Video and Cinema

  • Electric Sheep – Interview with Scott Draves

    Electric Sheep – Interview with Scott Draves

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    Electric Sheep Introduction Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.– Wikipedia First created in 1999 by Scott Draves, the Electric Sheep is a form of artificial life, which is to say it is software…

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  • Zeitguised’s abstract, surrealistic, strange, video art

    Zeitguised’s abstract, surrealistic, strange, video art

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    Holy strange eye-candy Batman, what is that? NFW! WTF? It’s Zeitguised again, making magic. Pure, magical, computer generated abstract art. Delicious candy for your eyes. (We originally covered Zeitguised here in 2013.) And wow. It doesn’t get weirder than this. Watch Zeitguised’s mind-altering videos with sound on. It multiplies the effect. Geist.xyz Animated Gif Stills: AN EXPLORATION…

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  • APPETITE

    APPETITE

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    APPETITE is a story about a journey into the belly of the beast. It was originally inspired by a painting by Yagama and her poem “I Am Hungry. The APPETITE teaser video, is a standalone surrealist work of video art and gives a glimpse into the world of the longer 15 minute film. It has been…

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  • Christie Neptune Surreal Video Art: An Afro-Surrealist Sci-fi Future

    Christie Neptune Surreal Video Art: An Afro-Surrealist Sci-fi Future

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    Christie Neptune’s “She Fell from Normalcy” Stills Note On Surrealism, Past and Present Followers of contemporary surreal art, and perhaps this blog, may forget that surrealism (and it’s precursor, Dada) were politically inspired art movements. Dada’s “anti-philosophy” developed in reaction to World War I. Surrealism became notorious for many reasons. One of these was affiliating itself with the…

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  • The last film by Jan Švankmajer: Insects

    The last film by Jan Švankmajer: Insects

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    PRESS  RELEASE Legendary filmmaker Jan Švankmajer needs your help to produce his final feature film titled Insects. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-last-film-by-jan-svankmajer-insects–4#/ Campaign story After five long years of preparations, legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer is almost ready to start filming his final feature film titled Insects, a misanthropic and surreal imagery echoing Kafka and the Čapek Brothers. Jan…

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