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Writes McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for one day alone and one day with Mike Kelley. I asked Mike Kelley to be the son and I...
The vertiginous File looks to consumer detritus for inspiration, as well as Rem Koolhaas' notion of the "junkspace" of modern cities. Scraps of color and pattern slide across the screen, frustrating all sense of spatiality and depth; the delirious soundtrack adds to the disorientation.
Finally is Baldino's personal video chronicle of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009. Visiting Washington as an ordinary citizen, Baldino resolves to attend the swearing-in ceremony on the National Mall and the parade in front of the White House. Documenting the elation shared by millions that day, she converses with fellow audience-members and captures her own footage of the First Family.
Echoing episodes of the PBS series “This Old House” which frequently deal with the finishing, insulating, or lighting of raw basement spaces, Finishing a Raw Basement takes the format of the home-improvement show as a template for a non-linear exploration of material. Harris-Babou and her mother play construction experts exploring how the word “repair” might relate to the unfulfilled promise of reparations for Black people in the United States.
In 1971 Matta-Clark produced works for the exhibition Brooklyn Bridge Event. This film records his process of making a sculpture - a small wall made of rubbish, waste paper and tin cans collected from the area.
In this "video poem," Vicuña responds to Gasland 2, a 2013 documentary by Josh Fox examining the devastating environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States. The audio recording of the poem Vicuña reads is from a July 18, 2013 performance at Poets House in New York City.
In this tapestry of images and sounds, fragments gleaned from more than three years of research on four continents illuminate an ancient community of perceptions, practices, and values. Originating in Africa, thousands of years before Egypt, remnants of the First World Order survive today as...
This experimental documentary uses the life stories of a Chinese woman artist to explore alternatives to dominant versions of history. Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, she first came to the U.S. to study, and then, after the government crackdown, to live. FLOW's narratives of...
In this exercise in the act of viewing and being viewed, Acconci explores intuitive perception through intense concentration. Blindfolded, he stands against a wall, his nude back to the camera. Throughout the tape, the camera moves to focus alternately on his body and on objects in the performance space, while Acconci attempts to guess the object and direction of the camera's gaze. "I feel you staring at the back of my neck now." "Yes." "You're staring from the right side."
