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"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anchors the displacement of (filmic) reality and the alienation of the (players) self. Devices such as incongruity between the image and the soundtrack, odd camera angles, and plays on objective focus are integral and explicit components of the narrative... It is shot in black and white with very sensual, very seductive photography." - Alice Weiner
Premiered as a live performance at The Poetry Project in 2010, Am I From Brooklyn? betrays Lampert's interest in the spectacle of sentiment, especially at the mercy of consumer technology. Using the now obsolete but once popular home-movie format super-8 film, Lampert runs through a sequence of scenes from a life imagined had he grown up in three different ethnic neighborhoods in Brooklyn (as opposed to his hometown St. Louis).
This classic documentary is both character study and social commentary — a portrait of DeVito's grandmother, Adeline LeJudas, and a telling critique of a patriarchal society. Interviewed by DeVito in her Brooklyn home, Adeline recounts the violence she suffered at her abusive husband's hands,...
The ironic themes and strategies of the Soap Opera Series continue in this postmodern tale of artistic and sexual crises in Southern California. Boredom and alienation, the banality of fantasies and reality, and the need for idealized romance afflict the cliche-driven characters that wander...
Dunye employs home movies, old film clips and her own spare visuals to sketch an oblique portrait of her older brother. The soundtrack, built around memory and anecdotes, grapples with the difficulties of portraiture while also revealing, almost as asides, pointed moments from Dunye's family...
Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. An eerie electronic score from 1969 floats over ghostly processed images; the result is a paean to the way the future was.
Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes is a freewheeling portapak time capsule that captures the collective spirit of Ant Farm's life and work in California in the early 1970s. The artists use the early portable camera as an interactive sketchbook. Writes Chip Lord: "It's an anthology of clips from the first year of living with a Portapak and it gives a fairly good representation of the way we lived in those days - collectively, loosely, improvisationally."
Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with Cunningham moving among the other dancers as a clown-like figure "who falls in love with a society whose rules he doesn't know," and concludes much in the...
Antiques of Advertising
Alexander Kluge
1988, 15 min, b&w and color, sound, German with English subtitles.
Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between desire and commodities. For instance, footage of the Hitler youth with "S" shirts performing a swastika is overlaid with an ad for "Stabil." Products...
