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.

Janauba

Eder Santos

1993, 17:40 min, color, sound

Santos constructs a lyrical meditation on his native Brazilian landscape, its culture and its inhabitants. Santos pays tribute to two important historical figures from Brazilian cinema — Humberto Mauro and Mario Peixoto — and their films The Ox-cart and The Limit. Contemporary footage, recorded...

Jane Brakhage

Barbara Hammer

1974, 9:54 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

"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.

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

1996, 30 min, color, sound

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.