Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image

The New Museum and Bick Productions, co-producers
2004, 11 DVDs

This anthology is a boxed set of eleven DVDs featuring newly-commissioned works by leading artists who are among the most important figures working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala.

El Gringo

Francis Alÿs

2003, 4:12 min, color, sound<

 
Le Moment

David Claerbout

2003, 2:44 min, color, sound<

 
Over My Shoulder

Douglas Gordon

2003, 13:48 min, color, sound<

 
Blind Spot

Gary Hill

2003, 12:27 min, color, sound<

 
I JEDI

Pierre Huyghe

2003, 5 min, color, sound<

 
Waltz

Joan Jonas

2003, 7:03 min, color, sound<

 
Encore

Isaac Julien

2003, 4:38 min, color, sound<

 
Automatic Writing

William Kentridge

2003, 2:38 min, b&w, sound<

 
WGG Test

Paul McCarthy

2003, 5:20 min, color, sound<

 

2003, 4:48 min, color, sound<

 
Time After Time

Anri Sala

2003, 5:22 min, color, sound<

 

Point Of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image is a DVD series that features eleven leading artists from different generations and cultural perspectives, who are among the most important artists working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys , David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala.

The anthology includes eleven separate DVDs in a boxed set. Each DVD features a newly-commissioned work; an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Dan Cameron, senior curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, or Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California; an image library of the artist's previous work; and bibliographical material.

Produced by Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Executive Producers: Jumex Collection, Mexico, and Blink Digital, New York. Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco. Lead-in Music: Bang Goes