Media Burn

Ant Farm: Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Curtis Schrier, Uncle Buddie 

1975, 23:02 min, color, sound

Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive collision of two of America's most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television. On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco's Cow Palace, Ant Farm presented what they termed the "ultimate media event." In this alternative Bicentennial celebration, a "Phantom Dream Car"—a reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible—was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.

Melehi

Shalom Gorewitz

1984, 25:10 min, color, sound

Produced with the Bronx Museum of Art, Melehi is a portrait of the Moroccan painter Mohammed Melehi and his work. Shot in the artist's Casablanca studio and in Rabat, Marrakech, and the Atlas mountains, the tape places Melehi within the larger tradition of Islamic art and culture. Inspired by the...

Menses

Barbara Hammer

1974, 3:15 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation, in which women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. Menses combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.

Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments

Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas

1975-76, 15:38 min, color, sound

Blue Studio: Five Segments is a groundbreaking work of videodance by postmodern master Merce Cunningham and his then filmmaker-in-residence, Charles Atlas. In a series of short pieces choreographed and performed specifically for video space, Cunningham is multiplied, overlaid and transported from the studio to a series of unexpected landscapes. Cunningham's gestural dance is manipulated to the accompaniment of a disjunctive audio collage that includes the voices of John Cage and Jasper Johns.

Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic?

Tony Cokes 

2006-2008, 31:07 min, b&w, sound

Drawing from music critic Philip Sherburne’s writings and British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy’s influential study The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1994), Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? considers the socio-political context undergirding the roots of minimal techno in...

Millennia

Barbara Buckner

1981, 5:33 min, color, silent

Mirage

Joan Jonas

1976, 31 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video

Writes Jonas: "For Mirage I made a film of drawing, again and again, images on a blackboard, and then erasing them. Reading the essays collected in Spiritual Disciplines, I got another idea to use drawings, also in Mirage, which I called 'Endless Drawings' after those described in the Melukean...

Mirage 2

Joan Jonas

1976-2000, 30 min, b&w, sound

Mirage 2, which Jonas edited at EAI in 2000 for simultaneous projection with her 1976 film Mirage, is a montage composed of video dating from the era of the original film and performance. A kaleidoscopic and hypnotic piece, it revisits footage recorded in the 1970s: fragments of off-air...

Mirror

Robert Buck

1985, 28 min, color, sound

Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch

Mike Kelley

2011, 53:12 min, color, sound, HD video