Kanye West's latest visual hijinks: unapproved video remixes of arthouse favourites as instant quality music videos for Graduation. Wong Kar Wai's 2046, and mainly footage from the BUF produced future city images of the melancholic sci-fier are utilised.
GRADUATION ALBUM LISTENING EXPERIENCE PT.
Vista 8 is the winner of the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. Other finalists of this sub-one minute in-camera mobile phone video recordings also show a provocative analogue/digital purity.
As someone who's experimented with mobile phone footage for years (the frozen ROAM project - pushing new aesthetics for the mobile screen/locative video) - this is definitely the most affecting and effective use of the medium I've seen.
I thought it might be Hiyao Miyazaki-esque in its ambitious reach for the fantastical, but after all the hype Bjork's latest videoclip, the epic 9-month in the making Wanderlust, washes over you as ineffectually as the river that she travels along within it.
Maybe viewing it in high definition 3D might be a revelation, but Encyclopedia Pictura unfortunately don't reach the heights of either beauty or rawness that are signature elements of the Icelandic artists greatest promo's. There is no denying the artistry in the piece, and I'm sure plenty of fans will buy the Wanderlust DVD on release, but track and visuals never soar together.
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