I've been looking for video/film online that relates to religion, or social politics, and critiques of that - it's hard to find film pieces that I can actually view, most sites just give textual detail and an image.
'Belief' (2012) by Jon Thompson and Alison Craighead
Belief is made from information found entirely on the worldwide web. In fifteen minutes, the-screen installation presents a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from YouTube.
https://vimeo.com/109853984
Three short pieces are collected as Tory Stories by Peter Savage: The Revival, Back After the Break and An Ugly Streak of Violence. (1984)
'Belief' (2012) by Jon Thompson and Alison Craighead
Belief is made from information found entirely on the worldwide web. In fifteen minutes, the-screen installation presents a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from YouTube.
https://vimeo.com/109853984
Belief, Installation View
Three short pieces are collected as Tory Stories by Peter Savage: The Revival, Back After the Break and An Ugly Streak of Violence. (1984)
"Something from my overtly political phase. These pieces are of their time.The Revival uses material from an interview with Margaret Thatcher. It is a simple critique—using humour to make the point—on the way politicians and the media shape what we understand, to reinforce particular viewpoints.
Back After the Break uses material mainly from television advertisments in which women are pre- sentedas stereotypes. Again the way in which television images are used to promote a particular view of ‘acceptable roles’ is demonstrated, countered by the ‘Iron Lady’ who steadfastly refuses to listen....'
http://www.lux.org.uk/collection/works/tory-stories-parts-1-3
'A Mass for the Dakota Sioux' by Bruce Baillie (1963- 64) https://vimeo.com/48298412
'A Mass for the Dakota Sioux' by Bruce Baillie (1963- 64) https://vimeo.com/48298412
'A film mass, dedicated to nobility and excellence.
No chance for me to live, Mother, you might as well mourn.' -Sitting Bull, Hukpapa Sioux Chief.
Applause for a lone figure dying on the street. INTROIT. A long lightly exposed section composed in the camera. KYRIE. A motorcyclist crossing the San Francisco bridge accompanied by the sound of a Gregorian chant, recorded at the Trappist monastery in Vina, California.The EPISTLE is in several sections. In this central part the film becomes gradually more outrageous, the material being either from television or the movies, photographed directly from the screen. The sounds of the 'mass' rise and fall throughout. GLORIA. The sound of a siren and a short sequence of a '33 Cadillac proceeding over the Bay Bridge and disappearing into a tunnel. The final section of the Communion begins with the OFFERTORY in a procession of lights and figures to the second chant. The anonymous figure from the introduction is discovered again, dead on the pavement. The body is consecrated and taken away past an indifferent, isolated people, accompanied by the final chant. The Mass is traditionally a celebration of Life, thus the contradiction between the form of the Mass and the theme of death. The dedication is to the religious people (Dakota Sioux) who were destroyed by the civilisation that evolved the Mass. - B.B.'
No chance for me to live, Mother, you might as well mourn.' -Sitting Bull, Hukpapa Sioux Chief.
Applause for a lone figure dying on the street. INTROIT. A long lightly exposed section composed in the camera. KYRIE. A motorcyclist crossing the San Francisco bridge accompanied by the sound of a Gregorian chant, recorded at the Trappist monastery in Vina, California.The EPISTLE is in several sections. In this central part the film becomes gradually more outrageous, the material being either from television or the movies, photographed directly from the screen. The sounds of the 'mass' rise and fall throughout. GLORIA. The sound of a siren and a short sequence of a '33 Cadillac proceeding over the Bay Bridge and disappearing into a tunnel. The final section of the Communion begins with the OFFERTORY in a procession of lights and figures to the second chant. The anonymous figure from the introduction is discovered again, dead on the pavement. The body is consecrated and taken away past an indifferent, isolated people, accompanied by the final chant. The Mass is traditionally a celebration of Life, thus the contradiction between the form of the Mass and the theme of death. The dedication is to the religious people (Dakota Sioux) who were destroyed by the civilisation that evolved the Mass. - B.B.'
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