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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...

Somebody's Baby
Trevor Shimizu
2011, 4:29 min, color, sound

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...

Son of Oil
Tony Oursler
1982, 16:08 min, color, sound

Son of Oil is a cautionary tale about the decline of Western civilization, as only Oursler could envision it. Oil is the central metaphor around which he constructs a burlesque critique of the cults of money and power that fuel economic and sexual systems, social pathology and cultural...

Song Poem (Trips Visits)
Robert Beck 
2001, 6:00 min, color, stereo sound

"Song Poem (Trips Visits) is a single-channel work I created using videotapes I found in second-hand stores, from home movies to hunting how-to tapes. It was created for a show titled Song Poems, which took as its departure a popular 1960-70s mail-order phenomenon, advertised in the back of magazines, offering to set poems to music in an array of styles and return them as 'singles.' The exhibition brought together musicians and video artists to set original poems by a variety of artists and writers to music and images. I created a video for an original poem by the show’s curator, Steven Hull, with music composed by The Pony Express, an alternative New York rock band." -- Robert Beck

Songdelay
Joan Jonas
1973, 18:35 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

This 1973 black-and-white film is a rediscovered classic. Performing with a "cast" that includes Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonas choreographs a theater of space, movement, and sound, with the urban landscape of New York in a featured role. Jonas creates a highly original if enigmatic theatrical...

Sounding Board
Vito Acconci 
1971, 22 min, b&w, sound

Sounding Board documents Acconci's performance/installation of the same name, which was presented at A Space in Toronto in July 1971. The artist lies naked, face down on two upward-turned speakers, through which plays a Frank Zappa song as interpreted by Jean-Luc Ponty. The second performer is a musician who "plays" the song on Acconci's body.

Sous-Sols de Paris (Paris Underground)
Gordon Matta-Clark
1977-2005, 25:20 min, b&w, sound, Super 8mm film on HD video

In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car parks, tunnels, ossuaries, cellars, crypts and basements in the Opera district.

Souvenir of Lebanon
Carolee Schneemann
1983-2006, 6 min, color, sound

"Souvenir of Lebanon follows a long video pan through destroyed Palestinian and Lebanese villages. In 1982-83, Israeli ceaseless bombardments destroyed bridges, farms, roads, hospitals, schools, libraries, apartments, and historic sites and towns dating back 2000 years. The live color footage was received unexpectedly from an anonymous news photographer. It is intercut with black and white disaster stills I re-shot from daily newspapers, edited in juxtaposition with color slides of bucolic Lebanon given to me on the day the Lebanese tourist bureau in New York city closed."

The Yonemotos collaborated with performance artist Spalding Gray and actors Mary Woronov and Marshall Efron on this satire of the mythology of Los Angeles, juxtaposing a parodic fictional narrative with Gray's autobiographical monologues. The ironic re-enactment of the New York artist's encounter...

Splitting
Gordon Matta-Clark 
1974, 10:50 min, b&w and color, silent, Super 8mm film on HD video

This film documents the major building cut made by Matta-Clark in a house on Humphrey Street in Englewood, New Jersey.