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2009, 6:45

Legendary director Werner Herzog is interviewed shortly after having released a notebook of writing he kept during the shooting of Fitzcarraldo. He shares the difficulties he surmounted in the making of the film.

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Mike Kelley, Day Is Done, 2005 (trailer)
microcinema
2005, 1:36
Day Is Done, a major video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is a feature-length musical. It enunciates a career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events through the re-staging of thirty-one carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks. Their subjects are the kinds of institutionalized entertainments practiced within the American education system or the work place. These include such familiar diversions from the day-to-day routine as dress-up days, memorial speeches, religious spectacles, fashion shows, singles mixers, and musical follies. The actors have been cast based on their resemblance to the figures in the found photographs, and the sets eerily recreate the original locales: harshly spot-lit stages, bland institutional hallways, meeting rooms, and gymnasiums. While each chapter of Day Is Done is derived entirely from an image of a quite standardized folk ritual, Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of performances that results in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick story-tellers, horse dancers, and the Virgin Mary.

Originally presented as a fifty channel video/sculpture installation at the Gagosian Gallery New York, in December of 2005, this version of Day is Done has been re-edited into a single channel format for private viewing.
New York New Wave at P.S. 1
ART/new york
3:26 (1981)
ART/new york footage of the landmark "New York New Wave" at P.S. 1, curated by Diego Cortez in 1981.

Known affectionately as the "The Armory Show of the 80s."
Paul McCarthy, Train, Mechanical, 2003–2009
Hauser and Wirth
2009, 2:33
Paul McCarthy's Train, Mechanical, 2003–2009 was view at Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row as part of "The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship"

(Video by Alex Delfanne)
Merce Cunningham, BIPED, 1999. (The Legacy Tour at BAM, Dec. 2011)
BAM
2011, 3:05
Merce Cunningham, BIPED, 1999.
Music by Gavin Bryars
Decor by Shelley Eshkar & Paul Kaiser
Costumes by Suzanne Gallo

Performed during the Legacy Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, December 8, 2011.
Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag Interview (1969)
Newsweek
1969, 27:40
At the seventh annual New York Film Festival in 1969 Newsweek film critic Jack Kroll interviews Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag on the occasion of both their films Lion's Love and Duet for Cannibals being shown at the festival.
Joyce Wieland, Cat Food, 1969
Joyce Wieland
1969, 13:40
A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically. The lay of Grimnir mentions a wild boar whose magical flesh was nightly devoured by the heroes of Valhalla, and miraculously regenerated next morning in the kitchen. The fish in Wieland's film, and the miraculous flesh of the film itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a Dionysian metaphor, old as the West, of immense strength. Once we see that the fish is the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to incandescence in the mind.––Hollis Frampton
Ondi Timoner, We Live in Public, 2009 (excerpt)
Ondi Timoner
2000, 2:42
Archival footage of Josh Harris's Quiet project Capsule Hotel in his a twenty-four-hour video monitoring in a three-level loft in lower Manhattan on New Year's Eve 1999.

For more information please read Loretta Fahrenholz's Top Ten in the March 2012 In Print.
George Kuchar, Hold Me While I'm Naked, 1966
George Kuchar
14:24, (1966)
"Last summer, when it became clear that cancer would inevitably take his life, George Kuchar entered a hospice in San Francisco. He brought his video equipment with him, shooting and editing footage inside what would serve as his final residence. At age sixty-nine, the underground film legend was reportedly the youngest person in the hospice at that moment—appropriate for a guy who began his career as a teenage director and always retained the energy of a gum-snapping adolescent. Even at the end, he could play the kid with the camera." Read more about George Kuchar in Ed Halter's article in the February 2012 Artforum.
Merce Cunningham, Roaratorio, 1983. (The Legacy Tour at BAM, Dec. 2011)
BAMorg
2011, 3:12
Merce Cunningham, Roaratorio, 1983
Music by John Cage
Decor by Mark Lancaster

Performed during the Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, December 7, 2011.
Trailer for NO QUARTO DA VANDA(In Vanda's Room), 2000
Criterion Collection
2000, 2:29
Trailer for Pedro Costa's 2000 film NO QUARTO DA VANDA(In Vanda's Room).

For more information read Loretta Fahrenholz's Top Ten in the March 2012 In Print.
Cary Loren, Destroy All Monsters, 1972–1976
Cary Loren
1972–1976 6:39
Film of Destroy All Monsters by Cary Loren 1972–1976. Featuring Mike Kelly and Jim Shaw.
Alex Israel, As It Lays (Jamie Lee Curtis), 2012
2012, 7:53
Alex Israel's 2012 series As It Lays featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.
Hennesy Youngman, Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst, 2011
3:38
Hennesy Youngman, Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst, 2011
Merce Cunningham, Second Hand, 1970. (The Legacy Tour at BAM, Dec. 2011)
BAM
2011, 3:24
Merce Cunningham, Second Hand, 1970.
Music by John Cage
Costumes by Jasper Johns

Performed during the Legacy Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, December 2011.
Keith Mayerson, 8 Americans, 2011. (Dana Schutz Excerpt)
Keith Mayerson and Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery
2011, 54:59
This video is from an interview series produced in conjunction with the exhibition "8 Americans," organized by Keith Mayerson for Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery in September 2011. Hosted by Mayerson and co-produced by Tom Powel Imaging, the series examines the practice and philosophies of most of the eight American painters associated with the exhibition in Brussels, including Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Francesca DiMattio, Jacob Kassay, and Dana Schutz.
Alex Israel, As It Lays (Marilyn Manson), 2012
2012, 15:05
Alex Israel's 2012 series As It Lays with Marilyn Manson.
Trailer for This is Not a Film, 2011
Jafar Panahi
2011, 6:31
Trailer for Jafar Panahi's 2011 "film," This is Not a Film.

For more information read J. Hoberman's film column in the March 2012 In Print.
John Knight at the New School
2011, 2:22:30
This panel explored John Knight's work and took place on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery on April 7, 2011. Moderator: Simonetta Moro, chair, Visual Arts Program, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Participants: Sabine Breitwieser, chief curator, the Media and Performance Art Department, Museum of Modern Art;
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University; Anne Rorimer, curator and art historian; André Rottmann, art historian, critic, and PhD candidate, Art History Department, Freie Universität.
Antony performs Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” at Radio City Music Hall in New York
LELAITFab
4:35
Antony performs Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” at Radio City Music Hall in New York, January 26, 2012.
Sam Green, The Universal Language, 2010 (excerpt)
Utopia
2010, 5:16
Excerpt from the 2010 Sam Green film about Esperanto, an invented truly global language, called The Universal Language.
Liza Johnson, Return, 2012 (trailer)
Focus Features
2012, 1:25
Trailer for Liza Johnson's Return. You can read her 500 Words with John Arthur Peetz here.
Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown, 1969
Robert Smithson
9:11, 1969
Asphalt Rundown, Rome, 1969, was Smithson's first flow, situated in an abandoned and mundane section of a gravel and dirt quarry in Rome. A large dumptruck released a load of asphalt down a gutted and gullied cliff already marked by time.
Justin Vivian Bond, “Somebody’s House Always Burns At Christmas.”
Earl Dax
2011, 3:14
A video clip from “Mx. Bond’s Austerity Holiday Measures: A Snow Job for the Masses” at Abrons Art Center, December, 2011.

Lance Horne, Musical Director.
Keith Mayerson, 8 Americans, 2011. (Joe Bradley Excerpt)
Keith Mayerson and Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery
2011, 44:49
This video is from an interview series produced in conjunction with the exhibition "8 Americans," organized by Keith Mayerson for Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery in September 2011. Hosted by Mayerson and co-produced by Tom Powel Imaging, the series examines the practice and philosophies of most of the eight American painters associated with the exhibition in Brussels, including Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Francesca DiMattio, Jacob Kassay, and Dana Schutz.
Trailer for Lions Love, 1969
Agnès Varda
1969, 1:48
Trailer for Agnès Varda's 1969 film Lions Love.

For more information read Loretta Fahrenholz's Top Ten in the March 2012 In Print.
Judy Chicago, Sublime Environments, 2012
Peter Kirby
2012, 2:17
Sublime Environments was a public art installation performed by Judy Chicago for Pacific Standard Time.

Disappearing Environments, a public art installation performed by Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr in 1968 was recreated and reinterpreted by Materials & Applications in collaboration with internationally renowned artist Judy Chicago and participants from the local community. An installation consisting of twenty-five tons of dry ice in pyramid formations shrouding the environment with fog was illuminated with road flares served as a conceptual commentary on the rapid commercial development in Los Angeles. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby.
John Chamberlain: Modern Sculpture
ART/new york
1998, 3:57
ART/new york Program no. 52: JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: Modern Sculpture.
Mikala Dwyer: Seance for an Island, 2010
COFA
2010, 8:24
Sydney–based artist Mikala Dwyer explains her project An Apparition of Reduction on Cockatoo Island for the 2010 Sydney Biennale.

For more information about Mikala Dwyer please read her 500 Words.
Todd Haynes, Dottie Gets Spanked, 1993 (Part I)
Todd haynes
1993, 9:23
Todd Hayne's film Dottie Gets Spanked from 1993. Part one.
Frederick Wiseman, Near Death, 1989 (excerpt)
Frederick Wiseman
1989, 5:37
An excerpt from the 1989 Wiseman documentary about a Hospital INTENSIVE CARE UNIT in America.

For more information read Loretta Fahrenholz's Top Ten in the March 2012 In Print.

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