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Dec 18, 2005, 7:43 PM
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Hi all-
as of today, the entire 1-hour-long music film, "O" (which I completed in 2004) is available for free download at: http://www.archive.org/details/o_movie
Direct link: http://www.archive.org/download/o_movie/o_movie.avi
The download is just under 700MB - the right size to fit on a single cd-
Two smaller (46MB and 58MB respectively) subsets of the entire thing are also available for download, in case you want to see what it's like before commiting yourself to the whopping 698MB full-film download...
http://www.archive.org/...he_city/the_city.avi - The City, 58MB
http://www.archive.org/...e/pressure_valve.avi - Pressure Valve, 46MB
you will need Divx (http://www.divx.com) installed on your machine to view it - Divx6 is recommended.
I strongly recommend turning up divx codec quality levels as high as you can push them without jerkyness or playback performance issues, and turning off 'film effect' (should you find it turned on - it slows performance).
This is a film I spent a long, long time developing - it's based around an hour of my instrumental music, created over the period of about five years. The film itself came together in a much shorter period of time - around one year. And now it is available for you to download, for free.
Further details on the film can be found at http://www.omovie.cjb.net, but for the record, a short summary:
o - the mayan word for consciousness, the zen symbol of formlessness, the sound you make when you see something pretty:)
Recycling footage both old and new from past filmmakers and today's 3D artists,
Matt Bentley presents a music film with new narratives about the various aspects of life itself - war, entertainment, the digital age amongst others - tuned to the key of his music - written over the past five years.
Music and visuals carry equal focus in this 1-hour film, and each individual story is present as part of a greater framework, the cycle of a day.
Carrying the tradition of other wordless films such as Baraka & Koyaanisqatsi, 'o' presents stories using the subtle languages of sound and music.
It's a celebration of both the joy and pain of living, but not as serious as that sounds :) - there's a sense of humour at work as well as a social consciousness.
Too entertaining to be deemed 'art', too artistic to be seen as purely amusement, 'o' will delight and enlighten.
Roughly-speaking it's an hour-ten of
non-vocal (instrumental/electronic/rock) music combined with loosely-associated series of video clips slipstreamed baraka-style around 3D imagery and old-school americana archival video.
Surprisingly a year after completion I still enjoy this film, and believe in what it stood for, for me!
Enjoy!
M@
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