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This is a Super 8 short film by Sukho made for Flicker LA’s annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels in 2006. Attack… is a crazy film festival wherein the filmmakers receive a roll of Super 8 film, shoot it, editing in camera as they go, then return the roll with a soundtrack. No one sees their film until the night of the festival. Editing in camera means no editing after it’s shot, which means every shot has to be perfect – no 2nd takes. The cut you see here was re-edited later to fix a few things but mostly is unchanged.

Karappo City Blues stars Lun*na Menoh of Jean Paul Yamamoto and the main song is performed by her. Big thanks to the entire cast and crew for all their hard work and patience. In case it isn’t obvious, Lun*na is a big fan of Japanese 70s B-Movie star Meiko Kaji and this is pretty much a tribute to her and the type of exploitation cinema she was famous for. There was a recent U.S. feature that also borrowed heavily from her films – it even used a song from one of them – but consider this perhaps a bit more sincere and heartfelt than that feature.

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This is an early ’90s music video made by Sukho for a shock rock band called The Spo-It’s. The technique was similar to Sukho’s The End Times video – using two VCRs to edit two separate collages and mixing them together in a studio. The difference here is the use of not just found footage but live band footage as well.

By the way, if you are easily offended by nudity, bondage, etc. you may want to avoid watching this.

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Sukho Lee directed this music video for The Secret Society of the Sonic Six. Eight months in the making and shot entirely on 16mm film, this video is meant to emulate a 1970s Giallo film (Italian pulp suspense mystery genre). Cinematography by Jason Tosta and Steve Carter and lots of help from very generous friends: Sherry Spencer, Christian Tants, Matt Average (Matt’s production stills here), Victor White, Heather Heerema, Anthony Pellegrino, Barbara Radlein, Shawn Bennett, Erik Deutschman, Sandy Tosta, Jason Heath, Reverend Al, and Relah Eckstein.

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Sukho Lee directed this super8 film featuring none other than THE Harvey Sid Fisher! The music was written and performed by Harvey himself. Harvey is most famous for his Astrology Songs album and videos but he’s still around and he’s still writing and performing funny, clever, and insightful songs.

This premiered at the 2007 Attack of the 50 Foot Reels film festival hosted by Flicker LA in which none of the films are edited – just shot as is, in sequence, and turned in undeveloped. The soundtrack is turned in separately. All this requires you to keep track of every single shot and its duration in order to synchronize properly with the sound, and if you need to switch locations back and forth that means you have to physically go back and forth too. Oh, and there are no second takes.

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Seksu Roba’s Sukho has been active making short films and videos. Here is a music video he directed for the band, The Parallelograms, for the song Hurt Like a Heart Attack from the current release, Adult Contemporary.

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While Seksu Roba has been in hibernation, Sukho has been active making short films and videos. Here is a music video he directed for the unique and haunting L.A. band, The Secret Society of the Sonic Six, for the song Tracers.

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Here is some footage I shot and edited together from Jean Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman’s live performance in Hollywood, CA at the Knitting Factory on August 31, 2006. For those who don’t know who Jean Jacques Perrey is, your life is incomplete! He is, simply put, one of the fathers of electronic music. Visit his website and get acquainted. We recommend Moog Indigo (from 1968) as a fine starting point – also pick up any Perrey and Kingsley compilation (they are readily available), and he has a brand new CD called The Happy Electropop Music Machine he recorded with Cool and Strange Magazine’s former editor Dana Countryman, which you can purchase at www.coolcds.com.

Click Here for set of pictures I took from their performance.

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George Clinton is truly one of Earth’s great musical masters and certainly one of Seksu Roba’s most revered and worshipped music producers/writers/creators. This is a rare televised performance from the Late Night With David Letterman program on NBC and it demonstrates George Clinton’s power to motivate even the most awkward of feet to dance on national television. We don’t know the exact air date of this but estimate it to be late 80’s. Here he performs the classic Parliament jam, Get Up For The Down Stroke.

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One of Earth’s best music videos ever, Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. Designed by James Rizzi, Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel.

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Guido Manuli is an Italian animator known more for his collaborations with Bruno Bozzetto on Allegro Non Troppo and other films. But his own work is worth seeking out if you can find it. This video is from a VHS compilation of his work entitled Guido Manuli: Animator (Expanded Entertainment, 1990) which doesn’t appear to be available on DVD yet. Unfortunately, the VHS does not credit who did the music for this which is a shame because we love the song!

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