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Readymade
Readymade from Readymade (2003)

A music video that digitally fragments and recomposes space and time in order to play out a simultaneous series of multiple, loop-based micronarratives

Jean François Coen "La Tour De Pise" Music Video
Jean François Coen "La Tour De Pise" Music Video from La Tour De Pise (1993)

Michel Gondry pays homage to Hollis Frampton's Zorn's Lemma

First person POV in Halloween
First person POV in Halloween from Halloween (1978)

An interesting use of POV to put the spectator inside the head of a killer

Terror Iraq Weapons
Terror Iraq Weapons from Terror Iraq Weapons (2003)

A video clip that boils down George Bush's 2003 speech to the three basic keywords.

Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" Music Video
Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" Music Video from Sugar Water (1995)

An interesting use of the implosion of time/space and splitting the picture frame to tell two seemingly separate stories.

Rico Gatson's Gun Play
Rico Gatson's Gun Play from Gun Play (2001)

A kaleidoscopic mashup of Blaxploitation films and Spaghetti Westerns

Alex Gopher 'The Child' Music Video
Alex Gopher 'The Child' Music Video from The Child (1999)

French design firm H5 created this city built from words partially inspired by Jeffrey Shaw's Legible City

Marshall McLuhan cameo in Annie Hall
Marshall McLuhan cameo in Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

In this classic scene from Annie Hall, Woody Allen breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera and producing Marshall McLuhan from behind a movie poster.

Gregg Biermann's The Hills Are Alive
Gregg Biermann's The Hills Are Alive from The Hills Are Alive (2005)

Iconic scenes from "The Sound of Music" are transformed through a computational remix

Software Demo of HF Critical Mass
Software Demo of HF Critical Mass from For All Mankind (2005)

A moonwalk video shot by NASA played through a Critical Mass named after a movie by Hollis Frampton in 1970.

Naked Lunch Telepathic Conversation
Naked Lunch Telepathic Conversation from Naked Lunch (1991)

Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and Tom Frost (Ian Holm) discuss murdering wives in a telepathic conversation in David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

Abuse of Power
Abuse of Power from Abuse of Power (2006)

An activist short film using images from the mainstream media to parody the MPAA anti-piracy campaign.