"arty" vid recs

[nemonclature]

I'm doing a vid project that draws on vidding techniques and I wanted to compile a reclist of 'arty' vids - any vids that stood out as partcularly inventive in terms of technique, or maybe a bit more abstract than the usual?

I know that's a bit vague, but it's mostly just for research purposes, to get an idea of the kinds of editing techniques that set vids apart from 'video art' or mainstream films.

So, I'm open to classic vids, youtube vids, creaspace vids, amvs, pretty much anything that you might have seen and thought, wow, that was funky!

Any help much appreciated! The project is three weeks, but I'm hoping to get research done this week.

Thanks!

(x posted to lj)

Comments

[netweight]

Luminosity's "Vogue" comes to mind.

ETA: Also by Lum's "Fifth Circle". Counteragent's "Still Alive". Sisabet's "Bad Romance". All of these are notorious for drawing on different sources/media - not in a multi-fandom way, but in a multi-media way.

[nemonclature]

That's awesome, thank you!

[rivkat]

Worthy, a SPN vid, has some amazing effects: all the words have been added by the vidder to the source.

Also, sisabet's Without You I'm Nothing, Smallville, really highlights the way vids cut on the beat (a very distinctive feature versus other video art IMO) and is a relatively early example of the expanding possibilities enabled by vidding on a computer. Hollywoodgrrl is another vidder whose control of the beat is spectacular: Bedtime Story (Legend of the Seeker) and Boom Boom Pow (Fringe) are my favorite examples. Giandujakiss's It Depends on What You Pay (Dollhouse) has fantastic editing to the beat and also a very savage critical message, based on interaction between the visuals and the vocals (another distinctive feature of vids IMO). Luminosity's Vogue is often intelligible to non vidding audiences as well as being wonderful in itself, and does things with the size of the frame. Charmax's Darwinism (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles/Battlestar Galactica) mashes up two sources in a great way, with added visual effects.

[nemonclature]

Yes, thank you, I'd forgotten about the importance of the beat!

[chaila]

Pretty much anything kiki_miserychic does, but two come to mind right now: so say we all ii (streaming here) and Runs in the Family (this one is rather gory). See also her post on vidding as art?

Also beccatoria's Manifesto and maybe Set My World Into Motion for interesting technique.

[nemonclature]

Cool thanks, and no I hadn't seen the vidding/art post, shall check it out!

[sakana17]

Here are three that come to mind:

Vertigo (House) by bradcpu

Post Blue (Firefly/Serenity) by obsessive24

Ecstatic Drum Trip (Farscape) by Luminosity

Really, almost anything from these vidders has artistic visual impact.

[nemonclature]

Cool, thank you!

[zeborah]

Tearful Eye's Needs. I've watched it dozens of times if not hundreds by now and every time I get something new out of what it does with the motion and flow. One memorable time was when I realised how it created/built on the music's suspense by having the motion in each clip be not quite completed: you see someone reach to touch someone but never quite get there, over and over to the very last clip.

This time just now, I caught the parallel of the scattered leaves from the start with all the other things that are scattered throughout: flowers, drops of water, beans, arrows, snow. And that image of the scattered things contrasts with another recurring image, the length of fabric; and that contrasts with the recurrence of the sword; and these three things are all weapons/defence against each other in rock-scissors-paper fashion.

[nemonclature]

That sounds awesome, thank you!