Movies: Cory Arcangel

Mario's world is falling apart....

A surf through subway.com and its associated social media accounts, a vast web-content empire including Jared’s Journey, videos with nutrition experts, testimonies from former Olympians, and tips for opening your own franchise....

Cory Arcangel is one of a group of artists who work within the strict limitations and visual styles imposed by early digital technologies and media. For I Shot Andy Warhol, Arcangel reprogrammed a 1980s Nintendo videogame, Hogan's Alley, and populate...

From The Year of the Troll Tour...

In Clouds, Cory took an old Super Mario Brothers Nintendo video game and erased everything but the clouds....

Drei Klavierstuke is a recreation of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) made by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from Youtube....

In February 2005, YouTube was launched and forever changed our relationship to moving images, both as viewers and producers. But even well before then, the web had made a large variety of new materials accessible to see and to download, as well as up...

A screen capture of pre-set iMovie transition graphics....

Goldberg Variation #1 re-constructed with instrumental instructional videos downloaded from YouTube....

A short film and video installation by Cory Arcangel...

Continuing his investigation into the intersection of culture and technology in the context of the handmade, here Arcangel explores the "mash-up," in which music fans digitally merge two songs to create unexpected hybrids. Arcangel's experiment pushe...

In Naptime, the visuals were made first, and then the music added at the end by Paul B. Davis....

Video Ravingz is a hacked version of Mario 2 where the user wins the game simply by inserting the cartridge. With rave-style graphics and music, there's an air of celebration about this work because everyone's a winner....

Filmed at Urbandale Plaza in the eastern suburbs of Buffalo N.Y., "Urbandale" is a study of America's suburban sprawl stripped to its barest essentials and void of unnecessary contemporary cultural influence. The film, rendered in text, focuses on th...