San Francisco (BART)

Peter d'Agostino

1978, 20 min, b&w and color, sound

San Francisco (BART) documents an "installation-in-motion," a performance event in a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train from San Francisco to Berkeley. Immense surveillance and control systems are juxtaposed with the human element—pockets of life moving through a massive, intricate organism.

Sanctus

Barbara Hammer

1990, 18:16 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

Sanctus is a film of rephotographed moving x-rays, originally shot by Dr. James Sibley Watson and his colleagues. Making the invisible visible, the film reveals the skeletal structure of the human body as it protects the hidden fragility of interior organ systems.

Sand Saga

Shana Moulton

2008, 10:32 min, color, sound

Here Moulton's alter ego Cynthia again gains access to a parallel universe via the transformative powers of New Age body treatments and domestic objects. After applying a facial beauty mask, she moves through an environment energized with Southwestern motifs and rituals, from sculpted heads and Georgia O'Keefe-like forms to sand painting and hot stone massage. Ultimately Cynthia is transported to a fantastical world and emerges transformed.

Sans Simon

Cory Arcangel 

2004, 3:49 min, color, sound

A companion to All the Parts from Simon and Garfunkel’s 1984 Park Performance, in which Arcangel documents his own gestural interventions of consumer recordings of the duo’s performances. As he plays a Simon and Garfunkel DVD in his living room, the artist holds his hands up to cover any instance of Simon appearing onscreen.

Sappho

Barbara Hammer

1978, 6:42 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

Save Sex

Barbara Hammer

1993, 1:00 min, color, sound

Schizy

Barbara Hammer

1968, 3:59 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Score for Joanna Kotze

Shelly Silver 

2019, 04:10 min, Color, Stereo, English

Score for Joanna Kotze was written by Silver for the choreographer Joanna Kotze during their shared time at the Bogliasco Foundation Residency in Italy, and later reformulated as a moving image work. The score itself is un-danceable, examining the attunement to a surrounding environment enacted through performance.

Secrecy: Help Me to Understand

Ulysses Jenkins

1994, 8 min, color, sound

This tape investigates the media's portrayal of African American males, specifically the use of stereotypes in such cases as the Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson trials. Jenkins responds to the ceaseless televisual repetition of images from such events by constructing this tape as a 25-minute loop of...

Secret

Maggie Lee

2013, 31 sec, color, sound

The artist listens as her friend, a Garfield plushy, confides in her.