performance
“Sensology” by Michel Gagné (2006)
“The creation of this film was a true spiritual and artistic journey. Sometimes, I felt like I was channeling the images. I did no storyboards and virtually no preliminary work. I animated in a stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second. The shapes revealed themselves as I listened to the music over and over again. The process was intensely focused and required large amount of concentration. I was becoming part of the music and expressing my creativity at its rawest and most primal. Like Kandinski tought us, every shape and sound has a equal vibration in the soul. When Paul Plimley saw a portion of the film for the first time, he said to me with tears in his eyes, “It’s like you read my soul.””
— Michel Gagné
[1973] “Not I” (Samuel Beckett)
“Not I takes place in a pitch black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This light illuminates an actress’s mouth. The mouth utters a monologue of fragmented, jumbled sentences which gradually coelesces into a narrative about a woman who has suffered an unpleasant experience. The title comes from the character’s repeated insistence that the events she describes did not happen to her. ”
“Love Your Money” by Daisy Chainsaw (1991)
I saw these guys supporting Hole in autumn ’91, they were way better than the main act, and a complete surprise at the time.
What’s lovely about this clip is that the band now come across as perfectly normal compared to that weird looking audience.
“Let England Shake” by PJ Harvey (2010)
…being watched by somebody who is about to lose his job.
“Heart of Gold” by Neil Young (1971)
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