Titles with or about Vito Acconci

My Word

1973-74, 91:30 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence. The written text alternates with images of Acconci, alone in the interior of an urban loft or on a rooftop, with the skyline of downtown New York as a backdrop. This metaphorical landscape of isolation resonates in the text, in which Acconci directly addresses several different women by name, alluding to their relationships with him. The women's identities seem mutable; they are consigned to silence, others without a voice. Given the unstable nature of subjectivity in his work, Acconci ultimately appears to be "speaking" to himself.

 
 

This is a video transfer of a work initially shot on film. This is best shown as a projection, to reflect the original medium.
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Ordering & Fees

  
Educational Rental
DVD NTSC
$150.00
 
Screening Rental
DVD NTSC
$250.00
 
Blu-Ray
$330.00
 
Digital File
$330.00
 
BetaSP, DVcam, MiniDV NTSC
$350.00
 
BetaSP, DVcam, MiniDV PAL
$800.00
 
Exhibition Rental
DVD NTSC
$1,300.00
 
Blu-Ray
$1,380.00
 
Digital File
$1,380.00
 
Educational Purchase
DVD NTSC
$600.00
 
Archival Purchase
BetaSP NTSC
$1,600.00
 
BetaSP PAL
$1,900.00
 
Digital Beta NTSC
$2,250.00
 
Digital Beta PAL
$2,550.00