Yuxtapongo

Made by the Video Art students of David Colagiovanni at UNC-CH: Laura Charlton, Matt Jones, Ben Knox, Laura Melosh, Trevor Ollar, & Jana Styblova, with titles and music by Neill Prewitt. Aired on Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough, NC public access tv througout May of 2010.  www.yuxtapongo.com 

A/V Geeks, Data Hata, Rich Gurnsey, Here Lies…, Irene Moon, Neill Prewitt, Nick Speaks, Nomad Stylo & Sweet RB

Neill Prewitt’s kinetic intro & title videos with box beats and stream of consciousness lyrics by Data Hata & Nomad Stylo; A/V Geeks’ commercial remix acting out electric identity; Nick Speaks’ black n blue vision of a performance by Raleigh metal band Here Lies…; Neill Prewitt’s Tron/Max Headroom landscape with music by Sweet RB; Rich Gurnsey’s second episode of the masterful Welcome to Creepyville; Irene Moon’s P.Dish, a mystical Super 8 short.

DL Anderson, Kevin Eugene Clark, PJ Disclafani, kinoeye,
Irene Moon, Neill Prewitt, A. Stroud & Yes! Sputnik

Featuring…
Blizzard: The Movie, PJ Disclafani’s wide-eyed letter back home staring out at the Baltimore snow, and starring Little Blue;
Memoirs of a Shaman, the first in a new series by Kevin Eugene Clark, 
Zane Beckwith, Erica Mackenzie, Katie McLean, Julianna Thomas and Jonathan Woolen;
Irene Moon’s lovely, understated snowflake;
february by Kevin Eugene Clark, a personal geography of time-lapsed photos meditating on the wintry month in Carrboro; 
Walk Don’t Run by DL Anderson, a docu-fantasy in which a former employee of Durham Big Tobacco returns to a now-abandoned factory to recover a memento. 
An offshoot of Anderson’s ongoing, three year-long photography project in the factory;
Asia Market_Test 01, a playful, foreign study by Yes! Sputnik, starring Mandi von Aswegen and with music by A. Stroud;
three new video jamz by Neill Prewitt: abstract, textural video with “chill thrill” music;
and title music by kinoeye and Neill Prewitt.

Eleanor Blake, D-Town Brass, Miles Holst, Helen Kearns, The Loners, Jessye McDowell, Irene Moon, Neill Prewitt, Nick Speaks & Yohimbe.

Nick Speaks’ pair of stunning black and white documents of Raleigh rock n roll duo The Loners; “Your Every Touch,” an endoscopy of Ellie’s belly set to a song by Neill Prewitt; Helen Kearns’ “Glossolalia,” a masterclass in vcr deconstructionism that will have you feeling the spirit; a selection of Jessye McDowell’s live video mixing for Durham’s very large jazz band D-Town Brass; Miles Holst’s “Flour Battle,” a playful tribute to 80s absurdity with a soundtrack by Raleigh audio collage duo Yohimbe; Irene Moon’s “Surprizes,” an abstract play starring elegant insect people. 

This episode aired on Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC public access tv throughout the month of February 2010.

Eleanor Blake, Kevin Eugene Clark, Jesse England, Irene Moon, Neill Prewitt, Pykrete.

An introduction from an undisclosed Mexican beach by Neill Prewitt & Eleanor Blake; Ecto by Kevin Eugene Clark, a saturated texture overload tempered by a melodic audio track; a collaboration by Neill Prewitt & Pykrete, combining independently-created controlled meditations on audio and video feedback; Global Bear by Jesse England, a deconstruction of advertisements of that cute, bouncy toilet paper bear; Aster Tide Auk by Irene Moon, the latest in Moon and friends’ series of absurdist theatre, drawing on the symbology of her European roots.

This episode aired on Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough, North Carolina public access tv throughout January of 2010.

A/V Geeks, Rich Gurnsey, Lincoln Hancock, Matt Hedt, Miles Holst, Neill Prewitt, Ben Spiker, A. Stroud, Neil Vendrick, & Weavexx. 

A new video music by Neill Prewitt all about how “Thazz the Jam”; A/V Geeks’ “The Money Shot,” breakfast cereal porn; Rich Gurnsey’s ready-for-primetime animated character study “Welcome to Creepyville”; Matt Hedt’s dramatic vignettes originally filmed as promos for Carrboro’s HaHa shoes; an excerpt of Neil Vendrick’s continuing video stream from underground NYC; Lincoln Hancock’s “Forever Walks A Drifter,” remixing a moody track by Burlington band the Monzas with a halucinatory sports and leisure vid; Miles Holst and A. Stroud’s “P_Deck Countdown,” an engrossing formal experiment called for by the experience of riding a bike down a parking deck; Ben Spiker’s “Lit My Life,” a rapid-fire cellphone photo montage rocking to a recent improvisation by Weavexx.

Aired on Raleigh and Chapel Hill, NC public access tv throughout December of 2009.

By Neill Prewitt, Negator & Lincoln Hancock. Featuring “Offices Of,” Lincoln Hancock’s celebration of the season in Raleigh, with sights from the NC State Fair and sounds from Raleigh Wide Open 4; Kiss My Love by Negator, an absurd yet passionate declaration of purpose as an artist and father; and 3 new video musics by Neill Prewitt: a look deep into the Cube, a study in dream narrative, and a long journey down the Kaleidoscope. Aired on Raleigh, Chapel Hill & Hillsborough cable access tv throughout November of 2009.

Jerstin Crosby, Craig H., Neill Prewitt, Nick Speaks, Billy Sugarfix, Z. Hobert Thompson, Neil Vendrick. 

Episode 10 features immaculate comedy by Jerstin Crosby; just a little display of the mind of Billy Sugarfix; Z. Hobert Thompson’s touching morality play; Nick Speaks’ oily document of the mulched drones of Craig H.’s guzheng; a second installment of Neil Vendrick’s mediations on living and working in New York; and 3 new video musics by Neill Prewitt including a chess master remix in the 4th dimension of horror, a delirious arcade mix, and a neo-benshi performance over of a family home movie. 

This episode aired on Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro and Hillsborough, North Carolina tv throughout October of 2009.

Yuxtapongo Episode 9 features A/V Geeks’ mystical force ad remix; Nick Speaks’ colorwash documentary of a performance by jazz group Savage Knights; Brian Risk & Billy Sugarfix’s revolutionary kitsch dance remix of masculine America; Z.H. Thompson’s 16mm dream literalization; Neil Vendrick’s verite mediation on working, class, and art; and Miles Holst & Yohimbe’s live audio/video collaboration of the last several months brought to the screen.  Intercut with Hulk Moshing by Miles Holst and Max Headroom colorbar crayon titles by Neill Prewitt.

Miles Holst, Hobert Thompson & Kate Mabe’s rewind comedy classic ‘Stay Safe, Stay Sexy;’ Lincoln Hancock’s fantasy of Raleigh’s Bain Waterworks featuring a new studio recording by Starmount; Robert Ruehlman’s future love experience; Nick Speak’s stunning yellow-green, black & red portrait of The Shards; Neill Prewitt, Mic Finger & Chateau de la Maladie’s meditation on dntwn Raleigh’s night lights.

Yuxtapongo Episode 7

A/V Geeks, Ellie Blake, Chad Byrne, Max Gustashaw, Lincoln Hancock, The Moaners, Neill Prewitt, Will Prewitt, Jeff Rehnlund, Rocket Cottage, Nick Speaks, Ben Spiker, Tinman 3000 & Weavexx.