War Pigeon

Frank Heath

2017, 13:45 min, color, sound, HD video

War Pigeon invokes the use of trained pigeons as aerial photographers during World War II. In this phone call to the customer service department of a bank, the speaker describes an unnerving encounter with a suspicious bird, which has led him to question his trust in the bank’s very existence.

Warm Objects

Peggy Ahwesh 

2007, 6 min, color, silent

Produced in close collaboration with the engineering research center MIRTHE (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment), Warm Objects is a portrait of the world in uncertain and paranoid times. Utilizing MIRTHE's imaging technology and infrared photography, Ahwesh transforms scenes of everyday incidents into glimpses of our world through an alien lens.

Washington (METRO)

Peter d'Agostino

1979, 8:08 min, color, sound

In Washington (METRO), originally designed as a video installation for L'Enfant Plaza station, d'Agostino contrasts surveillance footage from the closed-circuit cameras that monitor the system with the original Pierre L'Enfant utopian plan for the city, while a bland travelogue is heard on the soundtrack.

Wassa

Philip Mallory Jones

1989, 3 min, color, sound

Shot in Burkina Faso, Wassa is a transcultural music video that unfolds with lush imagery and the evocative music of Houstapha Thiohbiano. Jones creates a dreamlike vision, capturing the vibrancy and sensuality of the everyday. This rhythmically textured work is part of his exploration of African...

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Vito Acconci 

1971, 9 min, b&w, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.

Water In Milk Exists

Lawrence Weiner 

2008, 22:52 min, color, sound, HD video

Writes Lawrence Weiner: "SITUATED WITHIN A LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN INTERACTION THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT LEAD TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH OR CO-EXIST WITH THE FORCES OF NATURE, WATER IN MILK EXISTS ATTEMPTS TO PRESENT VARIOUS CHARACTERS AT A POINT OF DISJUNCTIVE BUT SIMULTANEOUS REALITIES.... THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PLAYERS FIT WITHIN THE GENRE OF ADULT FILMS. IN FACT, THE PLAYERS ARE ADULTS."

Watermelon Heaven

Anthony Ramos

1972, 32:44 min, b&w, sound

Waterways: 4 Saliva Studies

Vito Acconci 

1971, 22:27 min, b&w, sound

Waterways comprises four minimalist exercises in which Acconci explores the formal, visual and dynamic properties of a body fluid in a controlled performance situation. Using extreme close-ups and amplified sound to force the viewer into the space of his body, he experiments with his mouth as a container for saliva, holding it in as long as possible, trying to catch it in his hands. By using a bodily fluid as art-making material, Acconci pushes the anti-aesthetic of body art to its radical extreme.

We Are Alive

Yau Ching

2010, 101:05 min, color, sound, Cantonese and Japanese with English subtitles

We Are Alive documents an experimental process of conducting media workshops in juvenile detention centers in Hong Kong, Macau, and Sapporo, Japan. A kind of collaborative project between Ching and the incarcerated teens, the subjects of the film use amateur video and sound-recording equipment to...

We Hold Where Study

Wu Tsang 

2017, 19 min, color, sound, HD video