Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.

KOYAANISQATSI attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the “original” is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive. (1982)

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Automata – The Devil Rides Out

 Automata 
1. a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
2. a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.
3. a mechanical device, operated electronically, that functions automatically, without continuous input from an operator.
4. anything capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.

Touch of Evil – opening shot by Orson Welles

This famous opening to Orson Welles classic film noir Touch of Evil (1958) employs a long tracking shot of Mexican police detective Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his new bride Susie Vargas (Janet Leigh) as they cross the border from Mexico into the United States.  Instead of using cuts, the camera moves and tracks multiple scenes of action — the planting of the bomb, Mike and Susie walking the bustling streets of the border town, the couple in the car who are also stopped at the border.  The camera’s mobility and fluidity contrasts with the border itself, where people must stop to be processed before entering.  The viewer learns some important parts of the backstory when Mike and Susie talk to the border patrol agents: Mike and Susie are recently married, and Mike has recently solved a case involving the Grandi crime family, which he claims isn’t quite finished yet.  Once Mike and Susie cross the border, the white car explodes and we see the first cut of the film: a reaction shot to the explosion.

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Intermission – Fantasia by Walt Disney

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. With story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, and production supervision by Ben Sharpsteen, it is the third feature in the Disney animated features canon. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski; seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composerDeems Taylor acts as the film’s Master of Ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live action interstitial scenes.

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Kinetic Sculpture by Fisher Technical Services Inc.

Fisher Technical Services, Inc. (FTSI) is a Las Vegas-based entertainment automation company best known for its sophisticated “Navigator” software and automation products.  Their work spans the entertainment world from movie sets to theme parks, theaters to rock tours, and everything in between.  FTSI’s mechanical design and fabrication services, automation software, and show control system were used extensively for the Macau Bubble Show, as well as in a myriad of the most technologically advanced theaters and attractions in the world.

In 2009, sixteen of the largest private corporations in China decided to finance the Chinese Private Enterprise Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo. They reached out to Fisher Technical Services to create their dream of a kinetic sculpture and 120 days later they had a grid array of 1,008 150mm diameter spheres, each suspended and motivated by its own micro winch.

Kinematics 4D printing

Kinematics is a system for 4D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules. The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure using 3D printing. Kinematics combines computational geometry techniques with rigid body physics and customization. Practically, Kinematics allows us to take large objects and compress them down for 3D printing through simulation. It also enables the production of intricately patterned wearables that conform flexibly to the body.

Gantz Graf by Autechre

The video features an abstract object (or an agglomeration of objects) synchronized to the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes, and finally dissolves. Rutterford (who had previously created an unofficial video for the Tri Repetae track “Eutow” as part of the Channel 4 music programme Lo-Fi in 2001) claims the idea for the “Gantz Graf” video came during one of his LSD trips. Rutterford also stated that there was no generative element to the imagery; every three-dimensional object in the agglomeration was painstakingly and manually synchronised with a specific element or frequency range within the track. The video was produced by Lost in Space.

Balance by Christoph & Wolfgang Lauenstein

One of those great short films that explore human nature,Balance is a classic Oscar winning animation from brothers Cristoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein. Five men are on a pivoting platform that requires they move in unison to remain in balance. However, when one of them brings up a chest from the unseen mist below it becomes apparent that, should they wish to, any one of them can slide the chest towards them and force the others to move. (1989)

The Power of Concentration & Balance by Miyoko Shida Rigolo

Miyoko Shida Rigolo interprets the Sanddorn Balance in a mysterious, almost mystical way. It is immediately clear how profoundly Miyoko Shida Rigolo touches people with her performance. After just a few performances she received invitations to Russian circus festivals and won prizes there (the Silver Medal and the Special Prize from the Russian State Circus at the 5th International Festival of Circus Art in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia, 2012). Her first appearance in Spain was immediately broadcast on television and the clip of her performance became an internet sensation: more than 10 million clicks within a few days. The whole world was talking about Miyoko Shida Rigolo and the art of the Sanddorn Balance.

The Private Life of Plants – BBC Timelapse

David Attenborough documentary series exploring the life cycle of plants. A study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival.

The series utilises time-lapse sequences extensively in order to grant insights that would otherwise be almost impossible. Plants live on a different time scale, and even though their life is highly complex and often surprising, most of it is invisible to humans unless events that happen over months or even years are shown within seconds. (BBC 1995)

my Collection for your Inspiration by Wim Goossens