Al Griffin - Video, Music, Bio
VIDEO - HELLBENDER FILM PROJEKT (Al Griffin - Video / Adam Kendall - Music)
MUSIC - HELLBENDER STUDIO (Al Griffin and Adam Kendall - Music)Untitled (Birds and Move) (1:07 / 9.3mb) Excerpt of the full-length a/v piece from the upcoming Eyewash compilation DVD. Video by Al Griffin and Adam Kendall; Music by Adam Kendall.
Horizontal (2:17 / 18.6mb) A/V piece in the Synaesthesiologists' "Global Audio Visuals Now" segment of The 2004 New York Video Festival
009/Been Done (short excerpt) (1:01 / 4.9mb) Live a/v at Impulse Response, Troy, NY
007/Bendy Sine (short excerpt) (1:29 / 4.5mb) Live a/v at Impulse Response, Troy, NY
003/Randomizer (short excerpt) (0:59 / 5.3mb) Live a/v at Impulse Response, Troy, NY
Stacks (0:22 / ---) no audio
Crescent Star (0:19 / ---) no audio
Silent Gulls (0:15 / 5.2mb) Adam Kendall performing in front of Al Griffin's video
Hellbender's first incarnation.
Crescent Star (old mix) (3:47/3.6mb) Function:Transform:Humanize EPBIO - AL GRIFFIN (February 2005)
Fatwah! (3:53/3.9mb) Function:Transform:Humanize EP
Arizona (3:08/3mb) Function:Transform:Humanize EP
El Mundo Meat (2:15/2.19mb) Function:Transform:Humanize EP
Mr. Softee (4:04 / 3.87mb) Mr. Softee EP
Jonestown (3:10 / 3mb) Mr. Softee EP
Softee Revealed (3:31 / 3.4mb) Mr. Softee EP
Video Word Made Flesh (5:35 / 5.35mb) Mr. Softee EP
Al Griffin is a video artist living in Buffalo, NY, and working in both Buffalo and New York City. He composes and improvises his visuals using original and found videos and Super8 films, and he works solo, as half of Hellbender Film Projekt (with Adam Kendall), and with the electro-acoustic musicians Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko Nagai). He has performed in New York City at ABC No Rio, Share, F:T:H, Eyewash, Flux Factory, and the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema / Collective Unconscious. He has performed at the Impulse Response series in Troy, NY, his works have been presented in Japan, and his pieces have been included in the 2004 New York Video Festival via the "Synaesthesiologists" video-jukebox, in the 2005 Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota School of Music, and in the "Eyewash Volume II" compilation DVD of emerging New York City video artists.