Trentemøller: The Very Last Resort

Collage video by Karim Ghahwagi for "The Very Last Resort" from Trentemøller's album "The Last Resort" as shown on the current worldtour "Trentemøller live in concert".

My David Lynch Refixes

Credits:

Directed by:
David Lynch

Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer

Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl

Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer

Cinematography by:
David Lynch

Film Editing by:
David Lynch

Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor

Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator

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Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen

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Plot:

(from imdb user jodiac ):

Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY

David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.

We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.

On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.

Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.

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The Film:

Lynch on The Alphabet



Original Film



The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)

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Sources:

The Alphabet on IMDB.com

The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com

David Lynch Home Page

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Mulholland Drive: Silencio Dub

"NO HAY BANDA!!! There. Is. NO. Band. But yet we hear a band"

The Original Scene



The Silencio Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)



This is the scene in David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive where the stunningly beautiful Betty & Rita (Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring) go to a late night theater called Club Silencio. The performer does a monologue varying in English, Spanish, and French about how everything is an illusion. I have done a little remixing and refixing to add a slight more musical substance to the scene. Beats and processes all done by myself. Enjoy :-)

Daft Punk: Technologic

Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: St. James Infirmary Blues

Classic Betty Boop and a truly hallucinatory animated interpretation of Cab Calloway's St. James Infirmary Blues.

Craig Welch: How wings are attached to the backs of angels

"Now Playing in the YouTube Screening Room: http://youtube.com/ytscreenroom Craig Welch takes viewers inside a surreal, meticulously crafted world to meet a mysterious protagonist and his otherworldly visitor. In this surreal exposition, we meet a man, obsessed with control. His intricate gadgets manipulate yet insulate, as his science dissects and reduces. How exactly are wings attached to the back of angels? In this invented world drained of emotion, where everything goes through the motions, he is brushed by indefinite longings. Whether he can transcend his obsessions and fears is the heart of the matter. A film without words. Directed by : Craig Welch. Produced in 1996."

Cab Calloway & Betty Boop - Minnie the Moocher (1932)

Plot: Betty Boop runs away from home with her friend, Bimbo the Dog. They end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. He is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with skull-like eyes feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and worse.

David Lynch: The Alphabet (Dub)

Credits:

Directed by:
David Lynch

Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer

Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl

Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer

Cinematography by:
David Lynch

Film Editing by:
David Lynch

Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor

Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator

-----------------------------------------

Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen

-----------------------------------------
Plot:

(from imdb user jodiac ):

Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY

David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.

We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.

On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.

Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.

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The Film:

Lynch on The Alphabet



Original Film



The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)

--------------------------------------
Sources:

The Alphabet on IMDB.com

The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com

David Lynch Home Page

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The Skeleton Dance (Disney 1929)

This is a great piece from Morbid Anatomy!

"The Skeleton Dance," Disney Silly Symphonies, 1929



Find out more about this animation here.
Posted by JE at 1:46 PM
Labels: animation, cartoon, Skeleton