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Now
Lynda Benglis 
1973, 12 min, color, sound

Now takes on video's claims to immediacy and authenticity, as Benglis juxtaposes live performance with her own prerecorded image. The soundtrack features phrases such as "now!" and "start recording," commands that usually ground us in the present, but here serve to deepen the confusion between live signals and mediation. Repeated takes and acidic color processing heighten this challenge to video's power of "liveness."

Now I'm Turning to Face You
Rea Tajiri
1982, 6:50 min, color, sound

Tajiri combines classic cinematic moments with her own text, slyly juxtaposing the power of the viewer's anonymous machinations with the illusions created by the magicians of cinema — both located out of sight, just behind the curtain/screen.

nsʇıɾnɟ
Cory Arcangel 
2021, 33:49 min, color, sound, HD video

Single-channel screen recording of a live bot performance on Twitter (nsʇıɾnɟ), June 22-23, 2021.

O Panama
Burt Barr and James Benning 
1985, 27:19 min, color, sound

Written and directed by Barr in collaboration with filmmaker James Benning, O Panama features Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe as a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the tedious reality of the man's...

Oblique Strategist Too
Edin Velez
1984, 12:33 min, color, sound

Oblique Strategist Too is a multilayered, tangential portrait of composer Brian Eno, and an evocative essay on the creative process. Eno's perspectives on his music and working methods surface elliptically, through interviews and footage of him in the studio and in lectures. Eno emerges as a...

Ocean
Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham
2010, 100:28 min, color, sound, HD video

Charles Atlas' Ocean captures the breathtaking 2008 performances of Merce Cunningham's seminal dance work of the same title. Completed in 1994, Cunningham's 90-minute opus is an homage to composer John Cage and novelist James Joyce. Similarly, Atlas' film serves as an ode to his four-decades-long collaboration with Cunningham, who died in 2009, before the film was finished. Atlas' Ocean celebrates these histories and their relation to the intertwining of video, music and dance.

Off Limits
Rea Tajiri
1988, 7:30 min, color, sound

Writes Tajiri: "Off Limits presents an analysis of representations of the Vietnam War, the 1960s, and the Vietnamese characters that have been portrayed in the recent series of films about this subject. I juxtapose a fragment from the film of the same title, made in 1987 about Vietnam in 1968,...

Olympic Fragments
Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn
1980, 10:35 min, color, sound

Commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Fragments is a taut, expressive reinterpretation of athletic movement, a tour-de-force of dynamic editing and post-production techniques. Through sophisticated visual and aural juxtapositions, Fitzgerald and Sanborn...

OM Rider
Takeshi Murata
2013, 11:39 min, color, sound, HD video

In OM Rider, Takeshi Murata deftly weaves the aesthetics of retro-noir, video games, and Italian giallo film into a cinematic exercise in cool, narrative minimalism and distilled rebellion. In a vast desert bathed in neon hues, a misfit lycanthrope blasts syncopated techno rhythms into the night....