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Mike gets nominated as an Outstanding Young Man of America and decides to have a party to celebrate. He digs out his Disco suits and, 'strutting his funky stuff' to the sound of Disco Inferno, sets up glitter balls and decorates the house. Night falls as Mike looks to the sky and contemplates his...

P-Unit Mixtape 2005
Paper Rad
2005, 21:08 min, color, sound

This delirious montage of appropriated and computer-generated elements merges perennial Paper Rad themes such as Gumby and the 8-bit computer aesthetic with a keen, critical take on contemporary culture. This self-described "mix tape" — a term that refers here both to the group's montage strategy and to popular compilations of bootlegged hit music — takes on the war in Iraq, the art market, and the images of ostentatious wealth and glamor flaunted by pop stars today.

P.opular S.ky (section ish)
Ryan Trecartin
2009, 43:51 min, color, sound, HD video

P.opular S.ky (section ish) submerges characters from other sections of Any Ever into an extreme poetic state where their creative limits bloom, but perhaps only on an illusory level. As the section "ish" (vs. section "a") to the works above, the movie's threads appear to be the culmination of situations initiated during other parts of Any Ever, but at the same time they are annexed as outcomes that might not be part of the official record.

Pacing Upside Down
Bruce Nauman
1969, 56 min, b&w, sound

In this videotape, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a small square with his hands clasped high over his head. He then circles it in increasingly larger loops until he is out of camera range completely. Since the camera is inverted, he appears to be walking on the ceiling.

Papa
Bruce Yonemoto 
2006, 11:14 min, color, sound

Yonemoto uses the potato ("papa" in Quechua), which is indigenous to Andean Peru, as the starting point for his inquiry. Restaging Van Gogh's famous painting The Potato Eaters with a modern Andean Quechua family in place of the original's Dutch peasants, Yonemoto parodies conventional documentary "objectivity" and its discourses surrounding third-world agricultural misery. Footage of rural poverty from Bunuel's 1932 surrealist documentary Land Without Bread—itself a landmark parody of the documentary form—serves as an ironic counterpoint to the "real" family tableau.

Paracas
Cecilia Vicuña
1983, 18:31 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

Conceived as a visual and sound poem in seven scenes, this animation of a two- thousand-year-old textile in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum invites entrance into a different visual and sonic space: the universe of the pre-Columbian weavers who created the portrait of a ritual procession...

Paradigm Shift
Philip Mallory Jones
1992, 1 min, color, sound

This lyrical meditation on the cultures of the African diaspora is a richly visualized collage of sounds and images derived from African cosmology, tracing the long historical struggle to define a trans-cultural African race.

PARIS (Metro)
Peter d'Agostino
1977-78, 5:22 min, color, sound

In PARIS (Metro), d'Agostino uses the Metro's closed-circuit surveillance cameras to record the movement of passengers in and out of the subway. The monitored images allude to a found text on the confusing etymological origins of "metro" and "poly" and their metaphoric connection to the subway as a vehicle of communication, while simulating the disassociation experienced by passengers in the system.

Paris From Behind
Antek Walczak 
1999, 25 min, color, sound

Writes Antek Walczak: "A detective-mystery movie adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'Purloined Letter' that purposely forgets the central premise of the story: the invisibility of hiding something obviously in plain sight. The Dupin twins, Augustine and Nicolas, confront another baffling case in...

Parisian Blinds
Barbara Hammer
1984, 6:07, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

"A silent film that investigates the nature of spectator perception by tourists and travelers. What do people see when they travel and isn’t it as much about moving forward as moving back? The Bateau Mouche tourist boats circle the Seine in Paris literally becoming the emblem of the voyager who cannot see." — Barbara Hammer