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Celebrating the Hopi Tricentennial, Itam Hakim, Hopiit is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy and prophesy. The myths, religion, legends and history of the Hopi people, articulated through the ancient oral tradition, are translated by Masayesva to video. Speaking in the Hopi language, Ross...
"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student body. I was fascinated with Jane. She was so interested in the world around her while Stan seemed caught up only in his ideas. She picked seed pods from...
Japan in Paris in L.A. centers on Saeki Yuzo, an early 20th-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes, only to confront ethnic and cultural differences. Around this narrative, the Yonemotos construct a multi-layered and self-reflexive work that foregrounds strategies of disjunction and contradiction. Intercutting archival footage of turn-of-the-century Paris with mid-century Los Angeles, this work is a complex meditation on issues of Modernity, representation, ethnocentrism, and identity.
In Jembe, Jones transposes African visual motifs and image construction to the electronic medium. Vibrant images, rendered as abstracted electronic color and form, are fused with the dynamic music of Coulibaly Aboubacar. This vivid, impressionistic piece explores the development of codes based on...
Writes Yau Ching: "June 30, 1997. Hong Kong. Tourists flocked to expensive gourmet parties with a harbor view, or got drunk on the streets, embracing British or Communist flags. All media coverage described how happy the local Hong Kong people were about being taken over the next day. I was...
In Juste le temps, Cahen formulates an implied fiction within an impressionistic, dreamlike journey of a woman on a train moving through the French countryside. Cahen's rich, painterly abstraction of the landscape passing beyond the frame of the train's window — lushly colorized and transmuted...
K-Corea INC. K (section a) is one of seven works in Trecartin's 2009/2010 Rotation. Kevin McGarry writes, "The cast of K-Corea INC. K is mainly comprised of actors dressed as various 'Koreas (sounds like careers), in blond wigs, powder, and office casual attire, the sum of which Trecartin calls 'work face.' The homogenized Koreas represent all nations in a UN-inspired flavor spectrum--USA, Mexico, Canada, Hungary, Morocco, Argentina--presided over by Global Korea, a CEO whose safari-style 'post drag re-take' stands out from her employees' neutered uniforms.
In Kae, Act Like A Girl, Idemitsu continues her experimental narrative exploration of women's roles in contemporary Japan with a tale of feminist awakening. Here she presents a young female artist's conflict with the traditional, patriarchal expectations of women in Japanese culture, in which men...
Kappa is a boldly provocative and original work. Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western...
The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video closely documents Brakhage's last visit to New York, and captures scenes of his family life in Boulder, Colorado, affording a view of the artist that is at once candid and casual.
