There are a few more in the gallery…

A couple of images from last week’s amazing Nosferatu rescore (with many thanks to Penny McConnell who took them and then had to wade through 4,000 Supersonic photos to find them). There is a handful of silent movies that are well-travelled and often get the live score treatment, and Murnau’s horrorshow is one of them. And yet - as Catherine Bray put it in her nice writeup - it seemed like a whole new film on Sunday. Testament to the skills of (clockwise from top left) Lucy Baines, Laurence Hunt, Hannah Baines, Grandmaster Gareth and Matthew Eaton (not pictured). They’ll be presenting the film again at Warwick Arts Centre in the autumn.

Before we pack our bags for Knitflicks, here are a couple of other knitting-related things that we’ve come across recently…

Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (picture above from the Institute for Figuring) - on show at the Southbank in London until 17th August. Crocheting apparently enables you to create forms impossible in 3-D rendering, and the crafts corner of high mathematics is the place to be at the moment;

Knitting at the movies - if you can’t make it out of the house this weekend, Angel Hair’s exhaustive list may give you some ideas on films to rent;

Wool 100% - the debut feature by Japanese filmmaker Mai Tominaga, this tale of a feral girl who knits obsessively is perhaps a little too full-on for Compton Verney. The trailer is worth a look though;

And finally, myself and Mrs 7inch will be playing some records at the next gathering of Stitches and Hos in the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath on Tuesday 29th July. Come and ask for some speed garage, I dare you.

With thanks to Jaygo Bloom at gabba.tv; available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Have been feeling slightly out of touch with the music video world lately, but programming for Supersonic is always a good opportunity to catch up with this stuff. Winging its way to us via special delivery at this moment (hopefully to arrive in time for Saturday) is a dvd of new Cornelius animations, amazing stop-motion and cgi work by a filmmaker called Koichiro Tsujikawa. Cornelius are already well known for their visuals, but this guy takes the biscuit - particularly his slow-building and insanely-detailed Brueghel-meets-model-railway number for Like a Rolling Stone. (The Sensuous dvd is released in September by Cherry Red.) Other stuff we’re excited to be showing… a couple of videos by San Francisco outfit Encyclopedia Pictura including their recent Bjork extravaganza (though not in old-school 3D unfortunately); crazy dead fish antics from Warp; and Matt Stokes’ distillation/recreation of the classic Northern Soul night out in Long After Tonight. Plus on Sunday Matthew Eaton and Grandmaster Gareth will be performing their new score to Murnau’s Nosferatu.

Going back to music videos — if you have any interest in the form, Antville Videos is still the best place to go on the web. On the whole it’s just people posting promos, dissing them, bigging them up. But there’s also some interesting industry chat in there too, like this thread on the shrinking-budget phenomenon. They also alerted us to an article on Michel Gondry’s 25 favourite-est music videos. And in the process of fetching those links let me know that Bruce Conner had died. Oh shit. Obituary corner coming soon…

Another of our featured Flummoxed artists, Oliver Laric is based in Berlin and makes consistently interesting and often funny short films that pillage selectively from the web and veer all over the place in style and approach. The stills above are from 50 50, which cuts together fifty different youtube covers of 50 Cent, and (>’.')>=O____l_*__O=<('.'<), an emoticon animation in the style of ASCII porn. Other recent pieces include Webchat with Andy (a conversation with Andy Warhol via an Australian psychic), La Mano Izquierda (in which the whole world seems to revolve around Hugo Chavez’s hand) and a project called Songs Translated to Buildings. You can watch all of this on Oliver’s site, and some of it at Flummoxed tomorrow. Below is a little greenscreen film he made of himself dancing.

And a nice preview from the Metro…

The climax of the event will be provided by Scott Johnston (Film Ficciones) and Matthew Eaton (Micronormous), who you may remember collaborated on the Divine Edgar installation. This time around they’ve been delving into the work of composer Jacob Isaacson, who created a series of ‘Colortone Experiments’ from the 1950s onwards which attempted to transpose colours into musical form. (Isaacson was himself a synaesthetic.) For the first time in many years, Isaacon’s final work Lucent Harmonic Color will be performed in full at Flummoxed, with Eaton interpreting the score while Johnston provides a visual counterpoint. That’s about all they’ve told us at this stage, but it promises to be a unique finale.