<![CDATA[Jim Batt - Updates]]>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:23:33 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Brothers Grim - 'On The Meter' Music Video]]>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:42:44 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2012/03/brothers-grim-on-the-meter-music-video.html

_At the tail end of last year I had a blast shooting this raucous and debaucherous music video for the Brothers Grim track 'On The Meter'. There is no truth to the rumours of an 'uncut' version of this video, none what so ever...
]]><![CDATA[The Year of 2011]]>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:26:27 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2012/01/the-year-of-2011.html_Last year was so very full, a wonderful time of travel, romance, new people, and inspiration, mixed with long stretches of being a good art hermit locked in my studio cave working. I sat down and wrote a list of the amazing things I was part of in the year of twenty eleven. Check it out here: www.jimbatt.tumblr.com
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]]><![CDATA[Kickstarter Successful - 'I Have Your Heart' Now In Production!]]>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:16:18 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2011/06/kickstarter-successful-i-have-your-heart-now-in-production.htmlI'm currently in the studio, hard at work on a short stopmotion animation in collaboration with artist Molly Crabapple and musician Kim Boekbinder. We successfully crowd-funded the project on Kickstarter, raising over $17,000 in donations! (Click for the full story...)
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]]><![CDATA[Amanda Palmer - Music Video]]>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:29:18 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2011/06/amanda-palmer-music-video.htmlI was extremely excited to have the opportunity over the summer to shoot a music video with the amazing force of nature that is Amanda Palmer (known to some as one half of the Dresden Dolls). We shot a beautiful video for her song 'In My Mind' in an amazing old ruined hotel, complete with decaying ballroom.


There's quite a story behind how this video came about, you can read all about it it and the benefits of seizing the moment, in a joint post that Amanda and I wrote for her blog: bit.ly/em8HV8
]]><![CDATA[The Impossible Girl - Music Videos]]>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:36:58 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2011/03/the-impossible-girl-music-videos.htmlThe wonderful music of Kim Boekbinder creates such evocative imagery, both haunting and sparkly, that it was a real pleasure to work with her on shooting these music videos. We have more videos currently in progress, but in the meantime here are the two that have been released so far.

Impossible Girl #2 - Kim Boekbinder
Stalker - Kim Boekbinder
You can check out more of Kim's music at www.theimpossiblegirl.com
]]><![CDATA[Barons of Tang - Music Video Launched!]]>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:37:43 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2010/09/barons-of-tang-music-video-launched.htmlThe music video I directed for the Barons of Tang is finally finished, and was launched at the Stucco Cooperative in Sydney last week in conjunction with the BoHo Ball's tour of debauchery and merriment. As I am in New York currently, I missed out on being present in person, but am happy to hear that the night was a huge success, supported by many other amazing acts from the vaudeville underground and topped by a typically riotous performance by the Barons themselves.
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The clip has also been released online so take a look at Villain (Stage Left) - a tale of lust and violence, moustaches and smouldering looks, told in the tradition of the Parisian Apache Dance from the speakeasies of the 1920s. (Click for more...)
]]><![CDATA[Barons of Tang - Music Video]]>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:52:15 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2010/09/barons-of-tang-music-video.htmlA month or so ago I directed an ambitious music video for Melbourne 'gypsy deathcore' band the Barons of Tang. The clip uses the ghostly aesthetic of old silent film, combined with the sex and violence of the little known Parisian Apache Dance of the 1920s.

I'm still locked in the editing cave, but a rough cut has been assembled and it's looking great! Not long now until the Villain (Stage Left) video clip is released, touring with the Barons as they join the travelling Bohemian Masquerade Ball in it's journey of chaos and debauchery across the country.

But for now, here a few teasing glimpses of what's coming...
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]]><![CDATA[Ether Live]]>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:31:26 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2010/09/ether-live.htmlI recently shot a series of live music videos for the hot new Melbourne band Ether, the first of which has just gone up on youtube. We filmed on Canon 7D's, at the Bakehouse  Studios.
]]><![CDATA[Exhibition - A Set of Forgotten Rituals]]>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:44:14 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2010/06/exhibition-a-set-of-forgotten-rituals.html
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Kat Ashworth and myself have a collaborative exhibition of photography and sculptural collage  currently up on the walls at Kent St (201 Smith St). It will be up through the rest of June, so if you get a chance, head in and check it out over a glass of mulled wine.
]]><![CDATA[The Fornax Experiment]]>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:08:26 -0800http://www.jimbatt.com/2/post/2010/04/the-fornax-experiment.htmlI've been working on a new collaboration recently, a site specific performance using sound and visuals, for the Quiet Music Festival. It will be performed in an old incinerator-turned-arts-centre this Sunday.
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THE FORNAX EXPERIMENT
A hauntological work by Jim Batt, Anastasia Russell-Head and Gus Weate, investigating the residual atmospheres of the incinerator site through evocative manipulation of sound and video. Combining live harpsichord and archaeoacoustics with subtle visual projections, the performance creates a space that entices the audience into their own imagined recollections of the past.

The project has been getting quite a bit of attention, including an interview with The Age 'Recovering The Music Of Ashes'.

Here's a moody photo from a late night tech run, calibrating the lab equipment.
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