Chronos.(Ron.Fricke.-.1991)

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Chronos is 42 minutes long and has no actors or dialog. The soundtrack consists of a single continuous piece by composer Michael Stearns. Filmed in dozens of locations on five continents, the film relates to the concept of time passing on different scales -- the bulk of the film covers the history of civilization, from pre-history to Egypt to Rome to Late Antiquity to the rise of Western Europe in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the modern era. It centers on European themes but not exclusively. Other time scales include the passing of seasons, and the passing of night and day, and the passing shadows of the sun in an afternoon to the passing of people on the street. These themes are intermingled with symbolic meaning.

Background

Chronos shares its particular style with the film Koyaanisqatsi (1983), for which Ron Fricke was the cinematographer, as well as his later films Sacred Site and Baraka (1992). The theme of the film is "[t]he celebration of life", and does not include the themes of technology as the culprit for society or "life out of balance", which were present in Koyaanisqatsi. American Cinematographer described the film as "a musical poem praising the evolution of Western man from Cairo to Los Angeles."^[3] The film was produced by Canticle Films, a production company founded by Fricke. Funding for Chronos came from the seed money acquired through the publicity surrounding the production of Koyaanisqatsi.^[3]

Fricke designed and built a 65 mm camera for the film, which included a motion control system for the film's special effects.^[3] The director also used the system in his later films.

Michael Stearns, while composing the soundtrack for the film, used a custom-made instrument called "The Beam" to generate many of the sounds he required. The Beam was 12 feet (3.7 m) long, made of extruded aluminum with 24 piano strings of gauge 19-22.

The name of the film comes from the Ancient Greek word χρόνος, khronos, which means time and is also the source to many modern terms related to time, such as chronology, synchronous etc.

the TRIP (1967)

Peter Fonda was involved in a number of psychedelic films in the end of the 1960s, among them the classic Easy Rider and Psych Out, both of which featured the psychonauts-friendly young Jack Nicholson. The Trip (1967) is perhaps the most psyhedelically ambitious film of them all: it is perhaps the only film which is wholly dedicated to following one trip of one person for almost the whole duration of the film. Anyway you look at it, it is a unique cinematic adventure in psychedelia.

You can watch the entirety of the film on YouTube in the link above.

Cymatic Frequencies by DK

'Cymatic Frequencies' an Audio Visual mix by DK

The Solid Steel radio show regularly features AV mixes alongside the audio and this week DK gives you another treat for eyes as well as your ears with his full on Audio Visual mix 'Cymatic Frequencies'.
It's packed full of musical highlights from 2010, Ninja Tune & Big Dada XX celebrations and of course the odd classic thrown in for good measure, all with added visuals (most of them created for each track). No other radio show regularly gives you this 'visual version of a mixtape'

We start where we ended the last AV mix with the anthemic 'Hyph Mngo' by Joy Orbison and a few choice words from Sun Ra. We continue in a future vein with the Eliphino Remix for Kidkanevil, Maddslinky given a Toddla T lick, and the heavy 'Work them' by Ramadanman.
Then it's a Ninja Tune trio and a Big Dada double, James Blake floating over the Altrice remix of Caribou, before turning up the bass to 11 for Bassnectar. The beats stay heavy as we skip through George Lenton and the Jamie XX remix of Gil Scott-Heron, an 'old skool hip hop' trio, mixed with RackNRuin and Vent for extra dance floor punch, and it's a D n B finish with the DJ Marky remix of 'Wile Out' by Zinc, Sunny by James Brown tweaked by Featurecast and we end on the sublime Flying Lotus remix for Andreya Triana.

Listen, Watch and Enjoy.

This is just part of a set that is played out live using Serato Video-SL plug in for Scratch Live. Contact solidsteel@ninjatune.net for more info.

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Visuals - Alex Roman / DK re-edit)
Juice Aleem - First lesson (accapella) (Visuals Petah Hayes / DK re-edit)
Kidkanevil - The Floating World (Eliphino Remix) (Visuals - Alex Roman / DK re-edit)
Maddslinky - Special Featuring Omar (Toddla T Remix) (Visuals SEEN© / Polynoid / DK re-edit)
Ramadanman - WorkThem (Visuals - Play Airways / DK re-edit)
Dreadsquad & Lady Chann - Money ah dem god (P-Era & FJH UK Funky Rmx)(Visuals - Paul Griswold)
Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber (Seiji remix) (Visuals - Coldcut/Hexstatic)
Bonobo - Eyesdown (Warrior One remix)
Thunderheist - Jerk it (Visuals - That Go)
Jammer - One over me (Visuals - Jay K / DK re-edit)
Hexstatic - Distorted minds Featuring Juice Aleem (Zero dB remix) (Visuals - Hexstatic )
Caribou - Sun (Altrice Remix)
James Blake - Limit to your love (Visuals - Martin de Thurah )
Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy (Bassnectar Mega-Bass Remix) (Visuals - Patrick Jean )
MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero remix) (Visuals - DK re-edit)
George Lenton - Cold Rocker (Visuals - elo | meno | pe / DK re-edit)
Marco Del Horno v Swerve - Ho! Riddim ft. P-Money (Visuals - Chris Read )
Dyme Def - Do Something (Inst)
Gil Scott-Heron _ NY Is Killing Me (Jamie XX mix)
Coldcut - More Beats & Pieces (US of Audio remix) (Visuals - Coldcut and Hex
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin' (Modeselektor remix) (Visuals - Umfeld dir. Scott Pagano / DJ Food re-edit)
The Bug - Poison dart (Visuals - Tom Oswald Jess Gorrick )
Alborosie - Kingston Town (Bassnectar remix) (Visuals - Ras Kassa )
Dead Prez & W.T.F. - It's Bigger Than Hip Hop UK (Visuals - Brian Beletic )
RackNRuin - Soundclash (Visuals - Chris Cunningham / DK re-edit)
Big Daddy Kane - Raw (Visuals - Live at DMC 1989)
Vent - Guilty (Visuals - Aiko / DK re-edit)
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the leader
Tom Central & Kaitain - Akama (Visuals - Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks / DK re-edit)
Slim - It's in the mix
The Beatles - Come together (A.Skillz Remix) (Visuals - Beatles Rock Band Cinematic and Outro / DJ Food re-edit)
Bassnectar - Basshead (Visuals - Richard Anthony / Flight 404 / Stefan Goodchild / DK re-edit)
Mistabishi - Printer Jam (Visuals - Tin Spider )
DJ Vadim - The Terrorist (MIR Crew Remix) (Visuals - Resistance 2 PSP WW History trailer )
ZINC - Wile Out (feat Ms Dynamite - DJ Marky remix) (Visuals - Amit & Naroop )
James Brown - Sunny (Regrooved by Featurecast) (Visuals - Tetsumasa Saito / DK re-edit)
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus Remix) (Visuals - Duckeye )

Rockers (Movie) – 1979

Even now, more than 30 years after its glory days, it’s extraordinary to realise that reggae has not been celebrated, or even just captured, in a raft of films. Those films where rock is the subject or the soundtrack are a dime a dozen, but reggae has really only three, “The Harder They Come” from 1972 (with the unforgettable Jimmy Cliff on the soundtrack) ,”Country Man” from 1982 and this one, “Rockers”, released in the UK in 1979. Back then skinny, spitting British punks had adopted (and adapted) reggae and introduced it to a much wider audience.
32 years on, the sheer life in “Rockers” has survived well. The kind of film where atmosphere is all, and narrative counts for little, this is the Jamaica-set story of a drummer, Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace (playing, like other musicians in the film, a version of himself) who, talented though he is, is mightily fed up with being ripped off by the local music business. Unable and unwilling to survive on occasional recording sessions and gigs, he opts to buy a flashy red motorbike and distribute records himself. The first result of his part-self-centred, part-idealistic efforts is a severe beating and a stolen bike.
Leroy Wallace amusingly reflects the prevalent casualness of the local men, all the more so when his determination to change things breaks through. Whether it is the uniqueness of male-bonding Jamaica-style, the ease of friendship or brittle relationships with women, “Rockers” certainly conveys the rhythms of local life, all of them matched by the soundtrack which features Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Third World and Peter Tosh.
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The Terror of Tiny Town

The Terror of Tiny Town is a 1938 American film produced by Jed Buell, directed by Sam Newfield, and starring Billy Curtis. It is the world's only musical Western with an all-midget cast.

Using a conventional Western story with an all midget cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee

RaceMarbles

Part 2 Here: Join the Monkees on this made for tv psychedelic movie. There are loads of special guests including Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Clara Ward, Buddy Miles, Paul Arnold and We Three.

Stepping Razor

"And in the early 1990s when I realised that the whole world was only focusing on Bob Marley and everybody had forgotten about Peter, I decided to put together this film so the world could understand the mind of this great poet."

Wayne Jobson-produced Stepping Razor

McLuhan's Wake (2002)

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The opening sequence of McLuhan’s Wake foreshadows the aesthetic quality of the rest of the film. It begins with a montage of video images – crashing seas, a dancing ballerina, the Challenger shuttle – edited together with audio from Marshall McLuhan and original New Age music. This rapid succession of heterogeneous images fades into a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Descent into the Maelstrom, complete with animation, special effects and narration by Eric McLuhan. As did so much of the literature that Marshall McLuhan read, The Descent into the Maelstrom impacted his thinking. However, the 1840 Poe short story is even more significant according to McLuhan’s Wake; the film suggests the mariner’s struggle in the story provides a metaphor for McLuhan’s own attempt to make sense of the swirling, whirling culture of media that could have swept him away so easily had he not identified the laws regarding them.

McLuhan’s Wake is organized around McLuhan’s last scholarly book, Laws of Media, which was published posthumously by his son. In this lesser-known publication of McLuhan’s, he and his son argued that there are four laws of media: any medium amplifies or intensifies some situation; any medium makes part of the environment obsolete; any medium recreates or revives any older structure or environment; and any medium, when pushed to its limit, can reverse to create the opposite of its intended function. McLuhan’s Wake explores this tetrad of enhancement, obsolescence, retrieval and reversal with examples from places so varied as an elementary school classroom, the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, and a Jaguar car dealership.

The film assumes that viewers have at least a rudimentary understanding of McLuhan’s theories. With its abundance of examples illustrating the laws of media, McLuhan’s Wake makes the meaning of the tetrad extremely clear. The film also highlights McLuhan’s better known theories on the effects of technology, including its numbing effect, its potential for creating a global village, its retribalization of man, and its incompatibility with a passive model of education. Excerpts of McLuhan’s lectures and interviews illustrate these theories, edited together with interviews from scholars like Neil Postman and Lewis Lapham and narration from performance artist Laurie Anderson. However, the viewer rarely sees the people speaking, causing them to become disembodied. While McLuhan would likely be quite comfortable with this haunting quality of the film, it has the potential to overwhelm an audience of students unfamiliar with McLuhan’s work.

McLuhan’s Wake does acknowledge criticisms of McLuhan’s theories, but it provides no specific explanation, and attributes them mostly to jealousy or lack of full comprehension. The film, which also loosely follows McLuhan’s life chronologically, portrays McLuhan as having died without ever fully being heard. In this way, McLuhan was the real-life mariner who made sense of and escaped the vortex, only to be dismissed by his peers. The film does highlight the resurgence of McLuhan since the computer revolution, but does not acknowledge that much of this resurgence, at least in popular culture, may be a result of people’s misunderstanding of McLuhan. However, the film does make clear that McLuhan himself believed that computers enabled authorities to exert more control over society. It also highlights McLuhan’s strong objection to technological change on the basis of the resultant unpleasant effects on the human body.

Ultimately, McLuhan’s Wake succeeds as a film. Although it is slow-moving at times, it captures the ideas and aesthetic style of McLuhan. However, because of the McLuhanesque qualities of the film, it falls short as an instructional video to introduce students to McLuhan. However, for students who already have some familiarity with McLuhan’s work, the film can provide insights into McLuhan’s thinking. Additionally, the web-based tools accompanying the video include “Understanding McLuhan,” a brief but useful biography of McLuhan, and an educator’s resource guide filled with discussion-provoking questions and possible assignments. McLuhan’s Wake fills a long-time void for a film about Marshall McLuhan, whose relevance to our contemporary culture cannot be denied. Viewers should just be prepared to experience the film as they might any of his writings, as a psychedelic intellectual journey...

1984 (1984)

...is a British film, released in 1984, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name, following the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government. The film was directed by Michael Radford and stars John Hurt, Richard Burton (in his last film role) and Suzanna Hamilton.

THX 1138 (1971)

...is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, including sexual desire.

It was the first feature-length film directed by Lucas, developed from his student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California, which itself was based on a one and a quarter page treatment of an idea by Matthew Robbins.^{[citation needed]} The film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's then-new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971.

Am I Paranoid?

...This wonderfully crafted multimedia mash up intertwines many concepts and ideas, taking the viewer on a mesmerising journey that will have you coming back for more! www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com...

Music is the Weapon - Fela Kuti (1982)

Music Is the Weapon may be short, but it's essential viewing for Fela fans. Filmed in 1982, the 53-minute documentary captures the late Nigerian musician/activist at his peak. For the uninitiated, it's hard to explain--in mere words--how one man could so successfully mate the sexuality of James Brown with the righteous politics of Bob Marley and sinuous sounds of Miles Davis. Fela drew as much inspiration for his "Afro-beat" from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as funk, reggae, and jazz. Music Is the Weapon features interviews with Fela and a few of his many wives, along with performances of "ITT," "Army Arrangement," and other anthems. A controversial figure throughout his life, Fela is described as both "superstar" and "man of the people." This short, but potent document ably explores that dichotomy. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Our Latin Thing (1971)

...Nuestra Cosa/Our Latin Thing-the start of the salsa movement in New York and around the world. The year was 1971 and on an August night, the leaders of each group from the Fania label got together for one big shindig at the Cheetah in New York City. The Masters of Ceremonies that night were Symphony Sid and Izzy Sanabria. Led by Johnny Pacheco, the All Stars grooved through the night as they played songs such as "Quitate Tu", "Anacaona", "Ponte Duro", "Descarga Fania", "Estrellas de Fania", and more. But to me, this is an important recording to our culture, because this soundtrack was the one that introduced the Spanish speaking culture of New York to different types of people across the U.S. and the World. This was indeed, the supernova of Salsa.

It's a Wonderful Life

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Greaser's Palace - Robert Downey Sr (1972)

...is the gospel according to Downey, set in a Wild West ruled by a tyrant named Seaweedhead Greaser, who collects taxes, keep his mother and his favorite mariachi band in cages and suffers the constipation of the damned. The savior, who arrives by parachute, is a modest young man in a 1940ish zoot suit who simply wants to get to Jerusalem to become an actor-singer. "It's written," he says, "that the agent Morris awaits me."...

...Back in the days when he made movies for $8 apiece and had them developed at Walgreen's—wildly sane movies like "Chafed Elbows" and "No More Excuses" about mother love, war, coping and bestiality, and even when he went comparatively commercial and made "Putney Swope" which is still my favorite film about Madison Avenue, Robert Downey billed himself as "a prince," which he was.

Though he was financially strapped most of the time, he remained resolutely game in that lunatic way that identifies the aristocracy of fools and moviemakers. Downey would try anything and if it didn't work, or wasn't funny, it didn't much matter because it hadn't cost a lot and he'd move right on to something else that probably would work...

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the GREAT Rock 'n' Roll SWINDLE

...my name is malcolm mclaren and i have brought you many things in my time...

Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix

...Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of conversation between Hartley, Wien and Hendrix. It was mainly financed by Hendrix manager Mike Jeffery, hence his appearance. The film is about Pat Hartley's "spiritual awakening" via a visit to the 'Rainbow Bridge' planetary meditation cult on Maui, where, as part of the proceedings Jimi Hendrix visits to play a concert during a 'Rainbow Bridge' mass meditation/colour/sound "experiment". The "Rainbow Bridge" concert was a free concert by Jimi Hendrix that was held on July 30, 1970, in a horse pasture above Seabury Hall, on the "Upcountry" slopes of Haleakala, the volcano that makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii, although it probably last erupted in the 1600s, it is officially considered as being active. - A modest audience of a few hundred island hippies, surfers, and students turned up following announcements that Hendrix would play a free concert for a film. Hendrix was also in Hawaii to play the last concert on his 'Cry of Love' tour with his reformed 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' (with Billy Cox replacing Noel Redding on bass & backing vocals. Mitch Mitchell & Cox were also - previously - members of Gypsy Sun and Rainbows). The director Chuck Wein introduced Hendrix' performance (no mention of a group name) as the driving force of this 'Rainbow Bridge' "experiment" , (this title is often mistaken as being the name of the site of this concert rather than the name of this "Planetary meditation" cult). The original cut, not surprisingly used very little of the concert footage, as this was not intended to be a concert film and no music from the performance was released on the official Reprise LP "Rainbow Bridge- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" for contractual reasons and due to the original music soundtrack being unreleasable due to its very substandard sonic quality on account of strong winds that day. The album does include, however, the studio tracks featured in the film. However, the music from the concert was distributed as a bootleg recording for three decades, before Radioactive Records released this same bootleg recording on the 2003 album, The Rainbow Bridge Concert: The Early Show until it was withdrawn due to a court action by 'Experience Hendrix' which makes this officially a 'bootleg' CD release. The 'Rainbow Bridge' concert was the penultimate performance by Hendrix in the United States, his last was two days later on 01 August 1970, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hendrix died less than two months later on September 18, 1970 in London, England.

Scratch (2001)

...A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl...

Mo' Skateboards...

...YES!, it's SKATEBOARD MADNESS (1979), an american old school skateboard movie with Stacey Peralta. This is the original movie, not the DVD version. This one has the ending cartoon "Karma II" included. Transferred from 16mm film...

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Fully Flared - Spike Jonze et al (2007)

...this one's worth the price of admission for the opening scenes alone, sort of a skateboarding spin on the closing scenes in Zabriskie Point (also showing on MojoTV), beauty in slo-mo...

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...Fully Flared is a skateboarding video by Lakai, directed by Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and Cory Weincheque.

The video's release was postponed for about two years, mainly due to important team additions.^[1][2] Overall it took about four years to make.^[3][2]

Some team members had a lot of left over footage and are now planning to use it for other videos.^[2][4] Most of the video was filmed with Sony DCR-VX1000 cameras and Panasonic HVX200 (which Ty Evans gained access to towards the end of filming) high-definition footage is used for second angles.^[5]

Originally, Evans, Jonze and Howard played with different ideas which were all a lot more dangerous. The intro was then filmed 3 weeks before the premiere.^[5]

According to Brandon Biebel, the most dangerous part of the introduction was Mike Mo Capaldi's "Switch Flip", down the staircase which was then exploded with a small portion of napalm. This explosion was expertly timed and carefully planned so that Mike Mo Capaldi was not in any danger of being hurt from the explosion itself, the danger was of falling debris...