Steven Ball Videos

short experimental docu-vodle featuring footage in front of "magazin du Nord" in Copenhagen, with a poster for the copdox film festival. November 2009; Fine soundtrack addition from Steven Ball / internet archive.[Sam Renseiw; video 733 for patalab02.blogspot.com]

Steven Ball from the University of London in the United Kindom presents 'New Voices, New Knowledge and the New Politic of Education Research'.

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " What is attempted [in some voodles] is to eliminate the intention to establish relationships and to produce instead an explosion of images…since…modern video…destroys the spontaneously functional nature of images, and leaves standing only its lexical basis... It initiates a discourse full of gaps and full of lights, filled with absences and over-nourishing signs, without foresight or stability of intention, and thereby so opposed to the didactic, social function of vision…" Simple didactics can sometimes reveal themselves to be overwhelming, especially in administrated flatly in large quantities, muses Sam Renseiw, voodling feeverishly and sloppily about the basic intricacies of new editing software. View the effect tinted cut-up, with intricate soundtrack re-mix by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 722, 02'47'', 42MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some apparently simple, basic moves. (Lum # 224, " classic footage" 00'56'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Inner-city London on a Sunday in March, the view from the twenty-first floor collides with sound to image to sound experiments in a fast rhythmic mix. Becoming a fragmented montage as digital aphasia collapses into abstracted spatio-temporal articulation. The video is divided into 3 roughly unequal sections. Each is prefaced by a scratched/scrubbed sequence of the dvmaker saying something, however due to the scrubbing only a few gasps of words emerge. These are then followed by rhythmic, repetitive and energetic scratched images of the exterior inner-urban landscape and colourful abstraction. The editing is very fast, often single frame, building rhythms through repetitive and shifting looping passages. The sound utilises the clicks and whirrs of digital inteference. The overall effect is as much musical as it is narrative, indeed sound plays an integral and equal role to the image. Steven Ball http://www.steven-ball.co.uk/

Multitrack black and white rotating microdots, plus layered time shifted granulated electro fuzz music, equals temporal spatial phasing, in an intense stroboscopic digital abstraction.

Passing through tunnels and foyers; on trains, buses and ferries; in elevators, airports and city streets - transitory environments. Metalogue is a travelogue that uses formal techniques to explore spatio-temporal resonance and phenomena. Interspersed with interludes that combine digital excess, abstracted text and voice reciting information relating to the digital video material, and collages of public announcements. Pursuing the notion that the normally backgrounded or hidden information, instructional, metadata and other quotidian media, rising through the digital database editing logic, becomes part of the poetical structure and language in an intermediate realm between description and material. Steven Ball http://www.steven-ball.co.uk/

Direct Language 4 2 17, 2.7Mb, Quicktime Movie http://directlanguage.blogspot.com/

Direct Language 2 2 54, 2.5Mb, Quicktime Movie http://directlanguage.blogspot.com

Direct Language 6 2 20, 5.4Mb, Quicktime Movie http://directlanguage.blogspot.com