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Masayesva presents the ceramic traditions of Native Americans in a provocative context: the cultural clash of Western civilization and one of the oldest, most enduring tribal groups in North America. SISKYAVI addresses the interpretation of tradition through the dynamics of intercultural...
Sister Suzie Cinema
John Sanborn in collaboration with Lee Breuer and Bob Telson.
1985, 22:33 min, color, sound
A synthesis of video and musical theater, Sister Suzie Cinema is a "doo-wop opera fantasy" about the allure of the movies. This collaboration with theater director/writer/actor Lee Breuer — founding director of the experimental Mabou Mines theater group — and musician Bob Telson features the...
Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National Lesbian Conference at UCLA, Sisters! is a joyous and vital landmark in feminist, queer, and lesbian filmmaking.
Six Colorful Inside Jobs is one of a series of films that Baldessari produced in the 1970s, which are newly available through EAI. Seen from a bird's eye view, a figure paints the walls and floor of a windowless room six times in six days, using each of the primary and secondary colors.
A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by Samuel Beckett that describe similarly repetitive and meaningless activities. Hands clasped behind his back, he kicks one leg up at a right angle...
"I first heard of AIDS in 1985 when I was teaching at Columbia College in Chicago. I noticed the strange and inflammatory articles in the newspapers and I asked my students to collect hysteric headlines for me. And so I began my work on Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS. I examined the public ignorance, stigmatization, and just plain wrong attitudes towards this new illness. By making a snow storm of newspaper clippings I could show what a 'snow job' the media was making." — Barbara Hammer
This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War. In an ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow," crusted branches, rope, foil and foam, an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/installation.
Sol y Dar y Dad, Una palabra bailada
Cecilia Vicuña
1980, 7:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video
In this performance, filmed in March 1980, Sol y Dar y Dad (Solidarity: To Give and Give Sun), one of the word-splitting, deconstructive poems Vicuña calls palabrarmas, is danced by Sofía Torres, young actors, volunteers from Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, and children at the Parque Nacional...
Recorded in EAI's offices and edited in the EAI Technical Facility, Somebody’s Baby is a DIY music video for Jackson Browne’s 1982 rock classic song of the same name. Writes Shimizu: "The footage for this music video was originally intended to be a short play about two arts administrators...
