Takeshi Murata (poor quality clip!)

Amazing clip from video artist Takeshi Murata filmed on my pissy little camera. The real thing is obviously a thousand times better (stunning in fact.)

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Film & Animation

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• Takeshi
• Murata
• video
• art
• contemporary
• stan
• brakhage

[xcrispusattucksx]

Thank you for uploading this. Did you record this at the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington D.C.? I saw it there a few months ago and thought it was pretty mindblowing. I was disappointed that really nothing of Takeshi Murata's work can be found online. So yeah, thanks for this! I think it is called "Untitled (Pink Dot)."

[michaelcrowe]

Thanks! Yes,I recorded it at the Hirshhorn. I've a couple more clips of the other films he had on there, which I'd have uploaded here sooner, but my camera misses all the extraordinary detail unfortunately.

[margaux666999]

that technique is called Data Moshing. there's pretty good tutorials on utube that explains correctly how to do it with any video.

[chadvonnau]

Most modern video codecs are made up of keyframes and in between frames. The keyframes are full images, but the in between frames only record what has changed from the previous frame. When it's working correctly, it creates the illusion of continuous sequential images, but with much smaller file sizes. Takeshi is manipulating this process in a way where he is arbitrarily inserting and removing keyframes, so that the inbetween frames (which represent motion) become the focus...

[maskedavenger94]

filmed with your asshole?

[boogiebuddy01]

so beautiful

[FarCryss]

dosfiend you're a pussy

[dosfiend3]

I saw this today at the Wisconsin film festival. I have to say it really gave me a headache. I appreciate the design but its really too much of a sensory overload.

[lolXDimcool]

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[boogiebuddy01]

oh mister no it all are you

[tootite4liph]

The secrets of Takeshi Murata - he turns the video files into to text. when the videos are in text form he manipulates them by deleting code etc. apparently he did a lot of commercial work so he was around tech savy guys and this is how he learned.

[chadvonnau]

There's a lot more that he's doing to get from what I just described to a video like what you see above, but I'm pretty sure that's the essence of this technique. As far as HOW he actually does this, I dunno, magic?