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The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance from...
"A table is set with two identical red books placed at diagonal corners and a stack of three poker chips placed in the center. Two women, Tina Girouard and Susanne Harris, enter the frame. Harris is wearing a red blouse, Girouard a blue blouse with a red carnation in her buttonhole. They shake...
The final installment of the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series uses the deadpan syntax of television melodrama to tell the story of Sumie, a young Japanese woman who marries an American surfer/filmmaker for the green card that will allow her to pursue her artistic career. Falling prey to the seductive...
Greetings from Amarillo uses seven songs by Hayden Pedigo to structure a portrait of the north Texas landscape.
Guadalcanal Requiem
Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman
1977, re-edited 1979, 28:33 min, color, sound
One of Paik's most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II's most devastating battles. Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands is the iconic...
X-PRZ constructs a powerful collage of rap music, authorial text, and iconic visuals to confront the politics of race in the context of the American media. Writes Tony Cokes: "Slick and easily legible Pop surface: deploying the Black male media projection as central model, heroic figure, and...
"Hack Your Face was recorded live during a participatory performance/installation event at Eyebeam in Chelsea, NY. We set up our synthesizer, Sync Armonica with an additional module (called Circuit Taco): a signal amplifier connected to a ¼ inch cable. When participants touch the cable, their...
Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life "docufantasy" starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark. Atlas' fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer serves as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture.
