In honor of Halloween week day two, let’s take a look at Nicolas Provost’s Long Live The New Flesh.
Or part of it at least.
In Long Live The New Flesh, Provost uses appropriated footage from horror movies – some big name titles, some obscure B-movies – and uses various digital editing techniques, most noticeably data moshing, to have the “images literally consume one another and the horror in all its visual power [be] brought to a natural boiling point.” – Provost
Unfortunately, only a few excerpts of the whole video are available online, so let these little tidbits whet your appetite. If you really wanted to see the whole thing, you’d have to rent it or screen it with a place like Chicago’s own Video Data Bank.
Nicolas Provost is a new kid on the block as far as experimental cinema is concerned, but he’s been garnering quite a name for himself in the past few years. He’s got a lot of other awesome works, a
In honor of Halloween week day two, let's take a look at Nicolas Provost's Long Live The New Flesh.
Or part of it at least.
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In Long Live The New Flesh, Provost uses appropriated footage from horror movies – some big name titles, some obscure B-movies – and uses various digital editing techniques, most noticeably data moshing, to have the "images literally consume one another and the horror in all its visual power [be] brought to a natural boiling point." – Provost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX9_ivAQ70g&feature=related
Unfortunately, only a few excerpts of the whole video are available online, so let these little tidbits whet your appetite. If you really wanted to see the whole thing, you'd have to rent it or screen it with a place like Chicago's own Video Data Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFBJhctJVGA
Nicolas Provost is a new kid on the block as far as experimental cinema is concerned, but he's been garnering quite a name for himself in the past few years. He's got a lot of other awesome works, and he's definitely someone I'm going to write about again.
And if you're interested in learning how to data mosh, this is the best thing ever:
super-special-secret video editing secrets:
http://double7film.com/community/2009/how-to-data-mosh-global/
