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O Panama
Burt Barr and James Benning 
1985, 27:19 min, color, sound

Written and directed by Barr in collaboration with filmmaker James Benning, O Panama features Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe as a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the tedious reality of the man's...

Oblique Strategist Too
Edin Velez
1984, 12:33 min, color, sound

Oblique Strategist Too is a multilayered, tangential portrait of composer Brian Eno, and an evocative essay on the creative process. Eno's perspectives on his music and working methods surface elliptically, through interviews and footage of him in the studio and in lectures. Eno emerges as a...

Ocean
Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham
2010, 100:28 min, color, sound, HD video

Charles Atlas' Ocean captures the breathtaking 2008 performances of Merce Cunningham's seminal dance work of the same title. Completed in 1994, Cunningham's 90-minute opus is an homage to composer John Cage and novelist James Joyce. Similarly, Atlas' film serves as an ode to his four-decades-long collaboration with Cunningham, who died in 2009, before the film was finished. Atlas' Ocean celebrates these histories and their relation to the intertwining of video, music and dance.

Off Limits
Rea Tajiri
1988, 7:30 min, color, sound

Writes Tajiri: "Off Limits presents an analysis of representations of the Vietnam War, the 1960s, and the Vietnamese characters that have been portrayed in the recent series of films about this subject. I juxtapose a fragment from the film of the same title, made in 1987 about Vietnam in 1968,...

Olympic Fragments
Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn
1980, 10:35 min, color, sound

Commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Fragments is a taut, expressive reinterpretation of athletic movement, a tour-de-force of dynamic editing and post-production techniques. Through sophisticated visual and aural juxtapositions, Fitzgerald and Sanborn...

OM Rider
Takeshi Murata
2013, 11:39 min, color, sound, HD video

In OM Rider, Takeshi Murata deftly weaves the aesthetics of retro-noir, video games, and Italian giallo film into a cinematic exercise in cool, narrative minimalism and distilled rebellion. In a vast desert bathed in neon hues, a misfit lycanthrope blasts syncopated techno rhythms into the night....

Open Book
Vito Acconci 
1974, 10:09 min, color, sound

In Open Book, Acconci's open mouth fills the screen. Struggling to hold his mouth open, he attempts to talk to the viewer, intoning in an almost unintelligible voice: "I'm not closed, I'm open. Come in... You can do anything with me." The controlled action is typical of the works in which Acconci sets up an implicit agreement to perform a specific act for the viewer.

Open House
Gordon Matta-Clark
1972, 41 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on HD video

In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo district. He collected discarded doors and pieces of timber and divided the interior into three openings. This piece records an opening-day site performance by the artist, Tina Girouard, Keith Sonnier, and other friends.

Openings
Vito Acconci 
1970, 14 min, b&w, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Acconci's body-based performances are often willfully provocative in their testing of physical limits and controlled actions. Here, as the camera frames Acconci's stomach in close up, he painstakingly pulls out each hair from the skin around his navel.