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Hands Scraping
Richard Serra
1968, 4:02 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on HD video

Hands Scraping reduces the frame to one sequential structure in which the action demonstrates a reductio ad absurdum, for more energy is expended at the end to do seemingly less work. The film involves a particular kind of choreography for hands: the hands of Serra and his collaborator Philip...

Hands Tied
Richard Serra 
1968, 5:55 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on HD video

Hands Tied, rather than being a task, is the performance of a feat, which lasts as long as it takes Serra, whose hands are tied with rope inside the frame, to untie the knots. The film sets up a dialectic between hands and material as the hands move and strain in loosening the rope. As in Hand...

Head
Cheryl Donegan
1993, 2:54 min, color, sound

With Head, Donegan ushered in a new era of brash, low-tech performance video. Here she confronts sex, fantasy, and voyeurism in an autoerotic work-out performed to pop music. The tape records a direct performance action: Donegan unplugs the spout of a plastic container; a stream of milk spurts...

Heads
Barbara Buckner
1979, 5:41 min, color, silent

Hearts
Barbara Buckner
1979, 11:56 min, color, silent

Heaven's Gate
Peggy Ahwesh 
2000-01, 3:53 min, b&w, sound

Here Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in her video 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single words unfolds, gradually building into a cool, minimal portrait of the apocalyptic paranoia that runs through the American social body. Heaven's Gate takes up words from the Web site of the cult organization of that name, whose beliefs in extraterrestrial contact led to their 1997 mass suicide.

Hell Frozen Over
Bernadette Corporation 
2000, 19:22 min, color, sound

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.

HIDEO, It's Me Mama
Mako Idemitsu
1983, 26:49 min, color, sound

HIDEO, It's Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu's work. Exploring the flawed universe of the contemporary Japanese family, she focuses on a woman's identity as mother through mother-child and husband-wife...

History Lessons
Barbara Hammer
2000, 66:51 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

In History Lessons, Hammer reclaims and rewrites lesbian history through her playful but empowering manipulation of a vast array of archival footage, from popular films to newsreels, sex ed pics, stag reels, medical and educational films, old nudies, and more.

Home Movies
Vito Acconci 
1973, 32:19 min, b&w, sound

In this powerful "meta-document," Acconci sits in the dark with his back to a screen, onto which are projected slides of his past works, in chronological order from 1969. Autobiographical within the context of his art-making, Home Movies reveals the psychological circuit that propels much of Acconci's work, as he explores the self through a dialogue between the artist and an absent other.