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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
Till Joseph flies to hide the biting tears
Here's an extract from an e mail I sent Doron about this piece:
...this is great & quite the strangest thing you've ever
made. The tone is quite disturbing, made me quite
nervous, but it's also beautiful. In particular
there's one moment near to the end with lots of
effects when there's just some of the most beautiful
shades of green *ever* on the screen.
Also I had an epiphany whilst watching - I realised one
particular move I love in your editing ( and it lends
it so much of its personal quality and power) -it's
like a sort of "half-jump-cut" - we move from one
position of a person to another, sometimes with a
slight zoom in or out or a slight change of angle but
the continuity is both manifestly broken and somehow
retained. It *is* a jump cut but in your hands it
doesn't have the brashness that one might associate
with that term. It's amazingly potent.
Do you shoot with that sort of thing in mind, zooming
in and out with a mind to removing some of the
intervening footage?
I like the performance too, understated but
effective..
The effects are the thing I find strangest - they are
so in-your-face and contrast so markedly with that
lovely B&W look you achieve. The little buzzing
objects ( for want of a better description) put me in
mind of the helicopter in the Tell Aviv portraits..
The symbolism ( again for want of a better word) is so
intensely personal, or at least hermetic that at this
end of your work there's a flavour of Blake. I
couldn't exactly logically justify that assertion but
it *feels* true to me..
...this is great & quite the strangest thing you've ever
made. The tone is quite disturbing, made me quite
nervous, but it's also beautiful. In particular
there's one moment near to the end with lots of
effects when there's just some of the most beautiful
shades of green *ever* on the screen.
Also I had an epiphany whilst watching - I realised one
particular move I love in your editing ( and it lends
it so much of its personal quality and power) -it's
like a sort of "half-jump-cut" - we move from one
position of a person to another, sometimes with a
slight zoom in or out or a slight change of angle but
the continuity is both manifestly broken and somehow
retained. It *is* a jump cut but in your hands it
doesn't have the brashness that one might associate
with that term. It's amazingly potent.
Do you shoot with that sort of thing in mind, zooming
in and out with a mind to removing some of the
intervening footage?
I like the performance too, understated but
effective..
The effects are the thing I find strangest - they are
so in-your-face and contrast so markedly with that
lovely B&W look you achieve. The little buzzing
objects ( for want of a better description) put me in
mind of the helicopter in the Tell Aviv portraits..
The symbolism ( again for want of a better word) is so
intensely personal, or at least hermetic that at this
end of your work there's a flavour of Blake. I
couldn't exactly logically justify that assertion but
it *feels* true to me..
Ghost Bossa // Peloponnesian Landscape with Poppies
Hello
here are two movies I just made. One involves a remix of a very old movie projected onto the front of a Greek hotel, with a specially written Bossa Nova & the other is a looping frame by frame transcription of a video in soft pastels
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/04/14#post222
cheers
michael
here are two movies I just made. One involves a remix of a very old movie projected onto the front of a Greek hotel, with a specially written Bossa Nova & the other is a looping frame by frame transcription of a video in soft pastels
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/04/14#post222
cheers
michael
3 from Dublin//3 Cherry Tree movies
3 from Dublin:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/21#post215
3 Cherry Tree movies:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/22#post216
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/23#post217
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/24#post218
cheers
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/21#post215
3 Cherry Tree movies:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/22#post216
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/23#post217
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/03/24#post218
cheers
michael
New video: Forgot
Also, the acting ( and the director/actor collaboration) is outstanding.
Smart, funny, puzzling, touching by turns..and generous also..
Smart, funny, puzzling, touching by turns..and generous also..
New video: Forgot
This is simply wonderful.
Doron's work is strange - it doesn't lend itself to blow by blow verbal description:
er..Some actors perform in a silent movie based on Waiting for Godot
Then you actually look at it (or if you haven't you should, you really should).
The grammar of his editing is completely unique & mysterious ( a feature of all his longer pieces).
Why did he do that? Dunno - but it made my spine tingle
Work like this often slips under the radar because it has no easy marketing line,
it can't be glibly summed up, reduced to an easily digestible one-liner.
Work like this is food you have to chew a little...but what flavour & what nourishment!
Doron's work is strange - it doesn't lend itself to blow by blow verbal description:
er..Some actors perform in a silent movie based on Waiting for Godot
Then you actually look at it (or if you haven't you should, you really should).
The grammar of his editing is completely unique & mysterious ( a feature of all his longer pieces).
Why did he do that? Dunno - but it made my spine tingle
Work like this often slips under the radar because it has no easy marketing line,
it can't be glibly summed up, reduced to an easily digestible one-liner.
Work like this is food you have to chew a little...but what flavour & what nourishment!