elliot

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You will need  QUICKTIME. This is a free plugin from Apple, available here.
Conventional Movies:
A number of conventional films are located at handmadevideo at blip.tv

 

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EasyStreet

There is no play button.
 1. Play the file (below) and wait for the movie to download to your RAM.
2. Drag the video to animate the frames
3. Click on any character to see a new film.
4. Click anywhere in the new film to return to the original.
Load Interactive Film

This is a  five part “hyper-text” style video created almost entirely from materials, including music, downloaded from the Library of Congress and from a few snapshots of street scenes around Saint Paul, Minnesota. The stories are true and for the most part accompanied the downloads from the L.O.C. Some additional research filled out the back stories – but all of it is true!
Main Music: Fauré: Barcarolles

 


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Silent Movies

Click the link and then wait for the file to download. There is no play button. Subsequent movies are linked by clicking in the frames of each file.


It’s Easy!
 1. Play the file (below) and wait for the movie to download to your RAM.
2. Drag the video to animate the frames
3. Click anywhere IN the frame to advance to the next movie.

Drag to play - Click to advance

ENTER SILENT MOVIES
This exhibit explores the idea of maturing under the influence of television media and the simulacra therein used to attract and maintain the apt attention of its viewers.  This is the place where media, memories and dreams freely interact. All music by Casey O’Brien.

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more sounds

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newschool

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Browser/Tech Notes

Browsers and Tech Notes: Fist of all, you’ll need QUICKTIME. This is a free plugin from Apple, available here. Apple’s new architecture (64-bit) has discontinued support for the VR technology used in the animations below and we are considering two options in response. More later. Fastest tested browser response time is with Chrome which also displays a controller allowing you to zoom in and out. Firefox seems to create a harmless poster frame of the films upon loading. Click on these to disregard. You may use the right and left arrow keys in place of the mouse. (mouse-en-scene © :) ) You may not hear audio with 64-bit systems. We have a fix for that on the way.

 

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art and activism under the gun

Landing in America: Art and Activism under the Gun was commissioned by Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis and installed at their gallery in Minneapolis for the Unconvention show running parallel to the National RNC and DNC presidential conventions in 2008.

There are five parts to the exhibit. Click through each move where individual artists and activists share the streets with legendary art heros and political stars. Animate the frames by dragging the mouse. CLick in each frame to advance to the next clip.

ENTER EXHIBIT

The Ghost Dance lyrics in scene 5 were a controversial part of tragic Dakota history in “nice” Minnesota. The Indians were suffering a brutal ethnic cleansing carried out by the local people and National government. In spite of efforts that included Little Crow’s repeated journeys to Washington D.C. where he appeared before members of Congress  to resolve the question of “annuities” owed to the tribe but never payed, some tribe members “resorted” to this dance and chant over the objection of other members who saw the dance as useless and counter-productive. The dance and dancers were later demeaned in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Traveling Shows and Thomas Edison found the dancers a suitable subject for a number of his films that thousands saw out of context via his “Kinetoscope.” I included the lyrics because I hope that they do haunt the people who seem to have so easily forgotten this history.

 

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