Information Gladly Given but Safety Requires Unnecessary Conversation

Tom Kalin

1995, 1:03 min, color, sound

Inherent in the Rhumb Line

Lawrence Weiner

2005, 7:25 min, color, silent

Inherent in the Rhumb Line is a silent motion drawing. "With the advent of the rhumb line — a line of constant bearing or loxodrome — a cognitive pattern developed in the Western world that allowed the possibility to conceive pillage on voyages of discovery. Inherent in the Rhumb Line is an imperative for use — regardless of consequence — a flattened convolution that marries landscape with loot and preordination."

Interior Scroll – The Cave

Carolee Schneemann

1995, 7:31 min, color, sound

In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll — reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. The scroll embodies the primacy of an extended visual line shaped as both concept and action. The extracted text...

Intriguing People (Enredando As Pessoas)

Eder Santos

1995, 70 min, color, sound, Portuguese with English subtitles

Brazilian artist Eder Santos's first feature length work, shot in Spain, employs a rich and varied score by Stephen Vitiello to mobilize the mystic journey of an image prophet who can project his vision into the world. This prophet finds himself in a landscape where images — regardless of their...

Invasive Species

Frank Heath

2012, 11:36 min, color, sound, HD video

Invasive Species documents a peculiar request by phone, set against a beautiful day at Green-Wood Cemetery. The exchange explores multiple tangents, from parakeets to numerology, while the onscreen events turn bizarrely synchronous.

Is There Anything Specific You Want Me to Tell You About?

Yau Ching

1991, 12 min, color, sound

Loosely structured as a letter home, a "writer" explicates the longings, nostalgia and regrets that exile, even voluntary exile, produces. B. Ruby Rich, writing in The Village Voice, states, "A subtle answer to travelogue mentalities... turns the tables on the tourists in their native land and...

IT'S IN THE GAME '17

Sondra Perry

2017, 16:32 min, color, sound, HD video

Itam Hakim, Hopiit

Victor Masayesva, Jr.

1985, 58 min, color, sound

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...

ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion)

David Wojnarowicz and Ben Neill 

1989, 22 min, color, sound

ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion) combines film clips seen throughout Wojnarowicz’s filmography, including footage of Beluga whales and other animals at the Coney Island Aquarium; Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City; ants crawling on a crucifix; and Wojnarowicz sewing his mouth closed in protest of public silence around AIDS in the United States.

ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion)

David Wojnarowicz and Ben Neill 

1991/2018, 48 min, color, sound, four-channel installation

This version of ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion), synchs the original, single channel version across four channels. It features film clips seen throughout Wojnarowicz’s filmography, including footage of Beluga whales and other animals at the Coney Island Aquarium; Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City; ants crawling on a crucifix; and Wojnarowicz sewing his mouth closed in protest of public silence around AIDS in the United States.