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Merce Cunningham, Beach Birds for Camera (1992)

Beach Birds For Camera, 1992 (a 35-mm film directed by Elliot Caplan)
First Performed: New York, New York; December 1991
Music: John Cage
Design: Marsha Skinner
Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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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.
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.
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.
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.
Tania Bruguera speaks on Immigrant Movement International, December 18, 2011
2011
Tania Bruguera speaks at a rally for Immigrant Movement International, December 18, 2011.
Wael Ghonim Interview with Mona el-Shazly
Dreams TV
2011, :30
“Equally pivotal was the intensely telegenic footage of a boyish marketing executive at Google weeping on television at the height of the protests. Having been held for twelve days, in part for his role as administrator of the Said Facebook page, Wael Ghonim emerged as the Western-friendly face of the protesters. “I am not a hero,” he opined to popular talk-show host Mona el-Shazly; “this is the revolution of the youth of the Internet,” he said, then burst into tears. Ghonim’s melodramatic yet extremely affecting public mourning pushed many middle-class Egyptians, previously on the fence, into Tahrir Square to join the demonstrations. Later, he would be hailed by Barack Obama as “the Google Guy.” A $2.5 million book deal would follow, and there was even talk of a Nobel Prize.”

For more information, read Negar Azimi’s article in the December In Print.
Los Four / The Murals of Aztlan, 1974 (Gilbert Magu Lujan Excerpt)
James Tartan / UCLAChicanoStudies
1974, 1:54
A tribute to Magu excerpted from the documentary, Los Four / The Murals of Aztlan, 1974
Los Four / The Murals of Aztlan, 1974, 1981 (excerpt)
James Tartan / UCLAChicanoStudies
1974 and 1981, 2:27
Los Four. Documents the first exhibition of Chicano artists held at a major art museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 1974. Los Four (1973–1983) was an influential Chicano art collective that included Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert Magu Sanchez Lujan, Roberto de la Rocha, and Frank Romero. The documentary captures the group's debates over art, politics, and community, while it also reveals their experimentation with spray-can techniques, found object, and installation art as well as their self-conscious efforts to develop Chicano icons.

1974. 16mm. Color. 22:55.

Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles. Documents the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: The Street Painters of East Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles in 1981. The exhibition featured portable murals in the gallery space painted by some of the leading Chicano and Chicana artists: Carlos Almaraz, Gronk, Judithe Hernandez, Willie Herron, Frank Romero, John Valadez, and the East Los Streetscapers (David Rivas Botello, Wayne Alaniz Healy, and George Yepes).

1981. 16mm. Color. 22:55.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Pina Bausch, Cafe Müller, 1978
www.estasia.info
1978, 49:18
Director and choreographer Pina Bausch

Cast: Pina Bausch, Malou Airaudo, Dominique Mercy, Jan Minarik, Nazareth Panadero, Jean Laurent Sasportes.

Musiсhe: Henry Purcell / The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas
Anthony Kiedis Celebrates Ed Ruscha
Pacific Standard Time
2011, 2:57
Singer-songwriter Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha drive the Sunset Strip and talk in a candid interview about art and the words that inspire them in painting and song. For more information on Kiedis and Ruscha visit pacificstandardtime.org.
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.
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."
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.
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames
Pacific Standard Time
2011, 2:16
Ice Cube drives down Inglewood Boulevard, describing the Los Angeles that he knows and brings us to a tour of the Eames House, as an homage to the years he studied architectural drafting before launching his rap career.

For more info on Ice Cube & The Eames visit pacificstandardtime.org.
Hany Adel, Amir Eid Hawary, and Sherif Mostafa, Voice of Freedom, 2011
Hany Adel, Amir Eid Hawary, and Sherif Mostafa
2011, 4:03
Music video produced during the Egyptian Revolutions in 2011.

For more information, read Negar Azimi’s article in the December In Print.
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.
Pacific Standard Time's Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari
Pacific Standard Time
2011, 4:44
Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. For more info on Schwartzman & Baldessari visit pacificstandardtime.org.

Actor Jason Schwartzman drops his friend off at LACMA and keeps walking along Wilshire because he doesn't like museums. He is surprised by John Baldessari's light projected head. Baldessari's head follows him and explains ones taste for art matures likes one taste for cheese. Jason escapes Baldessari and runs into Jeff Garland at Rays and Stark bar. Jason tries to convince Jeff that Baldessari's head is following him to which Jeff says I don't see him but don't complain as he's a master artist. So Jason walks along while Baldessari educates him on art, cubism, impressionists, Broadway Boogie Woogie, and tells Schwartzman not to be intimidated of museums because art is fun. Soundtrack is "Any Fun on Davy" album by Jason's band Coconut records.

Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.
Hatsune Miku, World is Mine, 2010. Live in Tokyo
Sega and Crypton Future Media, Inc.
2010, 2:53
Hatsune Miku hologram performing live in concert, Zepp Tokyo, Odaiba, Japan, March 9, 2010.

For more information, read Venus X’s Best of 2011 Music in the December In Print.
Pina Bausch, Orphee et Euridice, 2008
www.estasia.info
2008, 2:02:58
Opera National de Paris - 2008
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Merce Cunningham, Split Sides, 2003. (Silas Riener solo at BAM, Dec. 2011)
2:42
Silas Riener in Merce Cunningham's Split Sides, 2003.
Music by Radiohead & Sigur Ros
Decor by Robert Heisman & Catherine Yass
Costumes by James Hall

Performed during the Legacy Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, December 2011.
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.
Architect Peter Zumthor, Pritzker Prize Laureate in 2009
Hip Hop Island Dot Com
2010, 7:50
Peter Zumthor (born Basel, Switzerland) is an architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2009. Zumthor studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York. Zumthor's practice incorporates his knowledge of materials into Modernist construction and detailing. His buildings explore the tactile and sensory qualities of spaces while retaining a minimalist feel.
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
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.
Hennesy Youngman, Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst, 2011
3:38
Hennesy Youngman, Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst, 2011

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