Information Gladly Given but Safety Requires Unnecessary Conversation

Tom Kalin

1995, 1:03 min, color, sound

Nation

Tom Kalin

1992, 1 min, color, sound

This highly stylized and deftly edited provocation features a cast of performers, diverse in national origin, who recite a litany of statements meant to challenge viewers' secure notions of national identity. Kalin asserts that bodies are very real battlegrounds, territories that are contested and controlled by the same political forces that

No Sell Out... or i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/ machine (Malcolm X Pt. 2)

X-PRZ

1995, 5:37 min, color, sound

States Tony Cokes: "No Sell Out employs desktop video (Adobe Premiere) to position images of Malcolm X in tension with commercial culture. It is a result of a series of loaded questions we ask ourselves, and now wish to impose on viewers... Mr. X is the serialized signifier that sparks...

The Feeling of Power

Robert Beck 

1990, 9 min, color, sound

The Feeling of Power documents a 1989 ACT-UP protest at Trump Tower, offering a self-reflexive manifesto of video activism that brings the ‘70s "guerrilla television" movement into the age of the camcorder.