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Refuses began as a visual extension of Carolyn Bergdahl's poem Fuses (after Carolee Schneemann), which speaks to Schneemann's taboo-shattering 1964-66 film. In Donegan's silent collage of seemingly disparate images culled from Internet searches and home video footage, each new clip directly corresponds to a word in the Bergdahl poem; the apparent stream of consciousness is governed by a rigorous set of rules.
Through video collage, Cantor sets her unapologetically fatalist observations on love and intimacy to a wide-ranging set of audio-visual quotations, including clips from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, the well-known beach scene from From Here to Eternity, the works of John Cassavetes, and more.
The collective from Venice, California known as Video Venice News documented the Watts Festival in 1972 and 1973. Writes Jenkins: "This videotape program presents an overview of what was a historical event in the black and brown community of south east Los Angeles, CA... more notably recognized...
Originally produced as a music video for Paul Simon's song René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War, this is a witty tribute to Magritte's work and a haunting visual interpretation of Simon's music and lyrics. A photograph of the Magrittes serves as the point of departure for both...
Reparation Hardware takes up the call of its title as a proposal for the delivery of reparations to Black Americans while utilizing the form of a furniture restoration tutorial to deliver its message. Playing the role of furniture designer finding inspiration in a rustic American landscape, Ilana Harris-Babou examines the impulse to rewrite history with the help of tastefully refurbished antiques.
Hammer has crafted an eloquent and richly layered examination of the artist’s and individual’s role in times of conflict. Resisting Paradise focuses on Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard’s artistic work in the south of France during World War II, while also examining the word of Matisse’s family and others in the French Resistance Movement.
Ken Jacobs writes, "In 1969, Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son seized me, with a new film (as I said then) almost incidentally a result. Placing the 1905 Mutoscope original in the computer allows for an unbounded freedom of study and playfulness. Now I seize the film, introducing a quasi-3D and strange time-dimension...Far more is revealed (the stealing of the pig!) and, joined to sound, the old movie even tells a new story."
A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a series of steps similar to those of Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk). The curious exercise combines pirouettes, goose steps, and crabbed, angled arabesques. ...
Originally an eight-monitor installation, Rite and Expression is an impressionistic evocation of the cultural history of Our Lady of the Rosario Church, a Baroque edifice in the central Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Built during the seventeenth century in the historic gold-mining town of Ouro...
Roamie View: History Enhancement reveals JJ as a husk of his former self, overwhelmed by too many experimental personalities and reverted to factory presets. He hires Roamie Hood's (Alison Powell) company to roam backwards through time to research an opportunity for an edit that could alter his future-present.