Harmony Korine For Cat Power

The Harmony Korine directed video for Cat Power's single, Living Proof. Like an play upon the competition suggested by her album title, The Greatest, Korine creates a 3 minute short that watches Chan Marshall race a gaggle of DIY-burka wearers, whilst carrying a crucifix and sporting a red pvc catsuit - surreally integrating the crusade on terror in an All American dream.

Something to chew over before Korine's Mister Lonely (which looks incredible) sees the light of day...Production stills, here/here.

Beuys Goes Pop

Joseph Beuys turns his hand to agit-pop (1min 58secs, 1982).

'Sonne Statt Reagan.' Playing on the acoustic similarities in German of regen (rain) and reagan (Ronald), 'Sun instead of Reagan(/Rain)' stands as a protest against the 40th President of The United States' armament policies, executed through guitar, bass, drum and vocals. Featuring particularly fetching footage of Beuys swirling his microphone around his head, as his shamanistic-prophet-self finds a populist stage.

You can download the song itself, here. Speak German? Have some lyrics.

Interestingly, Olafur Eliasson has created a piece entitled, 'Sonne statt Regan,' which reverses the pun and uses it as a title for a typically Eliasson piece of perception hedonism instead.

Annika Larsson - Pirate

Annika Larsson departs from her usual staged tableaus of eroticly charged maschismo, to create a video piece from documentary footage. Still sleekly full of erotic adolescent mannequins and Tobias Bernstrup's electronic camp-ery, though here with a more directly political undertone. Almost like an advert for the end of products...
"PIRATE was filmed on the 1st of May 2006 during a manifestation (sic) by the Swedish anti-copyright movement (Piratbyrån and the Swedish Pirate Party) in Stockholm, Sweden."
Piratbyrån being the representatives of the Sweden-based bittorent tracker Pirate Bay, which is currently trying to buy its own island..whilst continuing to allow you to download things for free, like this.

True to the zeitgeist and alongside her gallery's cyber promotion of her, Annika also has her own MySpace page, which generously allows you to watch more of her videos.

David Lynch - Guardian/NFT Interview

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More Lynch. It's the season. David Lynch talks to Mark Kermode about Consciousness, Art, Poland and Inland Empire, from the Guardian/NFT interview at the beginning of February.

His recent interview with Vice, here, for good measure. His coffee, here, to caffeinate that measure further.