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12
Dec
2011
Cowboys and Anthrax
Great stuff here from the Bad Lip Reading Youtube channel. Check it out for plenty more.
Thanks to Hugh for bringing this to my attention.
23
Nov
2011
Slow Walkers
“Wake” from “Slow Walkers”, a Grouper / Lawrence English collaboration, to be released in 2012. The video is something else — “meditations for the zombie as cultural phenomena”.
Thanks to Dennis for bringing this to my attention. He also makes great ambient music himself — if you like this kind of thing, you should check his music out.
14
May
2011
The Death Of Yugoslavia
The BBC’s Death of Yugoslavia is a documentary that aired originally in 1995. It had a huge impact on me when I watched it at the end of last year, and I was happy to find it in its entirety on Youtube again recently. As far as I’m concerned, it’s absolutely necessary viewing. It is 300 minutes in total, split into 6 episodes. Wikipedia states:
The series was awarded with a BAFTA award in 1996 for Best Factual Series.[1] Because of the series large amount of interviews with prominent leaders and commanders of the conflict, it has been frequently used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.[2]
All the papers relating to the documentary series, including full transcripts of the many valuable interviews conducted with participants, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King’s College, University of London. The catalogue can be examined here
During the trial of Milošević before the ICTY, Judge Bonomy called the nature of much of the commentary “tendentious”.[3] This was because there were instances in which an interview in the Serbian language was subtitled incorrectly and often in a misleading manner (for example, the subtitling translated an interviewee saying that “Milosevic always won the elections on a nationalistic platform and nothing else”, rather than “… on a national platform… “).[4]
Here are all 6 episodes for your convenience:
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12
Feb
2011
Cáca Milis
A short Irish-language film starring Brendan Gleeson, not entirely unlike the wonderful Six Shooter.
3
Dec
2010
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet
I rather like the “A”, “Amer-kawh”, “and”, “for” and “great” bits.
23
Jun
2010
Writing without reading
A curious case of a professional writer who awoke one morning to find his capacity to read crippled by a stroke. Animation and narration from Lev Yilmaz. You can watch the video here. For some reason the embedding seems to be a bit mucked-up.
19
Jun
2010
Do you think it will always be like this?
Thanks to Paddy for bringing this to my attention. (You should really check his blog out too, it’s excellent.)
Please Say Something is a 10 minute short concerning a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. The final film was completed in January 2009 and contains 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each.
The film won the Golden Bear for best short at the 2009 Berlinale, the Cartoon D’or and several other awards. In 2010 it was given a distinction of cultural significance by the German ratings agency FBW (Prädikat Besonderes Wertvoll).
