Sink Or Swim

Lawrence Weiner

2003, 18 min, color, sound

Combining live footage with animated drawings, text, and diagrams, Sink or Swim comments on the precarious relationship between knowledge, perception and language. "With the knowledge that the Earth is flat," reads one of Weiner's gnomic phrases, "it's a snap to get to the point." With recurring visual and linguistic references to water and sky, Weiner creates a playful grammar of graphic representations.

SISKYAVI - The place of Chasms

Victor Masayesva, Jr.

1991, 28 min, color, sound

Masayesva presents the ceramic traditions of Native Americans in a provocative context: the cultural clash of Western civilization and one of the oldest, most enduring tribal groups in North America. SISKYAVI addresses the interpretation of tradition through the dynamics of intercultural...

Sister Suzie Cinema

John Sanborn in collaboration with Lee Breuer and Bob Telson. 

1985, 22:33 min, color, sound

A synthesis of video and musical theater, Sister Suzie Cinema is a "doo-wop opera fantasy" about the allure of the movies. This collaboration with theater director/writer/actor Lee Breuer — founding director of the experimental Mabou Mines theater group — and musician Bob Telson features the...

Sisters!

Barbara Hammer

1973, 8:25 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National Lesbian Conference at UCLA, Sisters! is a joyous and vital landmark in feminist, queer, and lesbian filmmaking.

Six Colorful Inside Jobs

John Baldessari 

1977, 32:53 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Six Colorful Inside Jobs is one of a series of films that Baldessari produced in the 1970s, which are newly available through EAI. Seen from a bird's eye view, a figure paints the walls and floor of a windowless room six times in six days, using each of the primary and secondary colors.

Skeleton Quipu

Cecilia Vicuña 

2014, 2:36 min, b&w, sound, HD video

Slogans

Muntadas

1987, 8:35 min, color, sound

Slogans is a visual deconstruction of advertising slogans, a literal and metaphorical illustration of the disintegration and loss of meaning of information in the contemporary "media landscape." Appropriating text from a series of familiar print advertisements — "Choose Your Weapon," "Play to...

Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)

Bruce Nauman

1968, 60 min, b&w, sound

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by Samuel Beckett that describe similarly repetitive and meaningless activities. Hands clasped behind his back, he kicks one leg up at a right angle...

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Barbara Hammer

1986, 7:42 min, color, sound

"I first heard of AIDS in 1985 when I was teaching at Columbia College in Chicago. I noticed the strange and inflammatory articles in the newspapers and I asked my students to collect hysteric headlines for me. And so I began my work on Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS. I examined the public ignorance, stigmatization, and just plain wrong attitudes towards this new illness. By making a snow storm of newspaper clippings I could show what a 'snow job' the media was making." — Barbara Hammer

Snowflake

Muntadas

1976, 24 min, b&w and color, sound

Snowflake is one of more than a dozen newly restored works by Muntadas, including early media interventions and works produced for television, which were recently made available.