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Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art
CTG, Kohei Ando, Takahiko Iimura, Keigo Yamamoto, Toshio Matsumoto, Video Earth Tokyo, Mako Idemitsu, Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Norio Imai, Hakudo Kobayashi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Saburo Muraoka, Keiji Uematsu, Morihiro Wada
2010, 162 min, color and b&w, sound, DVD
Vital Signals is a survey of the vibrant, interdisciplinary video art scene in Japan in the 1960s and '70s. Produced by EAI, the DVD anthology features sixteen works by fifteen Japanese artists, among them key figures such as Takahiko Iimura, Mako Idemitsu and Toshio Matsumoto. The DVD is accompanied by a 100-page, bilingual (English and Japanese) illustrated catalogue publication. Essays by Barbara London, Glenn Phillips, and Hirofumi Sakamoto draw out the unique art historical and cultural contexts of early Japanese video art, and its relation to film and other visual art forms. The Vital Signals DVD is organized in three parts: The Language of Technology, Open Television, and Body Acts. In technical experiments, activist statements, and conceptual performances, Japanese artists of the 1960s and '70s transformed the intangible—time, gesture, the electronic signal—into rich art-making material. The Vital Signals DVD anthology and catalogue publication illuminate this fertile period of creative engagement in Japan.
"Waltzing cheek-to-cheek with a grinning skeleton, filmmaker Barbara Hammer sets the tone ... . Hammer's Vital Signs is dedicated to a trio of losses, including her late father and Curt McDowell, a fellow filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1987. Her recurring motif of a danse macabre makes a jarring symbol for the will to reconcile spirit and body; as she caresses and cradles the all-too-familiar form, Hammer fashions an artful, elegantly disturbing keynote address." — Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Chronicle
Based on the thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, this narrative reverie is a televisual retelling of a medieval myth about a young woman (played by Tilda Swinton) whose dreams foretell the future. Shot in the dramatic natural landscapes of Iceland and in New York, this performance-based...
A drive along the electronic superhighway! Using state-of-the-art computer graphics systems, d'Agostino creates a virtual environment that joins together simulations of Philadelphia, the Rockies, Kuwait City and Hiroshima. From inside a computer generated car, these four geographically remote...
VTR: Downtown Community Television Center
DCTV (Jon Alpert, Yoko Maruyama, Keiko Tsuno) and VTR
1975, 29:08 min, b&w and color, sound
In this informational documentary, produced as part of the Video Tape Review series of New York public television station WNET/Thirteen, interviews with Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno are interspersed with excerpts from their extensive body of work.
A documentary about TVTV shot by one of its own members, this first segment of WNET/Thirteen's VTR series was produced while the collective was in Washington working on Gerald Ford's America. Videotaped by Andy Mann, VTR:TVTV includes equipment demonstrations by Alan Rucker, Megan Williams and...
The artist walks around Brooklyn, angling the camera towards the ground and interacting with assorted debris in the process: a discarded strawberry, a Pepsi-branded cup, dead leaves, a Citibike dock, and more.
Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.
Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th-century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into the narrative. The DVD includes an...
War Pigeon invokes the use of trained pigeons as aerial photographers during World War II. In this phone call to the customer service department of a bank, the speaker describes an unnerving encounter with a suspicious bird, which has led him to question his trust in the bank’s very existence.
