Future Life

The Sci-Fi Film Festival is on in London at the moment. This in itself is pretty awesome, but Transmission have also curated an exhibition for the festival called 'Life in 2050'. Each of the featured artists have given a representation of what they think the world will be life in 40 years and the variety of responses is amazing. There is an overriding sense of decay and destruction in the works which says something about the current state of the world. This particular video by Future Deluxe, however, has a rather more positive view on the future with blinding white light and surreal graphics which are absolutely mesmerising. (all images and video from the Life in 2050 website, also the song in the background is Harmonic 313 in case anyone is interested)

Artist Tom Gallant

Artist Mario Hugo

Rufus Wainwright Bats His Lashes

Chiara from moda communicator put me onto this video, knowing my passion for disembodied parts. The film was created by Douglas Gordon as part of the new tour visuals for Rufus Wainwright. It's Wainwright's own eye shot at 1,000 frames a second, so that each blink becomes a prolonged, almost gelatinous, movement. It's beautiful and simple, showing that by separating something ordinary from its usual context you can give it endless meanings and interpretations. By the end of the film I began to think of them less as eyes and more as some sort of unknown sea creature, bobbing gently in the dark depths of the ocean. To see the video click here. (image from pocket-monsterd)

Blue Roses- Doubtful Comforts

I don't know what 3D camera shift means exactly but the result is a beautiful, atmospheric music video for the Blue Roses. The flickering figures pick up the music-box quality in the song, making it sinister and child-like at the same time. It's the work of Berlin-based duo A Nice Idea Every Day.