"Pet, Fluffy, Cheezy, Bunny..."

Alix Pearlstein

1993, 5:21 min, color, sound

Writes Pearlstein: "This piece, made as a continuous loop, literally traces the process of a stream of consciousness, such that the process itself becomes the subject. It delineates the way in which one thought leads to the next by associations made through language, sound, image, and action....

Calcium Pills

Cynthia Maughan

1978, 56 sec, color, sound

Cinepolis

Alex Hubbard

2007, 1:55 min, color, sound

The Elevator

Burt Barr 

1985, 5:10 min, color, sound

The Elevator is a tale of urban anxiety in which Barr alternates the stories of two women (Trisha Brown and Wendy Perron), each confined and isolated in an elevator, literal and metaphoric prisoners of their everyday lives. Barr writes of the work's "obsessive [nature], both in its unbroken...

Video Walk

Stuart Sherman

1987, 1 min, color, sound

"What's so sneaky about sneakers anyway? (Walk on by!)" — Stuart Sherman

Whacker

Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn

2005, 6:25 min, color, sound

Under a cloudless Los Angeles sky, Kahn—dressed in incongruous heels and a summery dress—runs an electric weed whacker through a hill of overgrown grass. Whacker conjures a tangible L.A. landscape, representing its distinctive mix of desultory glamour and urban hustle. Writing in The New York Times, Jori Finkel observes, "Whacker falls somewhere between punk performance and theater of the absurd..."