How's Tricks

Lynda Benglis and Stanton Kaye 

1976, 33:45 min, color, sound

How's Tricks opens with Benglis' collaborator Stanton Kaye being questioned about his art practice, while a lush Hollywood soundtrack threatens to overpower his answers. They discuss art and illusion — an artist's vulnerability and the use of disguise — and move into the Wildean terrain of the...

Monitor

Lynda Benglis 

1999, 49 min loop, color, sound

Monitor continues Benglis' investigation into the contract between image and audience, confronting the viewer with the blurred apparition of a single eye, positioned above a vast set of lips that are silently opening and closing. The screen subject is reduced to a cyclopean figure that can only...

The Amazing Bow Wow

Lynda Benglis and Stanton Kaye 

1976, 32 min, color, sound

The Amazing Bow Wow tells the tragic tale of a hermaphroditic dog, reduced to performing as a tent-show freak. This confrontational study of gender and sexuality, told as an Oedipal farce of perverse confusions and misapprehensions, is remarkably prescient in its open-ended approach to sexual identity and its canny troubling of gender definitions.