27 April 2004 - 0 Comments
This year, Flying Nun presents its very first DVD titled, 'Very Short Films' cited for release on May 10th, 2004. It contains a mammoth 41 videos produced for Flying Nun Records artists from 2004 back to 1981. The total running time has been pegged at around two and half hours, which is feature length in the film world.
A lot of the video films feature the bands ‘performing’ direct to camera (with and without makeup), several of them have driving motifs, and plenty of ‘em were made with extremely limited resources. Despite all this, the creativity and ingenuity on display is incredible and demonstrates a healthy progression of video-making in New Zealand over the last twenty odd years.
All the fun times are captured and presented in a user friendly chronological format and our test audiences have found the cameo-spotting to be an excellent source of enjoyment – not to mention the memories that were evoked upon viewing some of the rarer material.
We could go on about the 4:3 aspect ratio, the all regions PAL format, the Dolby 2.0 stereo sound, but the exciting stuff is actually finding out what we have included, so here it is:
‘VERY SHORT FILMS’ TRACKLISTING
1. The Clean - Anything Could Happen
2. Bored Games - Bridesmaid
3. Doublehappys - Needles And Plastic
4. Gordons - Adults And Children
5. Children’s Hour - Carolines Dream
6. Verlaines - Death and the Maiden
7. The Great Unwashed - Neck Of The Woods
8. The Chills - Pink Frost
9. Sneaky Feelings - Husband House
10. Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat
11. Bird Nest Roys - Alien
12. The Bats - North By North
13. Skeptics - Agitator
14. Snapper - Buddy
15. Tall Dwarfs - Nothing’s Going To Happen
16. Straitjacket Fits - She Speeds
17. Able Tasmans - Hold Me 1
18. The Cakekitchen - Dave The Pimp
19. Headless Chickens - Gaskrankinstation
20. S.P.U.D. - Breakdown Town
21. David Kilgour - You Forget
22. Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly
23. The Renderers - Bigger Than Texas
24. J.P.S. Experience – Precious
25. 3Ds - Hey Seuss
26. Dribbling Darts Of Love - Hey Judith
27. Bailterspace - Splat
28. Bike - Save My Life
29. Garageland - Fingerpops
30. Solid Gold Hell - Bitter Nest
31. Superette - Touch Me
32. Loves Ugly Children - Voodoo Girl
33. Bressa Creeting Cake - Palm Singing
34. The Subliminals – The Crystal Chain
35. Betchadupa - Spill The Light
36. HDU – Schallblute
37. The D4 - Exit To The City
38. The Hasselhoff Experiment - Drag Racer
39. Stephen Malkmus - Death and the Maiden
40. PanAm - Interstate Boy
41. The Mint Chicks - Post No Bills
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