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Chris Burden, Beam Drop Inhotim, 2008.
5:37
Documentation of Chris Burden's Beam Drop Inhotim, 2008, in Inhotim, Brazil.
Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, 2009
6:40
Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, 2009
Aakash Nihalani, Cuban, 2008.
2008, 3:07
Aakash Nihalani installs street art throughout New York City. Music by Q-Tip.
Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, Prepare, 2009. Performance view.
1:27
Pianist Walter Aparicio performs in Allora & Calzadilla's "Stop, Repair, Prepare" exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, January 2009.
Jack Smith, Scotch Tape, 1959–62
3:07
Jack Smith's 16-mm film Scotch Tape, 1959–62, as screened on the Sundance channel.

From J. Hoberman's notes for the catalogue for "Live Film! Jack Smith!": "Jack Smith's first released movie is an apparently edited-in-camera 100-foot role of Kodachrome II shot in 1959, using Ken Jacobs's 16mm Bell & Howell at one of Jacobs's Star Spangled to Death locations—the rubble-strewn site of the future Lincoln Center on Manhattan's west side."
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Art History With Benefits, at X-Initiative
2:00
From Performa TV:

"A half-hour presentation examining the romance, figuratively and literally, between cultural funding and sex, drawn from such diverse sources as environmental psychologist Pace Underhill "WHy We Buy"; George BUchner"Danto n' Death"; and congressional records concerning the NEA Debates of the late 80s."
Amy Granat and Felicia Ballos, Innocence in Extremis, 2009, at Emily Harvey
2:33
From PerformaTV:

"Felicia Ballos and Amy Granat are both native of St. Louis, MO, and are both founding members of Cinema Zero in Brooklyn."
Nikhil Chopra performs at Khoj International Artists Workshop, 2008 (1 of 2)
5:01, 2008
Nikhil Chopra performs during the Khoj International Artists Workshop, March 25, 2008. To read his 500 Words click here.
Vaginal Davis in That Fertile Feeling (Part One)
4:53
This short video features rebelious "Afro Sisters" Vaginal Creme Davis and Fertile Latoya Jackson.
Blu, Muto, 2008.
2008, 7:26
The short film by street artist Blu with an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and Baden.
Stuart Sherman Interview, 1983. (Part Two)
Kestutis Nakas
1983, (9:54)
Stuart Sherman appears on Kestutis Nakas's Your Program of Programs in early 1983.
Ryan McNamara, Sacred Band of Thebes AKA Any Fag Could Do That, @ X-Initiative
2:37
From PerformaTV:

"In 375 BC, the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force composed entirely of homosexual lovers, annihilated the Spartan army, a brigade three times their size, at Tegyra. 2353 years later, party planner Robert Isabell triumphed as well, becoming an instant sensation when he filled Studio 54 with four tons of glitter."
Rabih Mroué, Gift to New York, 2009 at P.S. 122
1:31
From PerformaTV:

"Rabih Mroués surprise reading for New York by an unannounced guest, followed with a 50 minute screening of a selection of his video works including Face A Face B (10 min.), With Soul, with Blood (11 min.), I, the undersigned (7 min.), On three Posters (18 min.) and What know I of beginnings (2 min.).
Hollis Frampton, Critical Mass, 1971. (Excerpt)
Hollis Frampton
1971 (8:15)
"As a work of art I think [Critical Mass] is quite universal and deals with all quarrels (those between men and women, or men and men, or women and women, or children, or war. It is war! . . . It is one of the most delicate and clear statements––human relationships and the difficulties of them––that I have ever seen. It is very funny, and rather obviously so. It is a magic film in that you can enjoy it, with greater appreciation, each time you look at it. Most aesthetic experiences are not enjoyable on the surface. You have to look at them a number of times before you are able to fully enjoy them, but this one stands up at once, and again and again, and is amazingly clear." - Stan Brakhage
Carmen Linares and Juan Carlos Romero, "Remembranzas" from Raíces y Alas, 2008
8:14
Carmen Linares and Juan Carlos Romero, "Remembranzas" from Raíces y Alas, 2008.
Tamar Ettun and Emily Coates, Empty Is Also, 2009, at X-Initiative
2:01
From PerformaTV:

"Integrating objects, a dancer, a musician, and video, Empty Is Also inverts the usual conception of dance and sculpture in relation to the ephemeral by investigating dance's durability versus sculpture's ultimate disposability. The dancer inhabits the sculptural forms even as she rearranges them to create a sequence of landscapes that shift over time. The sculpture reflects the dancer's energy and agency, while her movement absorbs the shape and nature of the objects with which she interacts. The tension between the perceived natures of sculpture and dance serves as the installation's primary conflict, or reason for being. Music by Jane Ira Bloom. AUDIENCE IS INVITED TO ENTER AND LEAVE AT ANY TIME."
Vaginal Davis in That Fertile Feeling (Part Two)
4:15
This short video features rebelious "Afro Sisters" Vaginal Creme Davis and Fertile Latoya Jackson.
Aretha Franklin performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
3:21
Aretha Franklin performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

Courtesy of msnbc.com
Lucinda Childs, Dance, 1979. Trailer for performance at Joyce Theater, 2009.
1:35
Trailer for restaging of Lucinda Childs's Dance, 1979, at The Joyce Theater Oct 6–11, 2009.
Vaginal Davis, Gossips #5, 2007
Christophe Chemin
2007, 8:54
Here, Vaginal Davis performs one of her famous gossip monologues. This is an extract from a video projected during Bruce LaBruce's "Fassbinder-Pasolini-Musical" Cheap Blacky.
Ronnie Bass, The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, 2009. (Excerpt)
2:20
The song I'm Afraid to Go Solo from Ronnie Bass's The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, 2009.
James Benning, Fire & Rain, 2009. Trailer for the 2009 Viennale.
1:22, 2009
From YouTube:

VIENNALE-TRAILER BY JAMES BENNING
Festival-Trailer Fire & Rain

The annual festival trailer has been one of the Viennales special features for quite some time now. It is not a commercial trailer as such, but rather a small, autonomous piece of cinema, standing on its own and for the festival alike.

In the case of James Bennings work this short trailer is a true action film. Benning shot the work process in a steelworks in the Ruhr area. On a kind of conveyor belt, a glowing piece of steel flits across the screen and disappears only to reappear again as a blazing, shining material. Finally, artificial rain falls onto the glowing metal, shrouding the whole image in a cloud of steam and making it disappear.

Created at the Viennales invitation, James Bennings short film is both a simple and subtle piece of cinema. I took the steel rolling process that takes about ten minutes, as the filmmaker explains his approach, and condensed it down to one minute by cutting out portions and hiding the ellipses in time with dissolves.

Following last years Viennale trailer by Jean-Luc Godard, which turned out to be a small miracle of montage art, Bennings work is an equally fascinating cinematic poem about time and motion taking an industrial work process as an example. And it would not be James Benning, had he not chosen the title of an old hippie song by James Taylor as the title for his trailer: Fire and Rain.

The festival trailer Fire & Rain will be screened from September 24 in more than one hundred selected Austrian cinemas and will be shown repeatedly as part of the Viennale program from October 22 to November 4.
Kalup Linzy for Performa 09 at Taxter & Spengemann
5:16
From PerformaTV:

"The drag-queen diva Taiwan, a major character in Linzy's soap-opera series Conversations Wit De Churen, will perform for the first time an acoustic set with accompanying guitar."
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop, 2009. Trailer.
2:21
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop, 2009. Trailer.
Stuart Sherman Interview, 1983. (Part One)
Kestutis Nakas
1983 (5:52)
Stuart Sherman appears on Kestutis Nakas's Your Program of Programs in early 1983. The first part of interview features video by Sherman on a program deemed by the Village Voice as "nebulously cynical."
Sophia Peer, The Body Electric, 2009.
2009 (7:01)
A music video by Sophia Peer for the Baltimore-based band Ponytail.
Screening Room with Hollis Frampton (1977)
Documentary Educational Resources
1977, 9:22
An interview with Hollis Frampton by Robert Gardner. Frampton was a major ﬁgure in the American experimental ﬁlm movement of the 1960s and '70s and a widely published theorist. He made such acclaimed and inﬂuential ﬁlms as Zorns Lemma (1970) the Hapax Legomena series (1971-72), and the unﬁnished Magellan. Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. The journal October twice devoted whole issues to Frampton, and the entire bodyof his ﬁlm work is preserved in the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
Omer Fast, Talk Show, 2009, at Abrons Art Center
3:12
From PerformaTV

"For Performa 09 Omer Fast will combine the familiar childhood game of Broken Telephone with the confessional talk show format. In a theatrical setting, invited guests will recount personal memories with direct links to current global events and the projection of power and freedom. As each guest begins speaking, an actor appears alongside, as an observer, listening to the guest's account for the first time. When the guest is finished, the actor retells what he or she has just heard, while another actor listens to the account and subsequently narrates his or her own rendition of the story. This sequence repeats several times over the course of the evening, allowing the story to spontaneously transform from individual memory to communal recitation, from version to version into its own fluid text."
Trailer for Until the Light Takes Us (2009)
Variance Films
Until The Light Takes Us explores how Norwegian black metal rose to notoriety in the mid-1990s when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists, and music fans worldwide. To read the directors 500 Words with artforum.com click here.
Leidy Churchman, Simultaneously, 2009
Leidy Churchman
2009, 6:38
A music video for the Brooklyn-based band MEN by artist Leidy Churchman. MEN is JD Samson, Michael O'Neill, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.

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