Carre describes this piece as "... an attempt to show how technology intervenes in all of our physical and social relationships."

Japan in Paris in L.A. centers on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes, only to find that ethnic and cultural differences stand in his way. Around this narrative, the Yonemotos construct a multi-layered and...

A collection of brief videotaped encounters on one of Asher's travels to Japan. More poetic than ethnographic, the works playfully read the surfaces of Japanese modern life as it reacts to its American visitor.

Japan Tapes # 1 1997, 7:42 min, color, sound

It's Your Day 1997, 1:14 min, color,...

At once charming and disconcerting, Jennifer, Where Are You? depicts a young girl as she sloppily applies lipstick to her face while an unseen male figure calls out her name in search of her. The film, although punctuated at 30-second intervals by the relentless repetition of "Jennifer, where are...

Jet Set Willy Variations consists of modifications of the 1984 video game Jet Set Willy. The original game was made for the obsolete British computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which was popular in the early 1980s. "These versions of Jet Set Willy...become increasingly more abstract, finding...

Ken Jacobs writes, "Jonas remains most famous for not acting famous. Here he can be seen away from film audiences, dawdling in the cosmos while history happens elsewhere (unless we are mistaken, and the most meaningful and revealing moments are the moments at ease)."

In this dialogue between the audience and Beuys, recorded at the New School for Social Research in New York, the artist presents his theories of art as "social sculpture" and interacts with the audience. (Audience members included Claes Oldenburg and Al Hansen.)The evident tension in the audience...

Flaunting the burlesque theatricality of a surreal, post-punk cabaret, Jump is a wildly stylized collaboration between Atlas and French choreographer Philippe Découflé. Within the campy, self-conscious decadence of a French music hall milieu (lavishly sculpted and painted costumes, extravagant...

Jumps is the last in a triptych of performances in which Myers attempts to escape the space of closed-circuit monitoring through physical exertion. As the frame widens, Myers jumps out of view — defying the camera's gaze until gravity defies her and the frame widens again.

In Junior War, a throng of high schoolers congregates at night for a party in the woods sometime in the year 2000. A band plays, the kids get drunk, the boys and girls tepidly flirt, and groups deploy into cars for the purpose of destroying mailboxes, tee-peeing houses, breaking lawn ornaments,...