Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It

Barbara Hammer

1998, 3:06 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two women and an amusing digest of voyeuristic platitudes.

Boomerang

Richard Serra with Nancy Holt 

1974, 10:47 min, color, sound

Boomerang, recorded in a television station in Amarillo, Texas, used a delayed audio feedback system with two tape recorders and headphones. The set-up is intended to focus on thought processes as they are apprehended and verbalized. Nancy Holt wears the headphones, allowing her to hear her...

Bottom of the Top

Alex Hubbard

2012, 5:26min, color, sound

Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

Mike Kelley

2004, 18:30 min, color, sound

Bridge Visitor's subject matter relates to what is known as a "legend-trip" in folkloric studies. In this case the legend-trip refers to the ritualized journeys taken by teenagers to "spooky" locales in search of darker knowledge. The tape plays with various adolescent infatuations with Satan....

Bumper

LoVid

2002, 6:29 min, color, sound

"Bumper was filmed at the time of our first pregnancy in late 2001/early 2002. At the time we were also making small objects from melted plastic beads in our kitchen. In Bumper we use these objects as accessories and low-tech special effects. The video shows our early interest in futuristic...

Buoy

Seoungho Cho

2008, 7:11 min, color, sound, HD video

The golden, barren landscape of Death Valley, recorded by Cho from a moving car, provides the luminous and mysterious texture of Buoy. Cho reflects on the polar extremes of this desert, once the floor of a vast sea and now traversed by tourists. In contrast to the horizontal landscape, which floats ceaselessly past Cho's camera, vertical "strata" pattern the imagery, creating an axis between natural landscape and Cho's composition.

Butterfly

Nam June Paik

1986, 2:03 min, color, sound

The exuberant irreverence and wit of Butterfly characterizes Paik's stream-of-consciousness visual and conceptual techniques. In a vibrant image/music collage, he ironically juxtaposes high-cultural artifacts (the aria from Madame Butterfly), contemporary avant-garde icons (Laurie Anderson) and...

Button Happening

Nam June Paik

1965, 1:40 min, b&w, sound

Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant videotape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently been rediscovered and restored. Recorded on computer tape, this technically fragile...

Bye Bye Kipling

Nam June Paik

1986, 30:32 min, color, sound

This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. In an extraordinary section, a...

Cake Walk

Ulysses Jenkins

1983-89, 26:28 min, color, sound

This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM), at its second (downtown) location on Franklin Street. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance which...