IT SHOULDN'T BUT IT DOES (excerpt)
video/audio: Michael Sumner
All images were originally made with still cameras, both digital and film. The soundtrack was created using a broken mono cassette recorder.
(Excerpt is 2:09 of the 4:02 video.)
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music: (in progress)
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OLD Burning Books VIDEOS page.
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FILM & VIDEO PROJECTS
NORMALIZATION
(15:27) 2008
film/video: Michael Sumner
story: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Robert Ashley
Premiered at the “Word Virus” event, The Process, November 23, 2008, in Santa Fe, New Mex.
THROBBING GRISTLE 05/29/81
(07:11) 1981/2008
film/video: Michael Sumner
From the last live concert of Throbbing Gristle in the 20th century at the Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on May 29, 1981.
BETWEEN 5TH & 6TH
(16:40) 1984/2007
film/video: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Alex Neville
music: The brilliant Dullards
audio mix: Alex Neville
SEE YOU IN HELL
(03:16) 2007
video: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Elizabeth Wiseman
sound design: Dino J.A. Deane
SEE YOU IN HELL
(installation) 2006
Two video loops, two audio loops, each a different length creating constantly new juxtapositions of images and sounds.
IT SHOULDN’T BUT IT DOES
(04:02) 2004
video/music: Michael Sumner
VULCAN
(02:03) 2004
video/music: Michael Sumner
NO HEAVEN
(03:11) 2004
video: Michael Sumner
VIEW
(07:17) 1987/2009
film/video: Michael Sumner
music: (in progress)
STATIC
(03:35) 1984
film: Michael Sumner
FEATURES
(13:45) 1983
film: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
SPECIFIC INSTANCES
(07:00) 1981
film: Michael Sumner
music: “Begin Again” by Anthony Gnozzo
voice: Louise Phoenix
Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1982
HAND MADE
(05:41) 1978/2009
film/video: Michael Sumner
music: (in progress)
BLANK
(03:27) 1977
film: Michael Sumner
WALK
(03:53) 1977
film: Michael Sumner
ARTIST’S PROOF
(03:05) 1976
film: Michael Sumner