Student Protestor (2010)

(via K-Punk)

"This was meant to be the first post-ideological generation. This was meant to be the generation that never thought of anything bigger than our Facebook profiles and our TV screens"

"However much they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets"

Future Shock dir Alex Grasshoff (1972)

Narrated by Orson Welles
Based on the book by Alvin Toffler

Bohren & Der Club of Gore- "Constant Fear" (2008)

Fire In My Belly dir David Wojnarowicz (1987)

Banned art. Soundtrack by Diamanda Galas

Ministry- Just One Fix dir Peter Christopherson (1992)

feat. William S. Burroughs

Rage Against the Machine- People of the Sun dir Peter Christopherson (1996)

Nine Inch Nails- Pinion dir Peter Christopherson (1991)

Coil- The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II) dir Peter Christopherson (1991)

Ministry- Over the Shoulder dir Peter Christopherson (1985)

Coil- The Wheel dir Peter Christopherson (1985)

Throbbing Gristle- Discipline

Devo October 1981

Karlheinz Stockhausen on Sounds (1972)

Wojciech Bruszewski- Yyaa (1973)

Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife (1994)

An Episode of the BBC series "Arena"

Jon Stewart C-Span Interview

In honor of the Rally to Restory Sanity and/or Fear, here's my favorite Jon Stewart interview.

Who is the Master? film/interview by Edgar Pêra Lisboa with Robert Anton Wilson (1994)

Reality is what you can get away with

Art of Noise- Close (to the Edit) dir Zbigniew Rybczynski

Classic video

"Half Mensch" by Einsturzende Neubaten dir Sogo Ishii

speaking of found sound stomping, shoving, and pounding

I Hear a Shadow dir Nico Vascellari (2009) (excerpt)

Nico Vascellari bangs a stick against a wall and creates an ungodly noise in a stunning performance piece

"You're Going to Die" (2000) dir Timothy Furstnau. Narrated by Vito Acconci

Threads (1984) Dir Mick Jackson

In my formative high school years, I received a film education through my local library, which was the only place you could find movies from before 1975 (and found Blockbuster, Video Update, or other now extinct chains to be the enemy). Simultaneously, I obsessively used the library to mine the archives for "samples" to powder the rudimentary basement electronic music I was making at the time (examples of this will eventually be posted here). So I decided to check out an innocuous-seeming BBC drama called Threads from 1984 hoping to find a few cool sound samples and expecting little else. As any one alive when it first aired in the UK can attest, it is one of the most disturbing, terrifying films ever made. Going into scientific and horrific medical detail of what the fallout of a nuclear assault on Britain would be like, it's no surprise this was required watching for a country in the grips of the cold war. That the threat is no less plausible now should be a good enough reason to revisit this one.

Solaris (1972) dir Andrei Tarkovsky

Need I say More?

Sleep/Swim

not really sure what this is, but it's lovely

John Whitney- "Lapis" (1966)

James Whitney- "Yantra" (1957)

dig the soundtrack on this one

John Whitney- "Catalog" (1961)

This may seem like standard issue screen saver nowadays, but this was 1961.

Through the Night Softly- Chris Burden 1973

TV ad made by performance artist Chris Burden in 1973.

Thanatopis (1962) dir Ed Emshwiller

20/20 Special on the Danger of Heavy Metal

LonelyGirl48

LonelyGirl48 - watch more funny videos

Starring my dear friend and former HvEXAS/Moe Greene compatriot Evan Leed.

Child's Play: Hammer Horror (1986)

The absolutely bizarre ending to a short from the British Tv show Hammer House Of Mystery & Suspense. Dig the spacey, arpeggiated Oneohtrix Point Never soundtrack at the end too...

Mondo Cane Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi

Segment on postwar drunkenness in Germany

Children of the Stones (All 7 Episodes)

I'm glad people keep posting these so I can kind of relate what watching TV in the UK in the 70s was actually like (and understand what the hell K-Punk is saying half of the time).

Jesus on E's Full Video (Amiga Techno Classic)

courtesy of the wonderful Blog to the Old Skool

Journey to Orion

Short film based on 13 to Centaurus by
J.G.Ballard. Director Solveig Nordlund

Dig the soundtrack...

Synth Britainnia

Divided into 10 parts, the brilliant BBC doc Synth Britainnia is finally on YouTube, though you should watch it now. It may be gone soon...

Crash (1971)

"I think the key imagine in the 20th century is the man in the motorcar. It sums up everything- the elements of speed, drama, agression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods for the technological landscape, the sense of violence and desire, power and energy, the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signaled lanscape"- JG Ballard

It's no secret that Croneneberg's version is as much a Cronenberg piece as Ballard adaptation (perhaps even more Cronenberg than Ballard) and Harley Cokliss does a better job of eroticizing the automobile, though he seems to do so by anthropomorphizing the automobile rather than mechanizing the human body, which seems the crucial difference between Cokliss and Cronenberg's readings.