rankin having a jest on the ghost train in some arcade place. / 23. Killing time...by version3point1 Erm... yes. Oyster cards, Oyster card wallets, negatives, photography and other ramblings / 24. Three bottles of Fairy liquid by version3point1 Jon, Zuri and some other guys went out to the horse fountain on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket, depositing three bottles worth of Fairy liquid into the monument.You can guess what happened. / 25. Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years. By NK5000 Original music by Carly Comando 26. Speed on ride at oakwood pembrokeshire wales by greasychipbutty / 27. I'm Really, Really, Really Excited! By lonelygirl15 Daniel came to my play last night and you all knew before / 28. Old Lady VS. Jerk in Mercedes onnythumbs / 29. Kelly - Shoes posted by CowSayingMoo Lets get some shoes / 30. Mardi gras gator by fieroalchemist reving the 3.2L v6 in my 86 fiero from inside the car. / 31. POLICE ARREST by ray110208 / 32. Jiggery Pokery by Philip Sanderson Through the use of some jiggery pokery a still photo of two Scottish dancers is animated by the highland music / 33. Why lonelygirl? by Fachh First video ever made, totally ad-lib outta the blue.why is lonelygirl so popular? / 34. Learn harmonica by ear by nighttrainjames / 35. Porsche 911 (964) Cabrio Turbo Look2 ResaMatt Driving 201 kph on a narrow country road in Holland (Amersfoort) / 36. run of the mill by Brookers Just your regular run of the mill video blog lots of blah blah blah and uhmm uhmm uhmm extra uhm actually...on the side !!! a message to all my "haters" etc. you know the usual. / 37. Engine Trouble by Philip Sanderson A single shot of a Harley Davidson engine is digitally animated; to produce a swirling mass of metal. Using max/msp/jitter the movement of the image is scanned to produce the 'engine' for the soundtrack / 38. French celebration in London by bakeremily Picadilly Circus. World Cup semi-finals: France 1, Portugal 0. Jul 5 2006. / 39. Re: LonelyGirl15 is a FAKE... PLEASE WATCH!!! By Aaronuart / 40. Direct Language12 by Steven Ball / 41. Re: LonelyGirl15 is a FAKE... PLEASE WATCH!!! Renetto This is a video response to: "LonelyGirl 15 is out! Not kidding y'all" / 42. I must confess... bowiechick / 43. A Message From Chad and Steve by YouTube The YouTube founders talk about the Google acquisition. / 44. Fireworks stag inn pslter lane sheffield november 5th by greasychipbutty

Urban Research on Film

2006-07-30T10:16:00.000+01:00

The next cogcollective screening (Sunday 6th August) has been programmed by Klaus W Eisenlohr and is drawn from his ongoing Urban Research on Film project.

The Urban Research project was presented as part of the Directors Lounge series of screenings in Berlin. The theme of urbanity clearly provides a great deal of material to chose from and is ripe for potential curatorial approaches. Klaus is interested in “artists who use their own original language, experimental work, documentary, animation or essay together create a discourse on the contemporary city.” While in Berlin I only had time to see a very small selection of the programmes. In my impressions of Directors Lounge I noted that Klaus’s film programming is generically broad, that its thematic nature allows for interesting and surprising connections, and wrote that “the programme weaves through a range of approaches to surveillance linking the neo-voyeuristic, the fantastical, the mundane. Notions of urbanity are imagined and constructed, not simply in orthodox terms of cities and spatiality, but also in personal and cultural terms.”

One of my other observations was that I hadn’t seen any of the work or artists involved shown in London and couldn’t think of a context in which they were likely to be shown. I recall telling Klaus about the lack of committed and regular screenings here, suggested that if I got involved in organising something I would be very interested in presenting a programme of the Urban Research project. So here it is and Klaus will be here to introduce and talk about the programme.

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2006-07-03T23:26:00.000+01:00

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