73 Suspect Words

Peggy Ahwesh 

2000, 4 min, b&w, sound

73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's obsessive irrationality, and his expressions of fear and anger. Based on a spell-check of the Unabomber's manifesto, the work evokes the violence underlying the key words presented.

Chile on the Road to NAFTA

Martha Rosler

1997, 10:46 min, color, sound

Rosler creates a kind of whirling music-video burlesque to offer icons and reminders of the conjunction in Chile of U.S. corporate presence, popular musical strains, and victims of political terror. Chile, at the southernmost end of South America, is on the fast track to admission into the...

Domination and the Everyday

Martha Rosler

1978, 32:09 min, color, sound

In an inquiry into the relation between the corporation, the state and the family, Domination and the Everyday presents a fractured barrage of simultaneous sound tracks, film stills and a crawling text. Questioning the privatized existence of a woman and child, and the role of media information...

Rhyme 'Em To Death

The Wooster Group

1993, 10:33 min, b&w, sound

Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character — the goat. The trial of the goat, a postscript in the Hugo novel, has been extended and enlivened with actual transcripts of 15th-century trials in which animals...

Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure

Martha Rosler

1980, 12:27 min, color, sound

Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District. This videotape, produced for an exhibition held jointly at San Francisco's City Hall and its Museum of Modern Art, argues — against the show's theme and...

Strange Weather

Peggy Ahwesh 

1993, 50 min, b&w, sound

Made in collaboration with Margie Strosser, Strange Weather is a fascinating and unnerving view of drug addiction that fundamentally questions truth and representation. Ahwesh writes: "Strange Weather expands the job of the viewer, looking, but with an insecurity about what is being seen."

White Homeland Commando

The Wooster Group

1992, 62:30 min, color, sound

White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based cop shows, White Homeland Commando offers a straightforward story: four members of a special police unit investigate and infiltrate a New York-based...