Sound and Vision 09

A screening of digital films and music visualisation

Inspirational shorts for students working within the field of digital film.

Sound and Vision 09 is based on an original screening curated by Jason Wilson and Adam Procter.

This updated selection of short was for a Winchester School of Art Project called Sound Bite, the project is to produce a 30 second piece of sound-driven moving image. The brief is open but a piece of sound must be the starting point. The sound can be anything. You can create it, find it, record it or commission it. It could part of a music track or it could be dialogue.

For this particular screening Rob Munday writer, independent film maker aided in updating the selection.

Sound and Vision 09 is a screening of short works that use a range of techniques to integrate and transform music within primarily digitally animated works. Whether or not these works are abstract or generative, all of them possess the unsettling affective power that many recent works of visualization share.

The films screened in the following order although this was not a curated order. All in all a pretty demanding 90 minute screening but well worth the effort !

Title	Artist	Link
A Silver Mt Zion	Kurtis Hough	http://www.vimeo.com/2618991
Spiral flowers
Glimpse of light	Alex-Glawion	http://www.vimeo.com/1639347
A glimpse into the creation of the Universe or maybe the atoms inside us all
Whats a Girl To Do	Bat For Lashes	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wnOUH2jk8
BMX's, furry heads, a great tune, you can't ask for more, well add in some tricks sync'd to the beats and your done
Carbon Footprint	Jelly Fish	http://jellyfishpictures.co.uk/projects/carbon.html
Fantastic visuals convey a simple but important message, the links here includes making off details and videos
Ted	1stAveMachine	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymh13G8YgQE
visit throttleclark.com or 1stavemachine.com.
E-sign	Chris Larkee	http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/movies/
This piece combines a range of influences- Kubrick, Kraftwerk, panel van airbrush art - to produce a spacey, airy, upbeat slice of abstract sci-fi. Look, and listen, to the skies !
Page 3	Fantomas	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7vwNWI5cQY
Scream and shout, classic Punk style rocking !
George Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday	http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230#
A Classic in 21st Century mashup and voice on politics, video is the new written word
Park Foot Ball	Grant Orchard	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hddYiSixKGQ
As a piece of narrative, this film is the soul of simplicity, chronicling a game of football in a park. Its interest lies in its clever use of found sound.
Honda Dream	Honda	http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=697177106372116286#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Dream_%28advert%29
Ionisation	Flat-e	http://www.directorsnotes.com/2006/10/11/ionisation-flat-e/
Flat-e's nightmare creatures come to us from our bad dreams
Jesse	Graham Wood	http://www.4ad.com/scottwalker/video/jesse-file/
Graham Wood, from tomato, provides enough murk and confusion here to perfectly accompany Scott Walker's lament for Elvis Presley's stillborn twin. The few recognisable shapes are iconic rather than figurative, and for the most part the piece calls to mind the intricate pattern-making of Islamic Art. An earthy colour palette and odd textures make this film unsettling but compelling.
Meischeid	Matray	http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/movies/
Audio Generated video
House of Cards	Radiohead	http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.
Rootsnine	Monkeymen	http://www.monkeymen.tv/
Familiar forms from nature, politics and everyday life are forced into new configurations on an antiseptically white background. Cascades of dollar bills, death heads and elephants are melded or a film which is part political commentary, part post-Photoshop apocalypse
SchnittMenge	Spenza	http://www.vakant.net/vx/
Spenza's distinctly architectural abstraction is mercilessly hammered and shaken by a barnstorming drum and bass track. This is film as four-dimensional design: "Schnittmenge' rocks the CADstation.
Owl	Emmanuel Ho	http://www.emmanuelho.com/
Emmanuels Ho's 'Owl' is an unagruable masterpiece of digital animation. The Subtle textural effects, the minimal but effective narrative, and the mood of dread - enhanced by the sound track music - all contribute to a short, but incandescent filmic experience.
Slow Life	Dylan Jones	http://www.superfurry.com/
Together with the Super Furry Animals languid neopsychedelia, the visuals in this film are homage and response to the acid-fried audiovisual culture of the 1960's underground. Heat cameras and digital editing tools are the means, the result is trippy, fluid and gorgeous.
Social Life With Friends	alan lastufka	http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/amazing-kenetic-typography-examples/
BLURB to be written
The Exploding Psychology	Effekt	http://effekts.dk/
One of two films from the Danish Collective Effekt has a landscape of angular wireframes and piercing laser beams twisting and shaking in response to the skittering beats and glitches of UK noisemeister, Squarepusher. Clearly informed by the groups background as club VJs, this is startling generative work.
Subprime	Beeple	http://vimeo.com/4240369
Hand animated 3d houses build and dismantle as we see the increased sprawl/size of our American homes in front of our very eyes, prime real estate
Silent Shout	Andreas Nilsson music by The Knife	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxqeRMoYA5g
Nilsson's disturbing clip for The Knife's song of the same name combines generative abstraction and come truly creepy figurative work. An unusual combination of two visual styles.
Bathroom	Noodle	http://vimeo.com/3539824
Still images to a short poem, throw in system voice fred and a fantastic range of creative commons images and you have one sublime short
Top and Bottom	Jelle Pothoven	http://vimeo.com/groups/24771/videos/6981672
Part of a vimeo 1 minute group. With the chaos of everyday life consuming our senses, it is nice to sit back and enjoy moments and experiences that are often overlooked. This project aims to study the forgotten moments and times in life that we often pass by without acknowledging. The rules: Video must be exactly one minute long,No camera movement (no panning, tilting, etc),No editing whatsoever,Use original sound,Tag with '1 minute' http://vimeo.com/groups/1minute
Trion	Karl Kliem	http://www.dienststelle.de/video-visuals.htm
Karl Kliems painterly, monochrome abstraction is here tied generatively to a spare piano/glitch work by composer Ryuchi Sakamoto. Deceptively simple, haunting and affecting.
Ephemeral Structures	Field	http://www.vimeo.com/279031
Art film for Nokia's "Beautiful Connections" campaign