The film makes unfortunate subjects of people who maybe should have been left to their own devices beyond the glare of the video camera. Instead we see our pettiness, our failures, and our shortcomings reflected back at us in every frame. -

John Colpitts on “Dig” (2004) dir. Ondi Timoner @ nplusone

“people who maybe should have been left to their own devices”

bro documentary starring charmingly unremarkable people speaking about the beastie boys (1994)

hospitals album cover

hospitals album cover

I know that journalism has been so boring at the moment because it’s either about ‘you, you, you, you’, what songs you like, what you feel today, where do you want to go to today, all that. Or it’s big, grand narratives but done in a very dry and boring way. The trick, in the future, will be to put them together… To be blunt, music’s probably the link. - Documentary Filmmaker Adam Curtis, interviewed at “The Wire” (link)
Camera w/ Loose CCD chip
(video)

Camera w/ Loose CCD chip

(video)

LCD w/ t-con board failure

LCD w/ t-con board failure

Obituary of Pal - Rosa Menkman

“For this part of the 30 minutes video, I used a NES, some image bending and a broken photo camera (CCD chip is loose) &&. For the sound I used a cracklebox, feedback, a telephone and a couple of DV-compressed videobends.”

looks v. cool + evokes emptiness

essay - via Rhizome