Rose and Yvonne tackle the intrepid task of loading a 16mm projector in the year 2013. Wish them luck!
Extending Martin's early explorations of interactivity into a new medium, Galaxy is a web-based light and sound "cyber sculpture" where elements of varying light intensity, placement, and motion are determined by individual users. The accumulation of individuals' actions forms an on-screen...
In Galerie de portraits, André sketches the portraits of five women from among her closest friends and family (including her grandmother and daughter), composing an intimate, intensely private space. Her eloquent compositions focus on the quotidian, the richness inherent in such everyday gestures...
The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from one "container" (the pot) to another (his body).
This tape is a "feedback" dialogue inspired by the installations and single-channel works in the 1994 exhibition Gary Hill: Sites Recited at the Long Beach Museum of Art. It includes early works such as War Zone (1980), Primarily Speaking (1983), Cut Pipe (1992), and Learning Curve (still point) (19...
Generations is a film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci, a young queer filmmaker. Shooting during the last days of Astroland at Coney Island, New York, the filmmakers find that the...
In this rare portrait of Fluxus founder George Maciunas, Kubota pays homage to a mentor and fellow Fluxus artist. Maciunas is also recognized as the force behind the transformation of New York's SoHo neighborhood into an artists' district. In Kubota's ongoing video diary, she observes Maciunas as...
This complex, multi-layered work, called an "anti-documentary" by its authors, combines footage of rioting at the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa with performances by Chloe Sevigny, Werner von Delmont and members of the Black Bloc anarchist group. These elements yield a disorienting and critical video...
These richly layered video collages — of city, body, and landscape — paint a portrait of threatened spirituality in the age of fast food and fast cameras. Each is accompanied by a moving, at times meditative soundtrack. From Steve Reich's minimalist score for Numbering Numbers to Mozart's...
Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, Gift of Fire devotes fetishistic attention to what is probably the first film in history: Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince's 1888 footage of traffic crossing Leeds Bridge. Jacobs continues his intellectual...
An iPhone-shot reverie depicting poet and scholar Fred Moten letting loose to the eponymous 1965 jazz standard, performed by Josiah Wise (known professionally as serpentwithfeet). Moten twirls in slow motion with a wry smile, crystals from his flowing garb sparkling across the sun-soaked frame....
Girls | Museum is a voyage through the historical art collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig/MdbK, guided by the expertise and insights of a group of girls, ages 7 to 19. Moving from painting to painting, century to century, they tell us what they see.
In Gladia Daters, Bag constructs a grisly half-hour of television using the format of a reality dating show. Bag appears as JoJo, a weathered female contestant sporting an infant and a tracheotomy scar, who drinks and dances as her three suitors compete for a date. Punctuated with flashy...
A film based on Sergei Eisenstein's notes and drawings for an unrealized science fiction movie that he pitched to Paramount Studios in 1930. Featuring Jim Fletcher and Kate Valk in a vertically-oriented narrative about an all-glass skyscraper, the theme of Glass House is the architecture of...
"This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch to any TV station on the earth, and TV Guide will be as fat as the Manhattan telephone book." So begins Global Groove, a seminal work in the history of video art. This radical manifesto on global communications...
Going Around in Circles is an early video experiment in which Holt explores perception and point of view. A board in which five circular holes have been cut has been placed in front of the camera. Through the holes, which are covered and uncovered, five subjects are seen moving between five...
Writes Pearlstein, "A seemingly invaluable object - a white rectangular panel - is placed in the middle of a black box theater. A group of nine, each wearing an article of metallic gold clothing set upon the task of ripping it apart. They tear it to shreds, taunting, fighting and climbing all...
Robert Buck writes: "As a visual iteration of his LP, Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, artist and musician Gryphon Rue invited artists to create a video for one of the tracks. For Grass Light on Flesh, I manipulated TV news footage of the implosion of the space age Landmark Hotel and Casino in...