Titles by Dara Birnbaum
- Canon: Taking to the Streets, Part One: Princeton University - Take Back the Night
- Damnation of Faust Trilogy
- Everything's Gonna Be...
- Fire!/Hendrix
- Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry
- Liberty: A Dozen or So Views
- MTV: Artbreak
- New Music Shorts
- Pivot: Turning Around Suppositions
- PM Magazine/Acid Rock
- Pop-Pop Video
- Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
- Six Movements: Video Works from 1975
- Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
- TRANSVOICES: transgressions
- TRANS-VOICES
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of appropriated footage (including a TV commercial for Sergio Valente jeans) and a young woman drinking Remy on a commuter train platform, Birnbaum calls attention to how mass media advertising uses a woman's body as a vehicle for selling products. In a stylized pastiche that she terms "a snack-en-route with a pretty girl, animated trains, updated Bacharach muzak (Brazilian style), and pouring Remy," Birnbaum turns the tables on the media's use of woman as commodity.
Camera/Production Assistance: John Sanborn. Music: Burt Bacharach. Musical Arrangement: Clarice Taylor, Kelvyn Bell. Audio Mix: Bruce Tovsky. Sound Mix: Burt Brathwaite. Recorded at Brathwaite Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Post-production mix rough edit: Merc ? Video Cuts.Videotape Editor: Dave Pentecost. Commercial Footage: Sergio Valente. Created for Remy Martin by Dara Birnbaum.
