RES hits the LES (Photo: STV)

The Delancey wound down the weekend with last night's launch party for the November/December issue of RES Magazine, which spends most of its 80 pages profiling envelope pushers in sound and music. Naturally, there is film, too--Michel Gondry receives surprisingly little space to discuss his Dave Chappelle collaboration Block Party, while composer Michael Andrews writes at length about writing movie soundtracks "houses for sound."

But at risk of shilling for the magazine, I do want to recommend the issue's DVD supplement featuring some fairly breathtaking shorts and music videos. Oliver Conrad's Restroom has the woman icon from a bathroom sign traversing the New York City subway on a journey of quasi-self-discovery (you just have to see it), while the German import Parasite continues the mass transit theme with a series of images projected from a moving car onto the pitch-black tunnel walls. The best short is probably Marc Beurteaux's Robota, a a stop-motion piece about a disabled robot gambling his way to redemption; it might just be my proclivity to films made entirely with Legos in a basement over the course of years, but I think my appreciation is well-placed.

Speaking of appreciation, the disc boasts nothing better than Icelandic duo Arni & Kinski's video for Sigur Ros' song "Glosoli." Kind of a dream-state hybrid of Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Pan, it is three stunningly beautiful minutes of kids marching to oblivion, the ocean, either or both. I cannot figure it out, and to some degree, I just do not want to know. I also do not know how non-subscribers can get their hands on a copy, but Universal News might carry some issues with DVDs if you feel like shopping around. I could think of far less constructive uses of $6, and most of them involve other magazines or newspapers. So hey--your call.