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Endangered
Barbara Hammer
1988, 18:02 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

"...Endangered is a compelling expression of the unique power of celluloid and the filmmaking process. Hammer does not hide behind the process of filmmaking – in Endangered we see her making the film. In her hands, the transformation of film into a poetic and avant garde art form comes about through the direct manipulation of celluloid.” – John Hanhardt, Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989.

Essa Coisa Nervosa
Eder Santos
1991, 15:26 min, color, sound

In This Nervous Thing, Santos questions the ways we perceive and receive information through the media. Santos writes, "Lost in our creations, we must use artificial means, such as newspapers and other media to simulate knowledge of what is around us. In doing so, we create heroes, cities,...

Ethnic Cleansing
Ulysses Jenkins
2022, 6 min, color, sound, HD video

Evidentiary Bodies
Barbara Hammer
2018, 9:30 min, color, sound, three-channel HD video

"In these horrific times when lies are blatantly exclaimed as truths, when fear makes us withdraw from each other, when difference is maligned as xenophobia, and when atrocities are committed in the name of spectacle, we must find and practice a quiet way of compassion, sympathy, and generosity through empathy." — Barbara Hammer

Evil
Tony Cokes
2003, 10:56 min, color, sound

Evil addresses urban life and mediated representations of capital and capitalism, and the popular usage of the term "evil." The Manhattan skyline is seen from boats trolling New York's waterways. What is at once revealed and concealed is the face of American capitalism, global power, and high finance: Wall Street, the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the United Nations. Cokes overlays these images with quotations from philosopher Alain Badiou.

Evil.10 (W2tDotR)
Tony Cokes
2005, 7:27 min, color, sound

Evil.10 features an excerpt from Slavoj Zizek's text Welcome to the Desert of the Real set to two music tracks by The Notwist. Written just after September 11, 2001, Zizek's text discusses potential meanings and consequences of the tragedy and questions common responses to the event. He reads the destruction as an unacceptable act and an opportunity for critical reflection, responsibility, and change in historical U.S. economic and political policies in relation to the world outside its borders.

Evil.11: The Katrina Debacle
Tony Cokes
2010, 9:02 min, color, sound, HD video

Cokes writes, "Evil.11 (The Katrina Debacle) is a text animated essay about the Bush Administration's response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. The text is based on an e-mail I received in Korea in the immediate aftermath of the events. Juxtaposing three songs from diverse pop musical genres with minimal graphic and textual animation techniques, the video reframes a highly charged emotional and political reading of the disturbing events, its media imagery, and the deeply flawed presidential reaction."

Evil.12.edit.b (fear, spectra & fake emotion)
Tony Cokes
2009, 11:43 min, color, sound, HD video

Writes Cokes, "Evil.12 is a 12-minute video animation with sound. The text is excerpted from Brian Massumi's essay 'Fear (The Spectrum Said),' which discusses the Bush Administration's terror alert color-coding system as a method to modulate public affect via media representation...The insertion of a soundtrack by Modeselektor with uncanny vocals from Paul St. Hilaire (remixed by Dabrye) seeks to double (ghost) and thereby underline the point of Massumi's complex media textual analysis."

Evil.16 (Torture.Musik)
Tony Cokes
2009-2011, 16:27 min, color, sound, HD video

Writes Cokes, "Evil.16: Torture.Musik animates excerpts from an article by Moustafa Bayoumi that was originally published in The Nation magazine on December 26, 2005. While surveying the topic I found this article to be a key and cogent text in a body of reportage and scholarship devoted to the military use of music and sound as a weapon, a form of psychological manipulation, or torture. The soundtrack features a playlist of songs or artists documented as being used in U.S. spy-ops and torture programs."

Evil.27: Selma
Tony Cokes 
2011, 9 min, color, sound, HD video