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This is the third feature for Feedbag Films here on Orlando Video. Why? They keep putting out new stuff, they blog about it, and I watch the videos, knowing they will be something worth my time. I haven’t been disappointed yet.
Tod Caviness, AKA Sam (Demencius Vex) Ripken left a comment on the blog post for this video containing the following text:
I just wanted to say that I am quite proud to have been a part of the movie that has taken our old paradigms about science fiction and ignited them into a searing ball of plasma
My impression of this short is that they will be showing us the Red vs. Blue, Venture Brothers, The Office, and/or Harvey Birdman side of live science fiction – way too serious and at the same time clumsy and down to earth. If I am wrong Butch, please let me know.
You can find out more about this group at the Feedbag Films webpage, which needs a raw injection of CSS/HTML pixie dust right now, or at myspace.com/feedbagfilms, where you can be fake friends with them and tell them you saw their work on OrlandoVideo.TV if you like. If you want your own videos here on the blog and Liberatr.net, send an email with a link to < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >. There is some editorial process that goes into this blog, so providing some extra info doesn’t hurt.
Do you ever have one of those moments, when you’re reading a friend’s blog post and you notice a reference to the name of a film company here in town? No? Well, it happened to me yesterday, and, being the author of Orlando Video, I looked into Deeb Studios.
I didn’t find much about Deeb except a webpage with some gorgeous videos. The last one on the list was a particularly well photographed trailer for a short film called The History of Pennsylvania, created by a local filmmaker named Ryan of 45 Year Old Productions (try myspace, the site is “under construction”). They have some videos linked there, as well as on Ryan’s YouTube page. There’s not too much information about Ryan, Deeb or 45 Year Old that I could find, but I’m sure that with a portfolio like this, we’ll be seeing more from them.
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I have been aware of Jonathan (AKA Pandos) and his work since at least the 2006 Grandma Party. He walked up to us at our blanket and handed us some CDs with very pretty packaging and fun electronic music on them. For whatever reason, I lost those CDs in a box of stuff I didn’t open until I moved in October, when I found them and was pleased by the “B4RSK1LZ” and reminded of the kind guy who handed them to me. Two of the discs were actually blank according to my computer, but one was called “Orange” and came in orange packaging with hand-draw artwork, a linen front and some painted bits of what I think is upholstery samples.
I recently had the pleasure of watching a live Pandos performance at Austin’s Coffee. There is no way I can describe his work to you and have it make sense – even the video clip above does not do him justice.
Pandos is an exercise in found audio and video, or it at least seems that way. Jonathan appears to have compiled several hours of video of very interesting things in order to make a composite work. He takes three old television sets and three VCRs with about 20 VHS tapes and proceeds to play them in overlapping patterns that create an impossible to recreate live performance of sight and sound. Even the on-screen display for the VCRs, like “PLAY” and “STOP” and up contributing to the final composition.
The digital video and audio by Pandos clearly stems from the same place. Electronic, but still melodic, again using found clips (like a Mr. Spell, or the Spice Girls “Wannabe” for example). Jonathan referred to himself as a VJ, but he certainly has an ear for composition, as “Are you a dreamer?” demonstrates.
On a few of the posts here at Orlando Video, you will notice a “Download” link, namely from videos found on Revver or Blip – this comes from Jonathan’s suggestion that I make videos available for download as well as streaming. If you want your video featured here, as a link, a streaming video or a download, just email me – liberatr [at] gmail DOT com.
In this crazy hurricane we call Internet Video, I get a jones for finding things that were made in my backyard. I hope these little blogs can bring a bit of that joy to you, and maybe help you make a new friend. It's the least I can do.
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