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Eyes On The Prize
Lawrence Weiner
1999, 18 min, color, sound

Face of the Earth
Vito Acconci 
1974, 22:18 min, color, sound

Acconci's face becomes a metaphorical theater for a narrative drama of the mythic American landscape. With language as a catalyst, the artist conducts a riveting examination of his own identity through American cultural mythologies.

Face to Face
Vito Acconci 
1972, 15 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

In this exercise in nonverbal communication, Acconci explores facial expressions, and their psychological resonance, as a mode of performance narrative.

Face-Off
Vito Acconci 
1973, 32:57 min, b&w, sound

Face-Off is an ironic collusion of private and public, of exposure and masking, a tense ritual wherein Acconci divulges and then censors his self-revelations. Acconci turns on a reel-to-reel audiotape recorder and bends down to the speaker to listen to it, his face barely visible in the frame....

Fade to Black
Tony Cokes and Donald Trammel 
1990, 32:51 min, color, sound

In FADE TO BLACK, Cokes and Trammel assemble a chronology of stereotyped cinematic representatives of African-Americans and a series of subjective narratives of racism in everyday social exchanges, constructing what he terms the "details of an ideology," both on and off the screen.

Fall NYC
Maggie Lee
2014, 1:51 min, color, sound

Fall NYC compiles glimpses of an autumnal New York City. Writes artist Whitney Claflin: “In Maggie’s videos, documentary and fantasy play b2b sets—the mundane is transformed into the magical almost immediately, only to have the next frame bring an action right back into its earthly setting. In Fall NYC, sound swerves across the scene as Maggie carries us with her around town. Blips of upbeat dance music ride over the visuals, woven un-Shazaamably with spoken words.”

Family Tyranny/Cultural Soup
Paul McCarthy. With Mike Kelley.
1987, 15:03 min, color, sound

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...

This tape documents a multimedia installation with performance elements, which includes a simulated war room with altered maps, nuclear-weapons descriptive material, recruitment posters, military clothing, a slide show of U.S. and European protest marches and posters, giant newspaper collages, a...

File
Cheryl Donegan
2003, 9:20 min, color, sound

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
Phyllis Baldino 
2009, 24:59 min, color, sound

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.