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Sunday 26 September 2010

Anemone


made for the 48 hour film project 2010, Machinima category. Winner of best cinematography. Conceived, and performed in Second Life, London and Sao Paulo; by David and Samara; music by m4sk 22, much love and thanks to Lorna.
compulsory contest elements:
character; Jack or Jackie Schmidt; a Journalist.
prop: water.
line" "there is something I can do that you can't"

Tuesday 17 August 2010

motorcake (pig out mix)


cake is murder. Starring Sam Porco and Carrie Pyro. Music and machinima by M4SK 22.
The original Motorcake was a song written by Gary Yeahbutwhat (simo) in Manchester in the mid 80s, based on Motorhead by Hawkwind, this is a progressive rebake of the theme.

Tuesday 3 August 2010

the temple


I am you, you are me, we are we, 1.2..3...
music and video by M4SK 22 with amazing painting by Hannah Woolham.

Monday 19 July 2010

social eyes


Music and Video by M4SK 22. 3rd of a trilogy of songs and videos jamming on the theme of virtual worlds. We are your Automatic Lovers. How real are relationships in the social media era, what is reality anyway?
Thanks to Samara, Izzy, and Pep.

Monday 12 July 2010

faster sound asleep


2nd of a trilogy of songs and videos jamming on the theme of virtual world. An enduring dream sequence, much love and gratitude to Samara and Colleen.

Friday 2 July 2010

Freedom Games


1st of a trilogy of songs and videos jamming on the theme of virtual worlds. Freedom is a game, a myth, a lie, a mask. Games are freedom, liberation, obsession, addiction. Freedom is within the game.
Video shot in lots of different places in Second Life, many thanks to Samara.

Monday 28 June 2010

The Spindle of the Dowie Dens


Words and Music by M4SK 22. Video by M4SK 22 vs Night of the Living Dead by George Romero.

Saturday 19 June 2010

Your Mask


this was a strange day...look what we did, nothing much to add about this one, it happened.

Tuesday 15 June 2010

where clouds go


the lightest breath blows clouds away, a diversion into something a bit nice, dedicated to baby Erin born that day we did this.

Thursday 10 June 2010

Brujitas. Copa Mundial 2010


Latin Jazz really, with Pharaoh Sanders on flugelhorn (we dreamed that part)
The World Cup song by M4SK 22, music and video by m4sk 22. It has been suggested that Football is more important than life and death. Football is a cultural drug that transcends the users, there is a collective surrender of existence to the beautiful game. The world cup is a great moment when nations meet in a cultural performance. A Brujita is a little witch in Espanol; in this context a magician of football, a sorcerer of skill and beauty. M4SK 22 salutes the fantasistas, the playmakers, the malandros, the tricksters, the wizards and the little witches. The film is composed from various sources, most fittingly an appearance from Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) the Brazilian cult horror character/writer/director. Other scenes include footage from Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico, and newsreel of a 1960s Women's international football match. As lifelong football addicts, M4SK 22 have always enjoyed World Cups for the chance to see players and styles of play from different countries, and the greatest thing is the difference.

Saturday 1 May 2010

Betsy Liora


Betsy Liora, welcome world. Music and Film by M4SK 22, with footage from Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! Dedicated to Betsy and Liora, beautiful babies born 22nd and 23rd April 2010. A progression of the Journey theme, where east meets west, north meets south, up meets down, and all locations are here and now. The people are wherever they have to be, turning the planet with their feet as they walk through the ritual existence. Musically inspired somewhere between Faust, Durutti Column and Pharoah Sanders.

Sunday 4 April 2010

The Villagers.


The 1981 Chigley Fayre is a legendary free festival that took place on the Chigley common land after the original site at Camberwick Green was abandoned due to a concerted attempt by the Local Police force to deter festival goers, by all means necessary. The festival organisers were similarly hard nosed and were determined to have their Fayre, so some wily folk led the Trumpton constabulary (PC McGarry) on a wild goose chase across the meadows by Trumpton henge, while an alternative site on Chigley Common was located and prepared. A plasticine Nik Turner brought his pyramid stage, the bands set up, even the Police decided to turn on, tune in and subsequently dropped out...and the party commenced as the sun went down.
music and film by m4sk 22; footage from Dziga Vertov's Cheloveks kino-apparatom, an experimental 1929 silent documentary film from the Soviet Union.

Wednesday 31 March 2010

Lancastria


Lancastria...Valley of the cardboard robots. In many ways the first song we did together, but not the first we put out.

Monday 22 March 2010

the wood engine.


Music and Video by M4Sk 22. The song grows from woodland field recordings.The Wood Engine is the great engine of the earth.Video made with remixed footage from 1951 Swedish film; Hon Dansade En Sommar, and some shots from the Burning Man Festival.
A bit long, sliding slowly from a blend of proto electronica meets Zu in a dark alley somewhere near Swinton, then somehow becoming orchestral soul.

The 80s detective.


On a Shoestring.

fire bridge.


fire bridge...heavy rock?

Sunday 21 February 2010