Exile

Zoe Beloff

2018 , 50:47 min, color, sound, HD video

Writes Zoe Beloff: "The philosopher Walter Benjamin and his friend playwright Bertolt Brecht spent time together in exile from Nazi Germany. Exile imagines that they are still in exile in New York, 2017. In the intervening years they have changed—in the contemporary world, refugees and victims of racism look different. Brecht is Iranian. Benjamin is African American. The down-at-heel comic duo are vagabonds in the tradition of Laurel and Hardy or Vladimir and Estragon; they are still doing what they always did, showing us how society works with whatever they have to hand—words, images, and suggestions on how to tell the truth in a world full of lies. Unfixed, oscillating between their time and ours, Brecht and Benjamin reveal what has been buried in our own history, making connections between fascism in New York in the 1930s and its manifestation in the Trump era."

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)

Mike Kelley

2000, 29:44 min, b&w, sound

Kelley has constructed a half-hour drama inspired by a photo found in a high school yearbook. The original, a still from a school play, depicts two young men in a shabby apartment. From this image Kelley has re-staged a 'Domestic Scene': the protagonists' unnerving, at times histrionic, relationship.

Eyes On The Prize

Lawrence Weiner

1999, 18 min, color, sound

Face of the Earth

Vito Acconci 

1974, 22:18 min, color, sound

Acconci's face becomes a metaphorical theater for a narrative drama of the mythic American landscape. With language as a catalyst, the artist conducts a riveting examination of his own identity through American cultural mythologies.

Face to Face

Vito Acconci 

1972, 15 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

In this exercise in nonverbal communication, Acconci explores facial expressions, and their psychological resonance, as a mode of performance narrative.

Face-Off

Vito Acconci 

1973, 32:57 min, b&w, sound

Face-Off is an ironic collusion of private and public, of exposure and masking, a tense ritual wherein Acconci divulges and then censors his self-revelations. Acconci turns on a reel-to-reel audiotape recorder and bends down to the speaker to listen to it, his face barely visible in the frame....

Fade to Black

Tony Cokes and Donald Trammel 

1990, 32:51 min, color, sound

In FADE TO BLACK, Cokes and Trammel assemble a chronology of stereotyped cinematic representatives of African-Americans and a series of subjective narratives of racism in everyday social exchanges, constructing what he terms the "details of an ideology," both on and off the screen.

Fall NYC

Maggie Lee

2014, 1:51 min, color, sound

Fall NYC compiles glimpses of an autumnal New York City. Writes artist Whitney Claflin: “In Maggie’s videos, documentary and fantasy play b2b sets—the mundane is transformed into the magical almost immediately, only to have the next frame bring an action right back into its earthly setting. In Fall NYC, sound swerves across the scene as Maggie carries us with her around town. Blips of upbeat dance music ride over the visuals, woven un-Shazaamably with spoken words.”

Family Tyranny/Cultural Soup

Paul McCarthy. With Mike Kelley.

1987, 15:03 min, color, sound

Writes McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for one day alone and one day with Mike Kelley. I asked Mike Kelley to be the son and I...

Fascination with the [Game of the] Exploding [Historical] Hollow Leg

Martha Rosler

1983, 52:53 min, color, sound

This tape documents a multimedia installation with performance elements, which includes a simulated war room with altered maps, nuclear-weapons descriptive material, recruitment posters, military clothing, a slide show of U.S. and European protest marches and posters, giant newspaper collages, a...