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"This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as I, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a 'homeland' full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity." — Barbara Hammer

My Face
Robert Buck
1985, 28 min, color, sound

My Father
Shigeko Kubota
1973-75, 15:30 min, b&w, sound

"Father, why did you die?" With this deeply intimate statement of grief, Kubota mourns the death of her father. Video and television are central to her ritual of mourning, and allow her father to assume a presence after death. Kubota and her father, who was dying of cancer in Japan, are seen...

My Word
Vito Acconci 
1973-74, 91:30 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence. The written text alternates with images of Acconci, alone in the interior of an urban loft or on a rooftop, with the skyline of downtown New York as a backdrop. This metaphorical landscape of isolation resonates in the text, in which Acconci directly addresses several different women by name, alluding to their relationships with him. The women's identities seem mutable; they are consigned to silence, others without a voice. Given the unstable nature of subjectivity in his work, Acconci ultimately appears to be "speaking" to himself.

Mysteries of the Pussies
Carolee Schneemann
1998-2010, 7:43 min, color, sound

For this performative/lecture, Schneemann invited Teija Lammi, museum librarian at the Porin Taidemuseo in Pori, Finland, to be an improvisatory participant. Together Schneemann and Lammi physically respond to images of the artist's cats. Schneemann relates her own research into historic obscenities connecting the various implications of "pussy". Lammi translates Schneemann's shocking words into Finnish. The performance was recorded in June 1998 and re-edited in 2010.

Mystery Solved
LoVid 
2007, 3:47 min, color, sound

"We consider Mystery Solved to be the first video recorded with our own handmade synthesizer, Sync Armonica. During a residency at Harvestworks NY, 2006, shortly after completing building the instrument we spent time familiarizing ourselves with it as performers." -LoVid

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
Nam June Paik
1975, 29:24 min, b&w and color, sound

Produced for public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of the artist, his work and philosophies. This fascinating document features an interview of Paik by art critic Calvin Tompkins (who wrote a New Yorker profile of the...

Nation
Tom Kalin
1992, 1 min, color, sound

This highly stylized and deftly edited provocation features a cast of performers, diverse in national origin, who recite a litany of statements meant to challenge viewers' secure notions of national identity. Kalin asserts that bodies are very real battlegrounds, territories that are contested and controlled by the same political forces that

Neptune's Choice
Eder Santos
2003, 15:22 min, color and b&w, sound

Neptune's Choice is Santos' self-described "letter to Amsterdam." With lush images, elliptical text and a haunting sound collage, this poetic work explores the artist's impressions of the cosmopolitan city. Defining Amsterdam through its historical and contemporary relation to water, Santos celebrates the rhythm and routines of the city from the point of view of an outsider. This work was created as an artist-in-residence project of the World Wide Video Festival.

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
Ken Jacobs
2006, 132 min, b&w, sound

WARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.