Animal

The director couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives indoors, congratulating himself on the economic virtues of having ingested ‘animal condensed’ – an unexplained substance that seems to merge human and animal – and its benefits to his comfortably alienated life. “It optimises, it abstracts… it made us safe, here at home, with our accelerated portfolios”, he explains. Upstairs, his daughter virtually reconfigures Peppa Pig. Outside, meanwhile, hiding in the forest, is an unnamed, camouflaged fugitive, who explains her escape from a society that seems to have happily abolished the distinction between organic and technological life. An artist who has become a guerrilla fighter, the woman is busy preparing totem-like countermeasures to disrupt those who have become ‘animal expanded’.

Animal Liberation: The Movie

This video has been produced by various individuals to complement the original video "Animal Liberation - The Movie (1993)" and show how animal liberation has developed into the 90s'. Every year billions of animal are killed in laboratories, imprisoned in factory farms and slaughtered in abattoirs, killed for pleasure by hunters, shooters and anglers. So some of people are prepared to go beyond the law. Nearly 200 people have been imprisoned since the 80s. The ALF have closed down many vivisection laboratories and other establishments. This video was dedicated to those people who have given their lives and freedom in the name of animal liberation.

Scenes from a carnival and sideshow in 1961.

A hoarder named Benny finds a strange door in his basement.

Graeme Arnfield’s kaleidoscopic essay film revolves around the story of Dr. Joseph Popp, an evolutionary biologist and architect of one of the earliest known examples of ransomware. In 1989, Dr. Popp distributed 20,000 floppy disks containing what would come to be known as the digital AIDS virus – a malevolent trojan horse that scrambled the contents of the victims’ computers and offered to unlock them only in return for a ‘licensing fee.’ Working with a range of digitally manipulated found footage, Arnfield explores the legacy of Popp’s virus drawing surprising connections to the US invasion of Panama, the construction of a butterfly conservatory in New York and the aesthetics of computational art.

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art, and Social Practice at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in October, 2019. I was supposed to be on a panel but fear of flying led to further video steals. The text came out of sessions with Emotion Focused Therapy maestro Bill Gaynor. Anne Carson and Karl Ove Knaussgard make appearances, along with a bevy of writers and meditators. What if the pause before speaking was equal to the speaking itself? How to grant attention, to celebrate even, the moments of pause?

Making animals with wire and paper.

Inspector Boniface Koomsin, a Ghanaian police detective, embarks on a dangerous, crime-laden journey to recover the one thing he needs to realize his ultimate dream-- to escape the ghosts of his past and return to America.

Pearl Jam play live at at Lollapalooza, Autódromo de Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil on March 24, 2018. >> SETLIST: Wash, Corduroy, Do the Evolution, Why Go, Mind Your Manners, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Can't Deny Me, Even Flow, Happy Birthday to You (Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill cover) (sung to Perry Farrell), Mountain Song (Jane’s Addiction cover) (with Perry Farrell), Breath, Pulled Up (Talking Heads cover) (first since 1992; not on printed setlist), Unthought Known, Jeremy, Sirens, Down, Better Man (with 'Save It for Later' tag), Hold On, Black, Once, Lukin, Porch >> ENCORE: Smile, Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd cover), Alive (with 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' tag during solo), Baba O'Riley (The Who cover), Yellow Ledbetter

The marvelous story of a young boy who writes a magical musical for an imaginary carnival, is fancifully brought to life by award-winning puppeteer Jim Gamble. Before your eyes, a tea set becomes a floating dancing turtle, chickens turn into clowns and dogs turn into elephants in this delightful puppet production of Carnival of the Animals. Based on the classic musical story by Camille Saint-Saens and accompanied by a full orchestra, this wonderful puppet performance will enchant and amuse children of all ages. Jim Gamble has been creating and building puppets for over 35 years. He is the master puppeteer for the Los Angeles Music Center, and has built puppets for Disneyland and Disney World.

THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER ... is too mysterious, to me, for me to be able to write anything about it except that it seems to be the best film I've ever made. - SB

01 House Of The Rising Sun 1964 > 02 Sky Pilot > 03 The Black Plague > 04 When I Was Young > 05 We Gotta Get Out Of This Place > 06 Paint It Black > 07 Worksong > 08 We Gotta Get Out Of This Place > 09 It's My Life > 10 In side Looking Out > 11 Good Times interview > 12 Monterey Pop > 13 Monterey > 14 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood > 15 Paint it black > 16 Shake > 17 I Am The Blues > 18 I Used To Be An Animal > 19 Eric Burdon And The Animals

An investigative documentary follows the journey of discovery of an "average Joe" into some of the darkest secrets of animal trafficking, operating within legal loopholes.

Before Sammy, his best friends were stuffed animals. Larry, an eccentric amateur taxidermist, works for Animal Services picking up road kill along the highway. Socially isolated, he's retreated into an emotional state where his only companions are the animals he's stuffed.

"ANYWHERE BUT HERE" and "ANIMAL": The first two singles from the forthcoming album from PVRIS. Directed by Jax Anderson and Lyndsey Gunnulfsen.

A grieving woman comes to terms with the loss of her baby by welcoming wild animals into her garden.

Barney has gone to the dogs… the birds, the rabbits, the bugs, and the butterflies! BJ shows off his bug collection and learns that having a pet is a big responsibility. Meanwhile, after building a birdhouse for a lucky bird, Barney takes the children on a tour of the park to learn about other animals and their homes. Have a stu-u-upendous time learning and singing about different types of bugs and animals with Barney and friends!

Marvin Mange, now an old dog, needs to learn new tricks as he hunts down a new uber-animal with powers far beyond his own.