[aha] 6-6-11 banzai film (flying inset) + desert film festival

[{ brad brace }]

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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...

latest films:

¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai6-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai5-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai4-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai3-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai2-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai1-6-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai31-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai30-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai29-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai28-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai27-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai26-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai25-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai24-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai23-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai22-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai21-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai20-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai19-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai18-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai17-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai16-5-11.mp4
¥ http://iabrace.com       banzai15-5-11.mp4
¥
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2011 banzai films by brad brace: http://www.iabrace.com/

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 denizens/acolytes terminated. 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 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...


WESTERN SAHARA: REFUGEES HOLD FILM FESTIVAL

http://bit.ly/lDItZR

Western Saharaâ eighth Sahara International Film Festival 
(known as FiSahara), the world's most remote film festival, 
took place in early May this year deep in the Algerian 
desert. The festival is located in a refugee camp 130 miles 
from the nearest town in the Algeria desert and aims to 
offer entertainment and educational opportunities to the 
refugees as well as raise awareness of a forgotten 
humanitarian crisis. The refugees are Saharawiâ from Western 
Sahara - occupied unlawfully by Morocco in 1976 - and an 
estimated 165,000 of them have lived in four camps for over 
three decades.


/:b