Banzai Films: for a limited time -- free as I make 'em: sudden/short/small mp4 films
loosely based on the japanese tsunami in 2011 -- includes improvised kite-cam
shoreline-imagery with contemporary phased audio pastiche...
2011 banzai films by brad brace:
please download, then view: 176*144 vlc recommended; these films were all made with
a palm-sized $100 camera and perplexing open-source software; the artist has been
refused corrupt-bogus cultural/institutional funding, employment, and representation
for 40 years; the time has long come to wash-away this stupidly-obscene feudal
arts-system. For every star-driven enterprise there are corollary benefits for those
who support it and keep their mouths shut. Admit the truth and have it retched from
your complicit corporate gullets. Criminal institutions who perpetuate the malicious
scam of "art history" shall have their plunder expropriated and denizen/acolyte perquisites
terminated. De-fund the arts to end the evil global empire. banzai!
($50 dvd pre-orders include the molecular-recidivist-cultural essay "fire ring
theory" and available through
http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html )
~ earlier filmworks include:
"silent innings" are curious little mp4s of a nicaraguan baseball scoreboard made in
2008; fanboat films are short mp4 artworks by brad brace, originally posted on
facebook in 2009 -- wild outboard sax music amid shifting layered imagery inspired
by florida fanboats and columbia river barge traffic -- special bonus collection:
matchbook movies from 1984 (small quicktime movies intended for looped-viewing in a
corner of your desktop) over 87 films in all! http://tinyurl.com/43g8w52
http://stores.lulu.com/bbrace
($65/dvd lulu or $50 from me)
/:b
You cannot politically defy the institutions when all you really wanted was to be
clasped to their bosoms and hope in time to be cherished under the very framework of
oppressive values you are thinking of overcoming. That would be co-optation,
revolution only in the sense of a circulation of elites rather than the extirpation
of the very impulses of elitism.
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most institutional-art of the mediocre-evil-empire remains bound up with sign-play:
it's a meta-art largely dependent on its echoes of past psuedo-radicalism, or
conversely on its witty frisson-laced inversions of orthodox notions of what makes
art edgy, experimental, important... but when art styles finally shed all those
ghost traces of corrupt history and achieve a perfact non-referential blankness, the
past will cease to be a museum or even an archive, and become a simply a set of
resources: materials to be used without reverence or nostalgia... no longer pointing
to the past, art will be ready to reconnect to the world happening beyond the
screen...
Banzai Films: