The Artists by Giant Creative

Internet Story by Adam Butcher

Internet Story from Adam Butcher on Vimeo.

Koxis - Summer 2012 by SurfriderStudio.com

Complot - Summer 2012 by SurfriderStudio.com

Complot - Summer 2012 from SurfriderStudio.com on Vimeo.

Story of the Postman by Rainafter

Jam Session 2.0 by Cain Mosni

RUMAH BABI BY 13

Rumah Babi from Joko Anwar on Vimeo.

Oral Fixation from LOVECATMAGAZINE

DAY FOR NIGHT by Vanessa Bruno

Day for night captures a mysterious fugitive impression of vital strength which is deployed in the darkness of the night.
In the light of day, it becomes sensual and delicate.
Valentine Fillol Cordier has a sort of power over nature. She makes the trees quiver and the wind rages.
She carries in her wake flowers and petals of the tree of life.
Day breaks, Lou Doillon appears. Valentine goes through the night and encounters Lou who brings forth daylight. A hovering magical moment on the surface of water. Lou sings a haunting melody. Her voice rings out and brings peace to the storm in the night.
With Lou and Valentine all the feminin ambiguities start moving. Catlike and delicate, embodied but secretive…
After this soft and sensual parenthesis, the race between the two women, between night and day, between Lou and Valentine, becomes a liberation. Lou sets off for the sun.
With Day for Night, womanhood goes with masculin coats wrapped around soft sensual dresses. Colors are like dawn and dusk…
Here Vanessa imposes the group “Efterklang” a bewitching folk music. Then the sensuality and emotion of Lou’s song which she has composed. The movie sets off with “ The books”.

Day for Night is an emotion. A movie like a poem. A collection that is strong and slightly erotic.

LØV by Vanessa Bruno

i love fashion video, but this one make my eyes feels comfort.. i just like the style, simple but mostly was the architecture that was in to lead the eyes of spectator to see the fashion more deep.. glad to see this video from (Kleting) and (Yaya)



LOV, the new autumn-winter 2011-2012 film directed by Stephanie Di Gusto.
After Lou Doillon, there is the appearance of a another heroine: Kate Bosworth. Her mysteriousness, her strength. Also another side to femininity, a stirring truthfulness which is renewed with every look, every movement accompanied by a wisp of assertiveness and purity. A new gracefulness progressing to a confident allure, conquering, a battling frailty.
It starts with an urban universe almost futuristic where this femininity comes up against angles, up against emptiness where lines are sought for and where poetry is found. A surrealistic dance, frantic and lively giving a light note to this ballad, this adventure which is perhaps the landscape of a soul.
Then the thread of the tale gets tenser. We come across a more solemn Kate, looking inwards, a mysterious warrior. Kate runs away, frightened by her dark double, perhaps her mirror reflection, perhaps her sister in dreams. White horses bolt with the music, liberating her wildness and the impatient purity of her energy, of her victory.
Euphoria of flight, of a grace released from the surface, from reality. Light headed. Kate is at the top of a tree of life giving herself up to an appeasing sun, to a sensual rapture winging towards the heart of the matter, streaming along, a reflection on the water.
In fact, a love story.

LUCID from Jack Haslehurst

instrumental video nine by beeple

Simple machines work together to make music. (fullscreen, please)

Download the entire Cinema 4D project file: beeple-crap.com/​resources.php

Buenos Aires: Las Calles de Borges by Ian Ruschel

"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."
Jorge Luis Borges

A little homage to the Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges, one of the greatest writers of all time. This video was shot in the winter of 2010 in Buenos Aires and Capilla del Señor, Argentina.

Carine's World Part 2 by Barneys The Window

Carine's World Part 1 by Barneys The Window

Barneys New York celebrates the launch of the Carine's World campaign.

Together in Electric Dreams - Phil Oakey (Human League)

From the 1984 movie "Electric Dreams"

Electric Dreams is a 1984 movie set in San Francisco, California that depicts a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a home computer. It stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort (voice) and was directed by Steve Barron.

The soundtrack features music from prominent popular musicians of the time, being among the first of the movies of this generation that actively explored the commercial link between a movie and its soundtrack. The sountrack album Electric Dreams was re-issued on CD in 1998.

The singer (AND CO-WRITER OF THE SONG) in the video is Phil Oakey of The Human League. This video is on "The Best of The Human League" DVD.

There is a cameo by Giorgio Moroder (the man wearing glasses who comes into the radio studio to find out what is going on), he is co-writer/producer Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known are Donna Summer's disco hits produced by Moroder, including "I Feel Love". Moroder is also the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, which served as a recording home for artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and Queen to Elton John for much of the 1980s and 1990s.

Moroder was one of the producers of "Love to Love You Baby" -- Donna Summer's 17 minute opus -- along with Pete Bellotte. Moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for The Three Degrees, two albums for Sparks, and a variety of others including Swedish-born Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Debbie Harry and France Joli.

The VHS recording of this movie is rare. It was released in 1984 and again in 1991, but has not been manufactured since the mid-1990s.

Refait by Pied La Biche

"Refait" is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments. The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting. I LOVEEEEEEEEEE THIS VIDEO . so nice.. i cant not say any thing but to say : wonderfull

Metropolis by Rob Carter - Last 3 minutes by Rob Carter

Metropolis (2008) Total running time: 9 mins 30 secs robcarter.net/​ Metropolis is a quirky and very abridged narrative history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It uses stop motion video animation to physically manipulate aerial still images of the city (both real and fictional), creating a landscape in constant motion. Starting around 1755 on a Native American trading path, the viewer is presented with the building of the first house in Charlotte. From there we see the town develop through the historic dismissal of the English, to the prosperity made by the discovery of gold and the subsequent roots of the building of the multitude of churches that the city is famous for. Now the landscape turns white with cotton, and the modern city is ‘born’, with a more detailed re-creation of the economic boom and surprising architectural transformation that has occurred in the past 20 years. Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, primarily due to the continuing influx of the banking community, resulting in an unusually fast architectural and population expansion that shows little sign of faltering despite the current economic climate. However, this new downtown Metropolis is therefore subject to the whim of the market and the interest of the giant corporations that choose to do business there. Made entirely from images printed on paper, the animation literally represents this sped up urban planners dream, but suggests the frailty of that dream, however concrete it may feel on the ground today. Ultimately the video continues the city development into an imagined hubristic future, of more and more skyscrapers and sports arenas and into a bleak environmental future. It is an extreme representation of the already serious water shortages that face many expanding American cities today; but this is less a warning, as much as a statement of our paper thin significance no matter how many monuments of steel, glass and concrete we build. adel : oohh i just love this kind of video, of course about mega cities .. more about construction and how to see a new thinking of a human build they own cities.. fundamental , and abstract how they create a new style for living.. keep record and play video viva le video best regard adel pasha nb. thanks for all video that i put to this blog..

The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam by pinkyshow

summary: Pinky & Bunny discuss the origins of the Vietnam War (also known as the 'American War' in Vietnam). The episode is comprised of four short chapters: 1. Misrepresentations. 2. Desire and Struggle: a basic timeline of events. 3. Searching for Reasons. 4. Consequences. i always like pinky show .... ahhahhaa the reason are multiply so we can see in a different way ... like we always know that the true is always in a grey position ... so keep record ... so video can say viva video For more information visit: http://www.pinkyshow.org/

History of the Internet by Melih Bilgil

"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. You can already download a pre-release of all picol icons on blog.picol.org/​downloads/​icons/​ nice work from Melih Bilgil ...

flight patterns by Charlie McCarthy

Long exposures of bugs under a street light. music: Telefon Tel Aviv - What's The Use Of Feet If We Haven't Got Legs i love this kind of work... its like a simple dreams.. it let your own mind to figure out what is all about .... after that.. its meaningless .. cause everything its just a same... hope u enjoy Charlie works... best regard adel pasha

Das Wunder (1922) - Walther Ruttmann

Father and Daughter - michael dudok by Nusquam

Matter Fisher by Moth

Synopsis:
A serendipitous journey in which a lone fisher is united with a form of estranged matter.

Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. by Nokia HD

'Gulp' is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.

INJECT EXTRACT 02 by Herman Kolgen

PREVIEW FROM HERMAN KOLGEN
PERFORMANCE _ INJECT _
WWW.KOLGEN.NET
2010 Ars Electronica honored mention for this project

A human body is injected in a cistern. Over the course of 45 minutes, the pressure of the liquid exerts upon him multiple neurosensorial transformations. From his epidermal fiber to his nervous system, he reacts to influxes of viscosity in this liquid chamber. His cortex, lac king oxygen, gradually loses all notions of the real. Like a human guinea pig: a matter-body whose psychologica l states are the object of kinetik tableaux, of singular temporal spaces.

Metronomy - The Bay by David Wilson Creative

Protect me From What I Want - Part 1 of 3

a documentary about Jenny Holzer, shot in Rio de Janeiro, 1999. Directed by Marcello Dantas




mind ur own ...
all her work are inspiration for all artist ...

Protect me From What I Want - Part 2 of 3

Documentary about Jenny Holzer shot in Rio de Janeiro 1999. Directed by Marcello Dantas



jenny holzer


until january 23, 2005
kukje gallery, seoul, korea
http://www.kukjegallery.com


---
jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally
called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others
are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans.
the sayings include:

‘a man can't know what it's like to be a mother’,

‘men are not monogamous by nature’,

‘money creates taste’,

‘a lot of professionals are crackpots’,

‘enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway’,

‘freedom is a luxury not a necessity’,

‘don't place too much trust in experts’.


her medium, whether formulated as a t-shirt, as a plaque,
or as an LED sign, always is writing,
and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work.
starting in the late 1970s with the posters that jenny holzer
pasted on buildings in new york city, and up to her recent
xenon projections on landscape and architecture,
her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor,
kindness, and moral courage.


often holzer's work presents both explicit content and
minimalist aesthetics that make profound statements about
the world of advertising and consumer society today.
by presenting an assemblage of phrases that mimic advertising
slogans through vehicles commonly used in advertising,
such as electric billboards, coffee mugs, and commercials
on cable and network television, holzer questions what
our eyes can see and what we can't see in media,
whether consumers today have any real control over the
information that is provided to them.

going back to her years as a painter at the rhode island
school of design, holzer says she was influenced by the
‘clean, simple variations’ of minimalist aesthetics in artists
like donald judd, mark rothko and morris louis.

in her seoul exhibit, the artist has carefully arranged the
atmosphere of the gallery display so that viewers
‘won't feel as if they are in las vegas’
as they enter the room installed with electronic screens.
the meditative character of her art comes through with
the installation of two sandstone benches carved with
the artist's writings, which exist both as chairs and as
art pieces by themselves.




---
jenny holzer
was born 1950 in gallipolis, ohio, usa.
she received a BFA in painting and printmaking from ohio
university in 1972 and an MFA in painting from the RISD /
rhode island school of design in 1975.
holzer began to use text in her work while attending
ohio university. an abstract painter while at RISD,
she shifted to public projects and works that were
‘sublime and impressive’.
jenny holzer moved to new york city in 1976 and
enrolled in the whitney museum independent study program,
there she created the first ‘truisms’, in a first stage as a
series of one-liners on posters pasted anonymously around
the city. later she did installations with electronic LED displays
that are attentive to architecture, monuments and memorials;
and since 1996, large-scale xenon projections of text
on buildings and landscape. she has realized these xenon
projections in florence, rome, venice, rio de janeiro, buenos aires,
oslo, paris, bordeaux, berlin, washington, new york city and miami.
holzer received the leone d’oro for her american pavilion
installation at the 1990 venice biennale, was the recipient of the
2002 kaiserring from the city of goslar, germany,
and was awarded the public art network annual award by
americans for the arts in 2004.
she lives and works in hoosick, new york.

Video: The New Wave | Part 1 of 6

1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Part 1:
Introduction & Overview | Angel St. Nunez | TV TV

Video: The New Wave | Part 2 of 6

1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Part 2:
Otto Piene | Douglas Davis | Jim Wiseman | Dan Sandin| Richard Teifelbaum | William Etra | Willard Rosenquist | Bob Lewis | Rudi Stern | John Godfrey | Ron Hays | Stephen Beck, Warner Jepson (Introduction)

Video: The New Wave | Part 3 of 6 uplod by : jerrywaynewhitejr

1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Part 3:
Stephen Beck, Warner Jepson (Continued from Part 2) | Walter Wright | Eugene Grayson Mattingly | Frank Gillette| Steina Vasulka

Video: The New Wave | Part 4 of 6 jerrywaynewhitejr

1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Part 4:
Paul Kos | Gerald Byerley | Joan Jonas | Joan Jonas, Richard Serra

Video: The New Wave | Part 5 of 6 upload by : jerrywaynewhitejr

1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Part 5:
Peter Campus (Including what appears to be his full work entitled "Three Transitions")

Video: The New Wave | Part 6 of 6 upload by jerrywaynewhitejr

viva le video ...vertovian



1973 WGBH Boston Public Television program exploring the relatively new area of video art. The program highlights several video artists exploring the video medium and pushing its boundries, with a focus on artists working with video synthesizers.

Under the clouds by Gioacchino Petronicce

These images and these sounds were recorded during a travel from "Toulouse" to "Paris", and from "Paris" to "Martinique". We see the North and the South of "Martinique", the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, during the rainy season in July, 2011.


i always remember this city ,.. oui.. paris

Jean-François (2009) by tom haugomat & bruno mangyoku

A short film directed by Bruno MANGYOKU and Tom HAUGOMAT

PressPausePlay - Animated Content by Stuart Langfield plus

"A film about hope, fear and digital culture"
I created the animated content for the PressPausePlay documentary. The animations help to break up the interviews and illustrate key scenes discussed throughout the film. Above is the Seth Godin excerpt, lots more to come once the film is on general release.

It's screening at various festivals globally, find out where here:
presspauseplay.com/​entries/​113-more-screenings/​

Texture: Donna Brass by Matt Brass

I have always been close with my family but I was surprised by how much I learned during this brief interview. Not just about my mother but about myself and the compulsive/creative behaviors I possess. When my wife saw this she said "that's you."

Body Image PSA by Vianca Lugo

to all of us ..cherrs

Elvis Presley- King Creole by Jörn Peper

A Shadowpuppet- Animation to Elvis Presley´s "King Creole". -Some night I came up with this silly shadow-puppet resemblance to entertain my friends. Seemed silly enough to make a video of it. I shot my hand in front of a green solid in my monitor. Then attached those to Vector- Drawings of the bodies.



hahaha.. i loveee Elvis P ..

Various passing of time by Sasha Aleksandrov

For some people the time passes quickly, for others the time passes slowly.



mmm fast and slow two word that i like... nice to see quickly image and the versus one by using a old jobless man. too naked to see the imaginary scene.

78RPM - MP3 | 70 Years of Revolutionary Protest Music by Dan Flynn

College typographic project celebrating popular song lyrics over the past century. Being a type project the use of imagery was discouraged. I chose to detail some of the most powerful protest songs from the 1930's - 2000's, Bille Holiday's Strange Fruit (1939), Buffalo Springfield's For What Its Worth (1968) and Radiohead's Ideoteque (2000).

Magnitka ver. 4.02 - operator reel by Sasha Aleksandrov

Shot in Magnitogorsk. The footage was edited in precise correspondence with the sequence of technical operations in sheet metal manufacturing at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Factory. The result is a serious film with deeply transcendent subject matter.


mmm nice work

The Big Lebowski Typography by Koos Dekker

Scene from the The Big Lebowski in Typography. Thanks to Jesus Quintana, The Dude and Walter Sobchak.
Animation & design: Koos Dekker

i love this work.. its feels really documentaries ... its brings to the 2 man who was talking in the video, the naration was built to create a point of view for the Typography.

In This City by Salomon

Spiegelbilder - Videoinstallation by urbanscreen

Contemplation and self-assessment in times of hypertrends and overinformation. To get a picture and to stay in the picture as two antagonism of the modern age.

Spiegelbilder was shown in the Krypta of the St. Petri Dom Bremen during the Ev. Kirchentag in May 2009.
Length: 25min

copy from marisantosa

hahha
http://marisantosa.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/copy-transform-combine/
i just try this funny http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/builder/?cs=ihnbm&ssid=ta-demo&theme=
taken from my friend marisa blog ..is so funny
how you can make video by only click ... footage is taken from your image in your Facebook, picasa, or any social network site.
slideshow was part of video. an how easy the editing was taken.. so funny

are this a new media ? ....

Journey Slideshow: Adel’s trip to Surabaya, Java, Indonesia was created by TripAdvisor. See another Surabaya slideshow. Create a free slideshow with music from your travel photos.

Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art by PopTech

Artist Zach Lieberman uses interactive media to inspire - and explore the relationship between technology, performance, and the body. His recent projects include an open-source eye-tracking system that allows disabled artists to draw using their eyes and a performance that includes drawn sketches that react to a visitors' touch.

Mirrored by The sons of Stan Brakhage

A short film about the artistic creation.

Amateur - video by : Lasse Gjertsen

now we can see the different .. from the first video before this one.. and this one
when music was found in cinema ..Sergei Eisenstein was said that music change the real cinema ...
question is ..do music change video ?
video create new music style, every one can be an artist in 20 minute (warhol).

hope u enjoy the video.. thanks chers




i've taken my hyperactive editing style a step further! Hope you'll enjoy it!
And now; to you people saying I'm ripping off Michel Gondry: I've seen his video with the drumkit called "Drumb and Drumber". It's here on youtube somewhere. His video and my video are different because of one very important detail: Gondy filmed himself doing drumming sequences and LOOPED them, while I hit each drum and piano chord seperately and edited them together. This is a very big difference if you have any idea about video editing. Actually, there is a short sequence of 5 sec where he does cut the beat, but I didn't notice this until recently, which makes me an idiot. But I still don't think it's a rip off, only similar. SO one question to you guys: If I write a song which includes the words "love" and "tight", am I ripping off The Beatles?? :P I met Michel Gondry in Milan, Italy and asked him. He didn't really give me a clear answer, but it seemed like he thought so. Either that or he didn't like my clothes. Lol.

Diego Stocco - Experibass by Diego Stocco

Few weeks ago I visited a luthier looking for instruments parts, I had an idea in mind for an instrument I wanted to build. My curiosity was to hear the sound of violin, viola and cello strings amplified through the body of a double bass. I came up with a quadruple-neck experimental "something" that I thought to call Experibass.

To play it I used cello and double bass bows, a little device I built with fishing line and hose clamps, a paintbrush, a fork, spoons, a kick drum pedal and a drum stick. I hope you'll like it!
Thanks to luthier John Wu for providing me the parts, even though I warned him that I was probably going to create a "monster" : )



i guess the editing of this video help a lot ... so ..
question is the sound was created by the instrument or the video ?.... viva le video
video remix the sound to become ....life, lite or lost ..

enjoy the music after all ... ( i copy, i embed, i combine, i see )

L'homme 100 têtes by JUL & MAT All rights reserved by JUL & MAT

All rights reserved L'homme 100 têtes
Demandes de diffusion, ou utilisation du concept : juletmat.fr
Music: believedigital.fr/​p/​3661585033189/​1179/​fr/​
Playing off the theme of a recent video contest, « Transformation : Live and React », JUL & MAT (France) explored the human face, the most exposed and personal part of the human body. Their dynamic portrayal of 1000 and one faces is a mosaic of portraits and emotions that plays off of the power of faces seen close up. Julien Fargo composed the melody that encapsulates the film.

Samurai by Phil Shoebottom

question is > are 3d was a future for cinema ?

Half by Alex Bohs

Starring:
Chloe Howcroft
Emily Deering
Melody Snyder

Written, Directed & Edited by:
Alex Bohs
Cinematography by:
Mark Johnson



yup.. this post is to represent the other post about split screen ... so wonderful to see to image with same felling but sometimes become a opposite or become love .
its just fun to see imagenery that can bring us to another meaning.
thanks for all you that push record button.. viva le video socialita.
and many thanks to all the video that i have been embed to this blog.

hope u enjoys guys,
best regard

adel

El barón Royo_documental. by Alfonso Marti­nez

Josep María Royo es un reconocido aviador de ochenta y cuatro años que ha recorrido el mundo y que tiene a cuestas muchas historias y aventuras. Hombre de carácter alegre e intrépido que a pesar de su edad sigue apasionado por la aviación y por la Bücker Jugmann, su máquina favorita.

enjoy the video from our friend ..
the english synopsis : yeay thanks alfonso ..

Josep Maria Royo is a renowned 84 year old aviator who has travelled all around the world and whose memories are full of
histories and adventures. Man of cheerful and fearless character that despite his age still feels passionate about aviation
and his Bücker Jugmann.
We follow him on his flight routine listening his young age stories and observing his love for his machine.

note .. new media. and a video : (Splitscreen: A Love Story by JW Griffiths )

Having proposed a list of the key diffirences between new and old media, I now would like to address other potential candidates, which I have ommitted.The following are some of the popularly held notions about the difference between new and old media which this section will subject to scrutiny:

1. New media is analog media converted to a digital representation. In contrast to analog media which is continuos, digitally encoded media is discrete.

2. All digital media (text, still images, visual or audio time data, shapes, 3D spaces) share the same the same digital code. This allows diffirent media types to be displayed using one machine, i.e., a computer, which acts as a multimedia display device.

3. New media allows for random access. In contrast to film or videotape which store data sequentially, computer storage devices make possible to access any data element equally fast.

4. Digitization involves inevitable loss of information. In contrast to an analog representation, a digitally encoded representation contains a fixed amount of information.

5. In contrast to analog media where each successive copy loses quality, digitally encoded media can be copied endlessly without degradation.

6. New media is interactive. In contrast to traditional media where the order of presentation was fixed, the user can now interact with a media object. In the process of interaction the user can choose which elements to display or which paths to follow, thus generating a unique work. Thus the user becomes the co-author of the work.

Cinema as New Media
If we place new media new media within a longer historical perspective, we will see that many of these principles are not unique to new media and can be already found in older media technologies. I will illustrate this by using the example of the technology of cinema.

(1). “New media is analog media converted to a digital representation. In contrast to analog media which is continuos, digitally encoded media is discrete.”
Indeed, any digital representation consists from a limited number of samples. For example, a digital still image is a matrix of pixels — a 2D sampling of space. However, as I already noted, cinema was already based on sampling — the sampling of time. Cinema sampled time twenty four times a second.

So we can say that cinema already prepared us for new media. All that remained was to take this already discrete representation and to quantify it. But this is simply a mechanical step; what cinema accomplished was a much more difficult conceptual break from the continuous to the discrete.

Cinema is not the only media technology which, emerging towards the end of the nineteenth century, employed a discrete representation. If cinema sampled time, fax transmission of images, starting in 1907, sampled a 2D space; even earlier, first television experiments (Carey, 1875; Nipkow, 1884) already involved
sampling of both time and space.36 However, reaching mass popularity much earlier than these other technologies, cinema is the first to make the principle of a discrete representation of the visual a public knowledge.

(2). “All digital media (text, still images, visual or audio time data, shapes, 3D spaces) share the same the same digital code. This allows diffirent media types to be displayed using one machine, i.e., a computer, which acts as a multimedia display device.”
Before computer multimedia became commonplace around 1990, filmmakers were already combining moving images, sound and text (be it intertitles of the silent era or the title sequences of the later period) for a whole century. Cinema thus was the original modern "multimedia." We can also much earlier examples of multiple-media displays, such as Medieval illuminated manuscripts which combined text, graphics and representational images.

(3). “New media allows for random access. In contrast to film or videotape which store data sequentially, computer storage devices make possible to access any data element equally fast.”
For example, once a film is digitized and loaded in the computer memory, any frame can be accessed with equal ease. Therefore, if cinema sampled time but still preserved its linear ordering (subsequent moments of time become subsequent frames), new media abandons this "human-centered" representation altogether — in order to put represented time fully under human control. Time is mapped onto two-dimensional space, where it can be managed, analyzed and manipulated more easily.

Such mapping was already widely used in the nineteenth century cinema machines. The Phenakisticope, the Zootrope, the Zoopraxiscope, the Tachyscope, and Marey's photographic gun were all based on the same principle -- placing a number of slightly different images around the perimeter of a circle. Even more striking is the case of Thomas Edison's first cinema apparatus. In 1887 Edison and his assistant, William Dickson, began experiments to adopt the already proven technology of a phonograph record for recording and displaying of motion pictures. Using a special picture-recording camera, tiny pinpoint-size photographs were placed in spirals on a cylindrical cell similar in size to the phonograph cylinder.

A cylinder was to hold 42,000 images, each so small (1/32 inch wide)
that a viewer would have to look at them through a microscope.37 The storage capacity of this medium was twenty-eight minutes -- twenty-eight minutes of
continuous time taken apart, flattened on a surface and mapped into a two- dimensional grid. (In short, time was prepared to be manipulated and re-ordered, something which was soon to be accomplished by film editors.)

KillYourIdol.mov by fluxcup (bandung)

hahahah... yups lets kill our idol ...
i like this video.. when audio represent new meaning from the originality (dub)

Blik by Polder Animation

A young boy moves to a new neighbourhood and falls in love for the first time, with the much older girl next door.

Visit us at polderanimation.com


mmm i love the colour ,....

MEGALOMANIA by Jonathan Gales

Megalomania perceives the city in total construction. The built environment is explored as a labyrinth of architecture that is either unfinished, incomplete or broken. Megalomania is a response to the state of infrastructure and capital, evolving the appearance of progress into the sublime.



video kota : yup a good video city..
but i was distrack by the quet sound at the video..
jakarta, berlin, paris new york, LA, Rio, San Paolo, Bangkok, Hanoi.... u can fell the sound ...

Protest Zapping by Max Moertl

See how a weird location changing remote control takes a lazy surfer and a confused seagull on the journey of their lifes, as part of the 2011 Protest Obstacle Series, where surfers are being hindered to enjoy their most urgent need: riding the waves!

Beet Cake by Tiger in a Jar

mmmm smells good .....
i like the colour... its feels like home..
best regard from jakarta and bali ...

Everything is a Remix Part 3 by Kirby Ferguson

Creativity isn't magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen.

To support this project please visit: everythingisaremix.info/​donate/​

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus by Patrick Clair

An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia's ABC1

Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair patrickclair.com
Written by: Scott Mitchell

Use Somebody by inti calfat

A short film featuring the struggles of a doomed couple.

Official music video for ‘Use Somebody’ by Kings Of Leon, performed by Scala & Kolacny brothers. scalachoir.com

Director: Inti Calfat
Scenario: Inti Calfat & Hugo Van Laere
DOP: Bjorn Charpentier
Producer: Frederik Zaman & Mitchel Elsen, TRS
Production manager: Thierry Vandenbussche (outlandish)
Production Assistant: Mike Madelein
Production Assistant: Tatiana De Pret
1st camera Assisitant: Joris Rymen
2nd camera Assistant: Jolien De Graeve
Chef Electro: Peter Van Den Bosch
Styling: Jan Dendievel & Xavier
Make-up: Marie Brabant
Production Design: Olya Tsoraeva
Decor: Simon Van Laar
Special Effects: Martin De La Vallée
Editor & composits: Hans Desmet
Grading: Veerle Zeelmaeckers
Sounddesign: Gregory Caron

Cast:
Wife: Marijke Pinoy
Husband: Hans Van Cauwenberghe
Prostitutes: Dolores Bouckaert, Leen Van Dommel, Elke Shari.

mmmmm such a nice romantic view ... i love this video ..
the sound and the story was blend so well ... the fact and the fantasy was simply mute by them self.. salut for the 2 actor and the director.

viva le video socialita

WIM•BLE•DON by BRYANKU

Wimbledon Championships
122nd Edition
Men's Final (Final Set)

Federer v. Nadal

wow i like this nice idea for making new visual in our head ... love to see this work .. simple but more and more that i get from the visual that was coming create by my mind.
yup ... now record your self then society

Swish Cut by Jacob Fredrickson

I quite like this editing effect.
Simple, effective. Fun too.
SHOT WITH: Canon T3i
EDITED WITH: iMovie
—Jacob

Memory Tapes "Yes I Know" by Najork

from the forthcoming album PLAYER PIANO
out July 4 in Europe, Something In Construction
July 5 in US, Carpark
July 4 in Australia, Inertia

memorytap.es
direction and post: Eric Epstein najork.net

Sodom and Gomorrah by chris caliman

Short-Mood-Documentary
by Chris Caliman
2011
Canon 7D

Music: Gustavo Santaolalla - Can Light Be Found in the Darkness?

Agbogbloshie is a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations. Often referred to as a "digital dumping ground", millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year in Agbogbloshie
Processing electronic waste presents a serious health threat to workers at Agbogbloshie. The fumes released from the burning of the plastics and metals used in electronics are composed of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Workers often inhale lead, cadmium,dioxins, furans, phthalates and brominated flame retardants.
Exposure to these fumes is especially hazardous to children, as these toxins are known to inhibit the development of the reproductive system, the nervous system and the brain.
This short Mood-Documentary is recutted from the material of the german Documentary "Die Kinder der Toxic City" which i shot this year as a second dop with Jürgen Steiger as the first dop with Christian Bock
-director- in Ghana.

DanseDance by Julien Vallée

Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time?

We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths.

This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings.

Ogilvy Asia

Nobody Beats The Drum - Grindin' by Nobody Beats The Drum

Stop Motion Animation 'Grindin''

Director: Rogier van der Zwaag
Music: Grindin' by Nobody Beats The Drum
(available on the EP 'Focus' out on Satan's Circus; vl.am/​mB9 )

check the making of:

youtube.com/​watch?v=XBqxjvDAAWE&feature=channel

Zero by Zealous Creative

Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.

These New Puritans - Elvis

"body in the idol"

Thursday by Matthias Hoegg

An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts.

Directed by Matthias Hoegg at the Royal College of Art, London, 2010

Nominated for a BAFTA for Short Animation

KCO meets CocoRosie - Beautiful Boyz

sepertinya mereka sangat sadar akan kebudayaan visual khususnya "peradaban cahaya". seperti bersenandung mesra di gemerlapnya kota berbumbu tata cahaya yang mengeliat mata.
spektakuler !!!

adzan magrib in tv indonesia

every turn of the day you can watch it on television, the picture is almost similar. simultaneously

"panggilan wajib untuk masyarakat kota yang [kadang]membosankan"

Trillions by MAYAnMAYA

SASHA GREY by V Magazine

“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from the cues that have associated Sasha with her previous career as a performance artist working within the adult film world.” –Richard Phillips

My 60 Second Documentary About The Stuff What Is In This HOUSE by Ryd Cook

09/03/11 - The film has been selected for the Disposable Film Festival 2011! Competitive program 24th March 2011 (disposablefilmfest.com/​events/​) come and see it, along with loads of other Disposable films! I'm gonna be there too!

It's also screening in Chicago at the DIY Film Fest as part of the Chicago Zine Fest on 26th March 2011! As is one of my other films "Waiting..."

25/01/11 - The making of this doco is featured in this documentary that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16/01/11, you will hear a different take on the dining room scene: explodingcinema.org/​explodingR4.mp3

22/11/10 - This is the very much not needed, and un-anticipated sequel to MY 60 SECOND DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE STUFF WHAT IS IN THIS ROOM. You might want to watch that first, and then this one might make more sense (very possibly still wont). here's that one: vimeo.com/​3855714

shot by
Ryd Cook
Josh Cook
Thom Dobbin

radiohead - no surprised

"A job that slowly kills you! You look so tired-unhappy, bring down the government! They don't speak for us! I'll take a quiet life... No alarms and no surprises, please! Silent silence! This is my final fit, my final bellyache! Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden!
No alarms and no surprises, please!"

No alarms and no surprises, but not for this video is so surprised imaginary,.

George Foreman sings Impossible Dream upload by : Sampson678

i like this one ... hahahha..

Chapter 3: The Beach by M. Keegan Uhl

WINNER! Official Chapter 3 for Canon's The Story Beyond the Still contest.
Contest home page: vimeo.com/​groups/​beyondthestill
Chapter 1: vimeo.com/​8595246 Chapter 2: vimeo.com/​9394817

Written & Directed by M. Keegan Uhl, mkeeganuhl.com

Oedipus ...starring vegetables (2004) short film in HD by jason wishnow

The story of Oedipus, in 8 minutes, performed by vegetables, in the tradition of Ben Hur. A sword and salad epic, in classic CinemaScope. Featuring a Potato, a Tomato, Broccoli, Garlic, and Billy Dee Williams as the Bartender.

It took two years, a volunteer crew of more than 100 people, and post production resources donated by Industrial Light + Magic and Skywalker Sound. One of the first stop-motion films shot on a digital still camera. Official Selection: 70+ film festivals on nearly every continent, including Sundance, Seattle, São Paulo, Rome, and Hong Kong. Acquired by the Sundance Channel.

...you can also watch the behind-the-scenes documentary: vimeo.com/​19151071

No More Questions! by StoryCorps

Kay Wang was a strong-willed grandmother who was reluctantly taken to a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. Though Kay resisted, she still had stories to tell—from disobeying her mother and rebuffing suitors while growing up in China to late-life adventures as a detective for Bloomingdale’s department store. Kay passed away just weeks after that interview, and her son and granddaughter returned to StoryCorps to remember her gentler side, which she kept to herself.

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Backgrounds: Bill Wray
Producers: Mike Rauch & Lizzie Jacobs
Art Direction: The Rauch Brothers & Bill Wray
Animation: Tim Rauch
Audio Produced by: Katie Simon & Michael Garofalo
Music:
Fredrik

Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show by La Blogotheque

"For days we were searching for hangars, warehouses and big empty loft spaces. We got the opposite : it was incongruous, it was bloody exciting. We were going to shoot Battles in a rococo style lounge in The Hotel de Ville, the magnificent city hall and mayor’s office in the centre of Paris."

Follow the cops back home

serangan kotak hitam "sadar dan ter-tidak sadar-an", yang selalu membuat kita terjerembab dalam mimpi yang dikonstruk oleh kaum pemilik "uang dan kuasa".

pulanglah kerumah !!

Drawing Inspiration by Wesley Louis

'A wino, resigned and stuck in his ways, finds mysterious sketches on the park bench that he visits every day. As these pictures stir his thoughts, he begins to notice the world around him and to reflect upon his own place within it. He meets a young boy whose innocent encouragement helps to release him from his self destructive social withdrawal and unlocks a part of his character that had been long forgotten.'

drawinginspirationproduction.blogspot.com

Shocking new ADI cruelty exposé shames UK circus industry by Animal Defenders

Animal Defenders International has released shocking footage from behind the scenes at the winter quarters of Bobby Roberts Super Circus, which graphically shows violence and confinement of circus animals.

ADI secured footage over a three and a half week period from a camera observing activity in a barn where the animals are kept when not touring, which shows a staggeringly high level of violence and serious animal husbandry flaws. Incidents included Annie (Anne), an elderly, severely arthritic 57 year old elephant being hit with a metal pitchfork and kicked around the face and body 48 times over the period of observation by workers, who are also seen beating and spitting on a camel and beating miniature ponies and horses on numerous occasions.

The disturbing footage also shows Annie constantly chained for the entire period of filming by her front and arthritic back leg with only enough room to take one step forward or backwards. Her chains were only changed to different legs twice, ADI believes this will clearly cause her pain and discomfort. It was noted that the feeding regime was poor.

What makes this case all the more disturbing is that the circus proprietor Bobby Roberts, who has claimed publicly to take good care of Annie as ‘she is a family pet’ and ‘part of the family’, is clearly captured on camera kicking Annie on the trunk, an extremely sensitive part of an elephant’s anatomy, and this is done in front of a worker.

As government prepares to make an announcement within the next few weeks regarding the fate of animal circuses in the UK and makes the decision to implement a total ban or self regulation, Animal Defenders International believes that this new evidence provides them with only one option – a total ban on the use of wild animals in circuses.

Jan Creamer, ADI’s Chief Executive said: “Annie’s tragic story symbolizes the plight of circus animals and is a shocking indictment of the circus industry at a key time as government considers a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. We have presented successive governments with extensive evidence from our undercover investigations over the years into UK circuses that proves conclusively that routine violence and deprivation is endemic within the industry.

“To Lord Henley, the Minister responsible, we say enough is enough. It is now time for him to act decisively to stop this appalling suffering. It is time for him to enact a total ban once and for all.”

Government’s own public consultation in March 2010 found that an overwhelming 94.5% of the public want to see a ban on wild animals in circuses and over 170 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 403 calling on the Government to ban wild animal acts. A recent parliamentary poll conducted by ADI found that 63% of MPs would like to see a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses and only 14% disagreed.

ADI has now exposed the shocking abuse of animals in UK circuses from several random undercover investigations over the last fifteen years. Only recently, in 2009, the beating of elephants at the Great British Circus was exposed and now in 2011 Bobby Roberts Super Circus shows that this is a way of life at the circus. A clear pattern has been proven and this time the government needs to act.

Tim Phillips, ADI’s Campaigns Director said: “The release of this footage stops any attempt by UK government to ignore the will of the public. It is clear that self-regulation is not an option in this industry.

“Once again, we have exposed that cruelty and deprivation is rife within the circus industry. We have also established that self regulation is not a viable option as the government would be asking circuses like Bobby Roberts or the Great British Circus to regulate themselves. That would be a farce, and the animals will continue to suffer abuse."

And to the circus industry, ADI says enough is enough.

Jan said: “I have no doubt that it will be claimed that this is an ‘exception’ and/or that the owner was not aware of the abuse, but the evidence is now conclusive. Each time we expose the cruelty, the circuses give a similar range of excuses.

“ADI has been concerned for Annie’s welfare for many years and have followed her tragic plight. Poor Annie has been with the circus for over 50 years since she was baby, having been caught in the wild and torn from her family. Elephants are social and extremely intelligent so this has been a living hell for her. At last we have managed to expose this circus operation for the cruel farce that it is and never again can Roberts preach about animal welfare and how well his animals are cared for.”

Tim concluded: “Our latest investigation shows how animals like elephants suffer in the travelling circus. In the name of entertainment they are beaten, jabbed with hooks and hit with pitchforks, chained up for hours every day, and pushed into metal boxes each week where they remain for hours on end whilst the circus moves to another site. And when they are meant to be resting in their winter quarters the abuse and cruelty continues.

“The public wants to see a ban, Parliament wants a ban, animal protection groups want a ban. A ban is the only way to put an end, once and for all, to this deplorable violence and deprivation, and government must act now.”
The Bobby Roberts Super Circus began its UK tour on the 24 March. Potential visitors are being asked to vote with their feet and stay away.

ADI is consulting with its lawyers to see what the potential is for legal action.

Experience Mobile Mobile by James Théophane Jnr

Lost Boys (an Interactive Agency) invited me to do something for their agency Christmas card.

We took this as an opportunity to reinterpret the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space. 'Mobile Mobile' is a six metre circumference interactive sculpture, and signature piece for the entrance of the Lost Boys London Brick Lane studio.

To cut a long story short, after a company-wide upgrade the agency had a lot of old mobiles gathering dust. We took these, built and hoisted a gigantic interactive chandelier/mobile that plays Christmas jingles in their reception.

To add a little xmas spice to the mix, anyone could go online, compose and play their own jingle (and enjoy annoying the hell out of people waiting around in the reception). This was achieved by playing the thing live, using your computer keyboard from a web browser.

Mobile Mobile being played by an anonymous online user: vimeo.com/​8074999

Mobile Mobile reacting to a Tweet: vimeo.com/​8115997

Mobile Mobile being played by hand: vimeo.com/​8354782

V.city-Iraq : Theatre of War by Richard Mosse

Shot in Saddam Hussein's hilltop palace in the mountains overlooking the River Tigris, Theatre of War is a slow, virtually static video piece redolent of classical history painting. Audio was recorded at the official US military hand-over ceremony at the nearby city of Saniya. A mullah's prayer for unity among Arabs is spoken, after which the pan-Arab national anthem, Mawtini (My Homeland) is played, emphasizing Arab national solidarity and a pan-Arab territory. Made in Iraq in March 2009.

Cinematography and Editing by Trevor Tweeten

the Upstairs - Matraman

video yang sederhana dari sebuah band asal Jakarta dengan lirik cerdas tentang cerita picisan yang dibungkus apik dengan tema keseharian yang terjadi di sebuah situs pergerakan penduduk ibukota yang cepat.

"pemetaan kota dalam sebuah komposisi yang unik, mengagumkan !!"

The Story Beyond the Still - All Chapters - FINAL COLLABORATIVE FILM by Vincent Laforet

This is the final film being premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on Vimeo simultaneously. It includes all 8 chapters in what Canon is calling the largest online collaborative film contest in history. The final chapter screenplay was written by all 6 chapter winners, directed by Vincent Laforet and photographed by DP Joe Desalvo.

See the other chapter winners separately and learn more about the contest here - vimeo.com/​groups/​beyondthestill

Enjoy!

Break Me by Scott Foley

A video haiku:

She fell like petals
The train would not stop till broke
Break me, break me, please.

5 syllables (5 second shot)
7 syllables (7 second shot)
5 syllables (5 second shot)

Vimeo Weekend Project: vimeo.com/​blog:412
Scott Foley: flavors.me/​scottbfoley

Stay Home by caleb wood

A house at the center is home to dog and cat. The sun shines down, and a day goes by.

degree project at risd2011

WEEKEND / 1967 / jean-luc godard [trafic scene]

"kalian akan mendapatkan pemandangan yang hampir mirip di Jakarta, ya setiap hari, seperti menonton filem-nya di pemutar cakram dirumah yang diulang"

Jean-Luc Godard's kepada Jakarta,.

The PEN Story by PENStory vs オオカミとブタ -Stop Motion with Wolf and Pig-

vs



little box and little box ... and everything its just the same ...

V.city-Rome: Notte Sento (English subtitles) by Daniele Napolitano

A girl misses her train to Milan and is set to wait overnight in Rome until dawn. However, a chance encounter with a guy changes her plans and the night lights of the capital turn into the background to a tender love story. An extraordinary chemistry made of knowing glances and small gestures fills the few instants that separate them both from the sunrise.

Short film made with 4500+ still photographs. Shot with a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Funded by the Seagate Creative Fund in 2008.
Italian language with English subtitles.


here are something that make me remember about "before sunrise" (ethan hawk).. i hope its bring new perspective ...

HONEY OR TAR - CocoRosie

you have one of these faces you never forget. As for the smile!
[reverse power]

V.city-London : Fear/Love by Rob Chiu

Three lives, three identities, three points of view. Set against the harsh backdrop of inner city London, Fear/Love interweaves the lives of three adolescents as they struggle with who they are, who they want to be and who they are becoming.

Directed, Written and Edited by Rob Chiu.

tag for this week is > Video City

Tema minggu ini all post akan mengulas mengenai kejadian-kejadian di kota .. city video. so thanks for visiting dude.

This week's theme is all post about occurrences in the city .. city video..
so thanks for visiting.

best regard

adel pasha

V.city-Jakarta : Waria Bencong Banci di Jakarta Indonesia

http://www.aabentlage.blogspot.com/
EWONG
Film about transvestites in Jakarta, Indonesia:
a beautiful double portret about Nancy and Nuke
and the acceptance of transvestites in the largest Muslim country of the world!

" i think i have to put this documentary on my blog.. nice, about Jakarta and Indonesia.
viva le video .... record your society

Coalition Of The Willing by coalitionfilm

'Coalition of the Willing' is a collaborative animated film and web-based event about an online war against global warming in a 'post Copenhagen' world.

‘Coalition of the Willing’ has been Directed and produced by Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner and crafted by a network of 24 artists from around the world using varied and eclectic film making techniques. Collaborators include some of the world’s top moving image talent, such as Decoy, World Leaders and Parasol Island.

The film offers a response to the major problem of our time: how to galvanize and enlist the global publics in the fight against global warming. This optimistic and principled film explores how we could use new Internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social revolution, 'Coalition of the Willing' makes a compelling case for the new online activism and explains how to hand the fight against global warming to the people.

forum lenteng

Forum Lenteng 2003 – 2008

Akhirnya, sekarang Juli 2008. Sudah lima tahun Forum Lenteng berdiri. Forum yang didirikan oleh para mahasiswa jurnalistik/komunikasi dan pekerja seni ini telah menjadi ruang diskusi dan kerja kreatif kawan-kawan mahasiswa dan pekerja kreatif muda tentang persoalan sosial, politik dan kebudayaan. Untuk sebuah organisasi, usia lima tahun bukanlah usia yang muda tapi juga bukan juga usia yang dewasa. Forum Lenteng adalah forum yang sangat cair, baru dalam dua tahun terakhir bentuk organisasinya dan pengurusnya mulai berjalan dengan lebih terorganisir. Sebelumnya forum ini lebih seperti KELOMPENCAPIR (Kelompok Pendengar Pembicara dan Pirsawan) jaman Orde Baru, yang tidak mempunyai bentuk yang ajek.

Pada Juli 2003, dari diskusi sederhana di halaman rumah, Forum Lenteng menggagas untuk memproduksi proyek pertamanya yaitu Massroom Project—sebuah proyek video dokumenter tentang kota Jakarta yang berjalan selama delapan bulan. Kompilasi ini menjadi pijakan awal bersama kawan-kawan di forum dalam membuat program-program selanjutnya. Hal ini dipicu dari banyaknya respon yang positif terhadap video dokumenter ini, baik dari pemirsa di Indonesia maupun International (dari tahun 2004 hingga 2007, Massroom Project masuk dalam ajang kompetisi dan special screening di berbagai festival dunia diantaranya; Obehausen, Bilbao, Sao Paolo, Mumbai, Durban, London, New York, Rotterdam dan berbagai pameran contemporary art dunia).

Berangkat dari pengalaman Massroom Project, Forum Lenteng mencoba mencari bentuk yang pas dalam memulai program-programnya. Sambil berjalan, kami menemukan bahwa yang paling penting dalam forum ini adalah bagaimana membedah/menganalisa fenomena sosial budaya dengan menggunakan media audio visual dan fotografi sebagai alatnya. Dari sini lahir beberapa program diantaranya Videopoem Project, Video Otobiografi, Jeda Photograhy Project, Melody Fair-Proyek Dokumenter Musik, Label Project—Proyek Fotografi Fasyen, Cerpen untuk Filem dan Filem untuk Filem. Setiap proyek yang dijalankan oleh forum selalu membutuhkan waktu yang panjang, sekitar empat bulan paling minimal. Hal ini dikarenakan waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk riset, diskusi dan produksi yang memang mengharuskan kami untuk menghabiskan waktu berminggu-minggu. Ada beberapa program yang pada akhirnya tidak sampai produksi seperti proyek Video Otobiografi yang berhenti pada hasil diskusi para partisipanya saja. Ada juga proyek yang masih berjalan produksi hingga sekarang meskipun sudah hampir dua tahun berjalan. Begitulah cara kerja Forum Lenteng yang menghidupi forum ini dari sumbangan para anggotanya dan para donator.

Selain menjalankan proyek internal di lingkungan Forum Lenteng, forum ini juga melakukan berbagai workshop dan pelatihan pembuatan film pendek dan video dokumenter ke beberapa daerah di komunitas-komunitas seni dan kelompok kreatif muda sebagai sebuah usaha persebaran ide membedah/menganalisa fenomena sosial dan budaya dengan menggunakan medium audio visual. Dalam program workshop ini, Forum Lenteng bekerjasama dengan komunitas-komunitas diberbagai daerah dan organisasi nirlaba lainnya, baik dalam pengorganisasian maupun menjadi paritsipan dalam workshop/pelatihan yang dilakukan Forum Lenteng.

Pada 2008 ini, Forum Lenteng memulai melakukan pengorganisasian yang lebih terukur. Saat ini Forum Lenteng mempunyai beberapa devisi program antara lain; workshop/lokakarya, penelitian pengembangan dan dokumentasi, penerbitan (Jurnal Footage: www.jurnalfootage.net), dan produksi. Pembagian devisi ini dibentuk untuk kerja yang lebih efektif dalam menjalankan forum yang sampai saat ini mempunyai anggota dua puluh enam orang anggota aktif.

Demikianlah sedikit tentang lima tahun Forum Lenteng. Kompilasi Cerpen untuk Filem merupakan proyek pertama forum yang berdasarkan fiksi. Sebelumnya Forum Lenteng dalam membuat proyeknya selalu melalui pendekatan dokumenter, baik untuk filem/video maupun fotografi. Dari proyek ini Forum Lenteng belajar banyak tentang pembacaan karya sastra dengan berbagai perspektif ilmu-ilmu sosial dan budaya. Pembongkaran kode-kode dalam karya sastra, khususnya cerpen, memberikan kami peluang untuk menginterpretasikanya secara persoanal dan menjadikan inspirasi dalam memproduksi karya filem. Melalui proses dan diskusi yang panjang, kode-kode baru muncul dari para sutradara/penulis filem-filem dalam kompilasi Cerpen untuk Filem. Karena tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa kode sastra dalam filem mempunyai cara yang berbeda dalam menterjemahkannya. Ada ikatan-ikatan yang begitu kompleks dalam filem yang membuatnya jadi spesifik. Inilah mainan baru yang digemari oleh kawan-kawan di Forum Lenteng saat ini.

Semoga kompilasi Cerpen untuk Filem ini memberikan peluang kepada kita untuk melihat filem dengan cara yang berbeda. Kami percaya bahwa eksperimentasi dalam proyek ini akan memunculkan kritik dari pemirsa. Forum Lenteng sangat terbuka untuk menerima kritik. Selama ini filem kita sangat minim “kritik pedas”. Padahal kritik adalah sesuatu penting dalam perkembangan wacana filem dan kebudayaan kita. Untuk itu marilah kita kita saling mengkritik dan membuat sesuatu. Karena itulah yang menjadikan wacana kebudayaan kita terasa hidup dan bergairah.

Salam

Hafiz

Ketua Forum Lenteng