Backyard Economy I

Martha Rosler 

1974, 3:26 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of mundane domestic chores. Silently depicting scenes of laundry hanging out to dry in a suburban backyard, Rosler points up the labor that allows leisure...

Backyard Economy II (Diane Germain Mowing)

Martha Rosler 

1974, 6:32 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy ll (Diane Germain Mowing) documents the mundane activities of a woman going about her domestic chores. Quietly depicting this figure in the tasks of mowing and watering the grass,...

Digging Piece

Vito Acconci 

1970, 10 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Standing alone among beach dunes, Acconci begins to kick at the sand below him. Over the course of the film's ten minutes, this repeated action displaces sand at a steady rate: as the artist sinks lower into the hole he creates, the mound of sand before him grows in correspondence.

Hearts

Barbara Buckner

1979, 11:56 min, color, silent

Some Manipulations

Jud Yalkut 

1969, 3:10 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Some Manipulations depicts a series of 1969 performances at the Judson Church by Fluxus artists Jean Toche, Steve Young, Nam June Paik, and Al Hansen. Yalkut creates a staccato mix of color, motion and shape.

TV Cello Premiere

Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut

1971, 7:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello at the Bonino Gallery in New York in 1971.