a brand new year

here it comes. 2009.
for a better quality and a downloadable version see here

it's a party!

a big thanks to those who sent us their tasety dishes!
and thank you too, those who meant to send some but didn't manage to...
and now, to the table!
(in the spirit of our non-hirarchy policy, the dishes appear in alphabetic order of their makers name)



barbara meyer cesta - ants
(now, how about this for a starter!)




barbara meyer cesta - madonna de saulcy



barbara meyer cesta- still alive




barbara meyer cesta -swiss tsunami




barbara meyer cesta - singing mountain 4274m



A homage to "I'll meet you here", a homage by David Horvitz to Bas Jan Ader from Caleb Engstrom on Vimeo.





cristina ohlmer - Sommerende 2007, ©CO2008




christoph Oertli - bayram




Henry Gwiazda - claudia and paul 7:04 am



Henry Gwiazda - claudia and paul 2:14 am




Henry Gwiazda - in bed with light





Henry Gwiazda - topless with church bell





irina birger - the end of the beginning




jan tichy - the MAM




MaryClare Brzytwa




max sackstein




max sackstein




ran slavin -Alenbi moment




ran slavin - Highway moment




su tomesen - police
The short video Police, shot at Tienanmen square in Beijing, shows a stationary police car at dusk. The blue rotating lights on the car are operating. Slowly some, in first instance curious, policemen appear in the frame.
The video was exhibited during the Videosummer in Petersburg Project Space in Amsterdam. In November Police was nominated for an Award at The One Minutes Award Night 2008 in Paradiso by jury member Hansje van Etten from Holland Doc / VPRO.





su tomesen - scraping
The short video Scraping was shot at Tienanmen square in Beijing shortly before the start of the Olympic Games. Scraping shows a small army of Chinese working at the square. They remove chewing gum and other dirt.
The video was nominated for a One Minute Award at The One Minutes Award Night 2008 in Paradiso by jury member Mieke Bernink of the Filmacademy.



tal sterngast - מכתב מנסיעה מדומה

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pffewh...

anything for desert?
you bet.
coming soon, right on new year's day.

hyperventilation

Panic on the the streets of brussels.
an october storm, 3AM.

the light before the light at the end of the tunnel

currently holding the record for the longest title in this blog, this video was shot in the land of tunnels, august 2008.

stare case

communicating with a typical swiss building at estavayer-le-lac, august 2008.
yes, it was sunny, back then.

Public shower

King Leopold III is enjoying (or not) an intense beauty treatment on a Brussels sunny September day. if you wish to do the same to your favorite monument, consult this first

first snow

it was snowing today in Aalst, but this is not what you see in this video. what you see is what we saw when the light beam of the projector hit the dusty space where we were working. don't let them mislead you, these little ones can be dangerous.

steamdish

we spend the weekend in aalst. it's not really the place to spend your spare time. but since we have to be here (working on our exhibition in netwerk) we're looking for some brighter sides of it. like this one. our favorite spot in town.

november sun

a sunset comme il faut over the ta'anakhim road in the Gilbo'a.
(just arrived in brussels today, so burning sun seems like something we're going to miss for quite a while now...)

vus hertzach?

last friday in Liege airport, 14 hours after departure time.

all together now

the third part of our mechanical music trilogy.
next dish will be a completely different story. umm, we suppose.

from left to right

...and another one from the ballroom.

having a ball

a mechanical dance (yes, that's us, those jerky pixels) at the mechanical music exhibition at the cinquantenaire museum in brussels. the music in the background is played by one of the dance organs. more from these lovely instruments will follow.

speechless

we, too, were wondering what he was saying to our camera. but in fact, he's saying nothing, and still, it was so important for him to say it!
shot in the outskirts of bujumbura when we visited the Batwa people.

happy new dish for the jewish new year

our best and warmest wishes for the new year "TASHSAH" (5769)
with all the respect to blogger, their flv compression suck...
for the real thing, we highly recommend to watch this video in higher resoution HERE

white to red

no, it's not the polish flag, and even polish origins are not to blame. it was a beautiful day here in the lowlands so we took our bikes to get some fresh air in the woods. it was a little too fresh maybe as amir's raynaud demonstrates.

sky crackers

it was a l-o-n-g flight to bujumbura and we had to pass the the time somehow. the stewardess of ethiopian airlines weren't very happy about it. (superstitious, maybe?)
for more not-funny-jokes about airplane food, try here.

atamato

back in the white(?) continent, and the african dishes are being baked, as promised.
it's true what they say, that africa has another pace, that things takes much longer. here's why.
this one is an "end of the workshop thank you" Burundi style.
please don't ask us what it means, we have no idea.

bzzzz

surprise, surprise, the insects in this video are not africans. they are from some light years away, switzerland. so one more video from la corbière before we enter the bujumbura-videos époque.

olympic spirit

here's one round from the thumb wrestling championship last night at la corbiere.
wanna take thumb wrestling further?

waiting for the full pull

no, it's not the midwest but the neat and clean and green switzerland. a great saturday pastime with barbara and rudi and a bunch of hardcore farmers. if we were real video artists we would have made a whole piece out of it. but we are not, we're just tourists. and the link? check this, you can try some online potato peeling here.

in great shape

exactly as expected the swiss air brings out the best of us.

shot yesterday at la corbiere

lucky bastards

another one from the fair.

lullaby

believe it or not, it was a HOT day! we are exhausted. we have a nice dish in the oven, but it's a slow cooking, will be ready, hopefuly, next week. and now, off to sleep.

The Cosmonauts

we went fishing for dishes today at the foire du midi. came back home with a full stomach (and a little headache). more to come.

a stomach churning dish

this one was shot about a year ago in obor market, bucharest, the biggest market in romania.

a musical dish

amir testing the junk machine, at a dorkbot presentation last week at iMal.

back from the wilderness of maramureş

so... i'm back from baia mare and all i brought you is this lousy video. these wild ducks, believe it or not, where swimming peacefully in a beautiful spot between a lake and a forest, just at the edge of the city.

That's right folks, it is very easy to be old

well folks, the title for this post does not necessarily mean that i think this way.
it is just a nice title of a song played by The Violent Husbands, a Belgian group that we like a lot and decided to give them the speech in this week's post.
Effi is in Romania giving another One Minutes video workshop and I am in sunny Brussels and it is the longest day in the year and i am sad because this is the day winter starts taking over.

Next year's ski vacation

A topical post.
shot in August 2003 in Mini Israel
Updated in June 2008

א פערדל

a ferdl hab ich a recht

zitzn iz af im nit shlecht
vi fart men aber avek
az fun farnt iz der ek !

א פערדל האב איך א רעכט
זיצן איז אף אים ניט שלעכט
ווי פארט מען אבער אוועק
אז פון פארנט איז דער עק

to translate, try here

The Wave

This time not the famous mythologic "The Wave" movie, we all remember from the youth movement.

microsleep

too tired. had a busy busy week and here comes another one already.
we're off to sleep.

resurrected armadillium

a touching moment from our bathroom in Tirana, October 2005

on the fly

last week we were in amsterdam, filming the Kunstvlaai API event. that's also why we were a bit late with this week's dish. here's a group portrait of the kunstvlaai pioneers, who prepared the ground for the artists.

independence day lesson

a special dish for the 60th anniversary of israel that will take place next week. featuring the famous independence day hammer in its inflated version (warning: image in the link might hurt some viewers' feelings (aesthetic feelings mainly))

living particles

you just need to look around you, they're always there. these ones are from the botanique garden in bern.

if you're not in casablanca

if you're not in Casablanca these days you won't be able to see our collaborative concert with stephan dunkelman. so here's one track, "stay here", in its single screen version. hopefully soon in a theatre near you.

hadar's magnificent marble shoot

this week for the first time we host somebody else's video. it's hadar sackstein's marble shoot which he built in his room during four hours. we cut out some bits and added subtitles but left most of it intact. the second part is all in-camera-editing and we like it a lot. camera credit goes to max sackstein.

over-saturated gwangju

well don't ask us what it is or what they say. we're talking about gwangju here, we have no idea. this video goes back to 2002, when we were lucky to participate the 4th gwangju biennale. (sorry, the website is nowhere to be found, overran by newer biannales it seems)

plastic bag

Shot on the kitchen table, Tirana, June 2005

energy

wind powered electricity generator deep in the west bank (ancient sousya, south mount Hebron),
march 2008, where we will give a 1minutes video workshop as part of B'TZELEM project "shooting back"

concert (x2)

this weekend we'll be away and next weekend too, so here are two videos of live music for you:



first one is okkervil river playing 'for real' at stuk. yes, yes, we went to Leuven specially for that.




the second is from last november, an authentic improvised swiss coin concert at clara and valerian's place.
(unfortunately we cannot find a link to clara and valerian's work, so here's a link to haus am gern, to whom we owe this acquaintanceship, as well as many other things...)

tip of the day

from our (non existing, but maybe future) series "tales from under the burning sun". shot in august 2004, in israel.
another tale from the series can be seen here.

Torso

another one from our archive, not a great video, but a very stupid sculpture. shot at the Olympic museum, Lausanne, november 2002

vertical trip

yesterday, on the way to amsterdam for a meeting regarding a commissioned documentary about the kustvlaai/API

a teaser

an excerpt from a video for an installation we're working on these days at netwerk. the music is from "when i was wood" of stephan dunkelman, who invited us to add image to his sound projection.

saturday morning shot

July 2004, Domaine de Chamarande, France, a day before our Marathon performance.

sunday morning eruption

shot in sibiu, european capital of culture (romania), may 2007, voice over-ed today.

McCarthy's sleeping beauty

Paul McCarthy's mechanical pig, from the exhibition Head Shop/Shop Head at the SMAK, Gent

al ha'esh

(an alternative soundtrack can be found here)

la bastille

shot on a cold december evening in paris (original sound)