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Keys to Our Heart
Kalup Linzy
2008, 24:06 min, b&w, sound, English

"...Keys to Our Heart is a black and white 1940s period piece about an interracial love triangle that (surprise!) turns out to be an unconventional square....By inserting himself into every aspect of the narrative, [Linzy] literally gives voice to the widespread desire to see oneself reflected on the screen, to bring those stereotypical roles to very personal life."" — Sharon Mizota, LA Times Blog, 10/7/10

King David
Ulysses Jenkins
1978, 17:29 min, b&w, sound

Jenkins records David Hammons, at a decisive moment in the artist's development, just prior to his move from Los Angeles to New York. Part interview, part video performance, Hammons, in conversation with fellow artist LaMonte Westmoreland, considers Los Angeles's black artist community, the...

Kitch's Last Meal (Composite)
Carolee Schneemann
1973-76, 54:11 min, color, sound, Super 8mm film on HD video

Kiyoko's Situation
Mako Idemitsu
1989, 24:19 min, color, sound

Kiyoko's Situation articulates the deeply embedded cultural roles of Japanese women through the parallel stories of two female artists, Kiyoko and Tani. In Idemitsu's narrative-within-a-narrative, "Kiyoko's situation" is played out on a television monitor within Tani's drama. Tani is paralyzed in...

Kon Kon
Cecilia Vicuña
2010, 53:55 min, color, sound, HD video, Spanish with English subtitles

In this self-described "documentary-poem," Vicuña returns to the beaches of Concón, Chile – the birthplace of her artmaking, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being wiped out. Concón – facing the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, Aconcagua – is home to a cultural...

Kon Kon Pi
Cecilia Vicuña
2010, 13 min, color, sound, HD video

A visual poem performed in Concón, an ancient cultural site on the Chilean coast, where natural preserves are being destroyed by real estate expansion and oil refineries. Kon Kon Pi is a drawing in space, in sand and sea – sometimes made with a stick in sand, sometimes in lines of red wool...

Lake Placid '80
Nam June Paik
1980, 3:49 min, color, sound

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Paik's recurring visual and audio motifs: the...

Landscape
Nan Hoover
1983, 5:42 min, color, sound

In Landscape, a single illuminated hand positioned before the camera is transformed through its scale and deliberate movements into a sculptural landscape.

Leaf of Life
Ilana Harris-Babou 
2022, 17:41 minutes, color, stereo, HD video

In Leaf of Life, Harris-Babou imagines an alternate reality where the tropes of wellness culture are disrupted by the healing potential of Black self-determination. The artist takes inspiration from conspiracy theories, diet gurus, and biblical quotes, among others. The video combines reflection on the legacy of Dr. Sebi, a Honduran health guru with a significant following of Black Americans, with DIY home cooking tutorial footage and interview-style conversation with the artist’s sister, who works as a nurse. The work combines fiction with personal and shared stories of loss and neglect in the US healthcare system.

leeds.talk.04
Tony Cokes
2008, 18:49 min, b&w, sound, HD video

leeds.talk.04 is an animated video text, presenting a series of pointed anecdotes about the vexed relationship between art criticism and art making in Britain and the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s. the video is based on an article titled "Leeds Talk" by Los Angeles art historian Andrew Perchuk. Its characters include noted figures like Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Charles Harrison, Rosalind Krauss, Artforum, October, and features important cameos by Morris Louis, Lynda Benglis, and the late sculptor David Smith (among others).