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Part of a series of friendly video art competitions to create a work from a collection of supplied found footage, this piece centers on Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 royal visit to New Zealand, following her recent coronation. It was created in February 2004 for The Remix Project (v2.04).

Tension is created by use of the post-colonial gaze, and corresponding recent developments in the revisionist historical perspective. “Koro” is a colloquial Maori term for elder (with the capital K also standing for rebellion and radicalism), and “Nation” implies a sense of collective identity, and through that, accountability. The soundtrack is a dissonant drum ‘n’ bass/maori chorale “mash-up” of New Zealand band Shapeshifter’s “DNA (Pylonz Remix)” and “Po Atarau (Now Is The Hour)” by the Aotearoa Maori Chorale, which serves to further highlight the contrast between old and new.

This 30 second short film was created for the rADz (Radical Art Ad) series in November 2000.

“Radical Art Ads” are short, Haiku-like art films — ads that don’t sell anything. With ad-space during off-peak times being relatively cheap, Wellington-based producer Barry Thomas hit upon the idea of using these spaces to make very short films. Without any commercial incentive behind them and using Creative NZ funding, this was an innovative and unique way to nurture emerging talent. Screened in NZ by TV3, TV4 and Sundance Channel across their daily schedule (including prime time).

The visuals include a live audio visualisation generated from the soundtrack “Asturias (I. Albeniz)” performed by guitarist Timothy Dean Walker.

Created as a temporary site-specific installation for the ‘Elect Them All’ Arts Festival (February 2004).

Sat behind the bar throughout the festival on permanent loop, this film contains snippets of ‘They Live’ (dir. John Carpenter), the tongue-in-cheek music video for “Love For Sale” (from the movie True Stories) by Talking Heads and various contemporary TV advertisements. The idea was to catch viewer’s attention in an indirect way, with references to alternative narrative structures appearing in the middle of what would be ordinary television advertising – thereby alerting them to embedded consumer-based narrative that may exist within TV commercials.

Created for the BBC Radio 1’s “Superstar VJ” Competition, to promote the open source licensing model of hundreds of clips from the BBC Creative Archive Group.

All music ©2005 Blue Leaf (Creative Archive License terms apply).

Music

Mixtapes of alternative cover versions, interspersed with cinematic dialogue.

Prefabricated Audio Constructions (Volume 1)

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Track Title Artist Buy Track
Straight to Hell Amy Loftus and Will Kimbrough
Scarborough Fair Another Fine Day
Claire de Lune (Suite Bergamasque, No. 3) Isao Tomita
Bridge Over Troubled Water Johnny Cash
The Scientist Willie Nelson
Love Will Tear Us Apart Nouvelle Vague
Love Me Tender Nicholas Cage
Your Song (Blackmill Dubstep Remix) Ellie Goulding
All Cried Out Fink
Rebel Rebel Seu Jorge
Eleanor Rigby Richie Havens
Fine Day (Pirates Mix) Kirsty Hawkshaw
Whole Lotta Love Ike & Tina Turner
Iron Man (First Try) The Cardigans
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague
What I Ate David Shrigley
An Airbag Saved My Dub Easy Star All-Stars
Prefabricated Audio Constructions (Volume 2)

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Track Title Artist Buy Track
Tom's Diner (Remix) DNA (feat. Suzanne Vega)
Good Vibrations Nina Hagen
Immigrant Song Karen O, Trent Reznor, Atticus Rose
Whole Lotta Love (live at Bush Hall) Gabriella Cilmi
Come On Eileen No Doubt
Making Plans For Nigel Nouvelle Vague
Sea of Love Cat Power
Big Rock Candy Mountain Van Dyke Parks
Angelica (live) Lamb
Just Be Good To Green (Radio Edit) Professor Green (feat Lilly Allen)
Rolling In The Deep (The Soundmen Remix) Adele
Sunshine of Your Love Ella Fitzgerald vs Rockers Hi-Fi
Killing Me Softly Omara Portuondo
Le Freak The Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain
Only Love Can Break Your Heart St. Etienne
Instant Karma Paul Weller
prefabricated-audio-constructions-vol-3

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Track Title Artist Buy Track
The Model The Balanescu Quartet
Chhupke Kaun Aya Usha Uthup
Love Is The Drug Grace Jones
Dub Be Good To Me The Ting Tings
Guns Of Brixton Nouvelle Vague
Rebel Rebel Rickie Lee Jones
Sound Of Silence Soul Vendors & The Gaylads
El Ritmo Del Silencio Los Mustang
The Sound of Silence Nouela
Hurt Jonny Cash
Everybody Wants To Rule The World Lorde
Human Nature Miles Davis
Thriller Imogen Heap
Enter Sandman Richard Cheese
Waiting For The Man OMD
Wish You Were Here The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

I also collaborate with live musicians.

VJ Woody at Summerdayze (with Armin van Buren), 2005Find out more
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