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In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire: boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Employing the hyperbolic, melodramatic syntax of Hollywood movies and commercial TV, they decode the Freudian symbology and manipulative tactics that underlie...
Hershman Leeson interweaves interviews with experts in the fields of art history and restoration, gender studies, psychology, and film, reflecting on Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The artist dresses each of her subjects as the character Judy, reenacting her contemplation of the painting Portrait of...
Video Commune (Beatles Beginning to End)
Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut
1970-92, 8:36 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video
Video Commune is Jud Yalkut's free-form documentation of Nam June Paik's first interactive television "performance" at the public television station WGBH in Boston. Subtitled "Beatles from Beginning to End," this was a live broadcast in which Paik created a freewheeling collage of recorded images, image-processing and Beatles music.
Writes Yau Ching: "Because I have always been on the move, departing a city and waking up in another country, I find myself writing letters all the time — to people I miss, people I met on the road, people I look forward to meeting... When I grew tired of words (which happened very often), I...
Logue merges image with spoken and written text in Video Portraits: French Writers, utilizing elegant video techniques to illustrate the words of such prominent authors and theorists as Jacques Derrida, Andre Du Bouchet, and Florence Delay. Whether filling the screen with Derrida's handwritten...
Presented with a straightforward charm, Logue's abbreviated portraits of fishermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts are more than mere "fish stories." Seen on their boats in the open sea, the fishermen speak directly to the camera, relating anecdotes and observations that are alternately comic or...
Video Synthesizer and "TV Cello" Collectibles
Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik
1965-71, 23:25 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video
This restored collection of rare early collaborative works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. Recorded between 1965 and 1971, these "video-films" reveal insights into the evolution of Paik's work in video, performance and installation, and...
Video-Film Concert
Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut
1966-72, 1992, 34:50 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film on video
This restored collection of rare early collaborative works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. Recorded between 1967 and 1972, these playful and improvisational "video-films" reveal insights into the evolution of Paik's work in video, performance and installation.
Viet-Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to "travel" within the photographs, producing a volatile animation.
This recently restored performance tape was recorded in Naples, Italy, in 1973. Crouched in a corner, hemmed in by the video camera and a closed-circuit monitor showing him the scene as it is recorded, Acconci attempts to "disappear." He tries to erase his image in the eyes of those watching, alternating between urgent appeals to imagined viewers and pleas to his own image in the monitor.
