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A documentary about TVTV shot by one of its own members, this first segment of WNET/Thirteen's VTR series was produced while the collective was in Washington working on Gerald Ford's America. Videotaped by Andy Mann, VTR:TVTV includes equipment demonstrations by Alan Rucker, Megan Williams and...
The artist walks around Brooklyn, angling the camera towards the ground and interacting with assorted debris in the process: a discarded strawberry, a Pepsi-branded cup, dead leaves, a Citibike dock, and more.
Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.
Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th-century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into the narrative. The DVD includes an...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.
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."