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Perfect Film
Ken Jacobs
1985, 23:57 min, color and b&w, sound

Comprised of newsreel out-takes purchased by Jacobs for $5 on Canal Street, Perfect Film depicts the news as "a daily tidal sweep and very little of what we learn can stick, and move us to take action towards the control of events. Anything may be revealed for a day and then it must clear the stage immediately."

Permutations
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
1976, 10 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on HD video

The artist's sister is the subject of this structuralist work, which was originally created as a film. Cha herself appears in a single frame.

Phantom Cities (Composite)
Rita Myers
1987-90, 21:47 min, color, sound, single-channel version

phantom. menace.
Sondra Perry 
2023, 3:29 min, color, sound, HD video

This video was initially part of a sculptural installation, comprised of a barbershop station extracted from Perry’s Newark studio (a former salon) — shelves, mirror and all. In the video, the artist crosses the screen in a shot that reflects where the viewer would have stood in the original...

Philly
Hannah Wilke
1977, 32 min, b&w, sound

Philly documents a 1976 performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which Wilke interacts with Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Edited by John Sanborn, the piece juxtaposes behind-the-scenes dialogue and preparations with the performance itself, showing us a playful Wilke.

Philosophy in the Bedroom
Peggy Ahwesh 
1993, 16:17 min, color, sound, Super 8mm film on video

A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk.

Pick-up
Vito Acconci 
1971, 16:50 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

This is one of several exercises that explore the notion of extreme concentration. Blindfolded, Acconci attempts to intuite the position of another person's hands over his body.

Pictures of the Lost
Barbara Buckner
1978, 22:58 min, color, silent

Composed in twenty-two movements that coalesce into a haunting psychic journey, the enigmatic Pictures of the Lost evokes states of heightened consciousness, symbolic and ritual gesture, and spiritual transformations. Buckner's dreamlike, rhythmic visions, rendered in saturated hues, create a...

Pilobolus and Joan
Ed Emshwiller
1973, 57:40 min, color, sound

Pilobolus and Joan is a dance/narrative journey of transformation, a theatrical search for self and love based on Carol Emshwiller's story Metamorphosed. In this inversion of Kafka's Metamorphosis, a cockroach awakens as a man — actually a four-man being, as enacted here by members of the...

Pilot
General Idea
1977, 28:56 min, color, sound

Produced for public television broadcast in Ontario, this witty survey of General Idea's early work takes the form of a prime-time newsmagazine, with General Idea as the subject. Hosts AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal describe their collective transformation from young strivers to "famous, glamorous artists," and the diversification of the General Idea media empire. Using a library of clips, they recount General Idea's public performances, films, magazine projects, and fashion designs.