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  • Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975.
    6:13
    “I was concerned with something like the notion of ‘language speaking the subject,’ and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.” – Martha Rosler
  • Miranda July, Love Diamond, 2000
    BAVC
    2000, 5:39
    Love Diamond is the first full-length performance work by contemporary artist Miranda July. It was commissioned by the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and performed at The Kitchen in 2000.
     
    BAVC preserved and digitized the work.
     
    Written, directed, and performed by Miranda July mirandajuly.com
    Live score: Zac Love Painting: Jamie Isenstein
  • Trailer for Kevin Jerome Everson's Erie, 2010.
    1:22
    “Erie consists of a series of single take shots in and around communities near Lake Erie. The scenes relate to a Black migration in the USA, contemporary conditions, folks concentrating on the task at hand, theater and famous art objects.
     
    I’m hanging out, coolin’, on the frames that connect the necessity and the coincidence. Formally, that is.With a sense of place and historical research, my films combine scripted and documentary elements with rich elements of formalism. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working class African Americans and other people of African descent. The conditions are usually physical, social-economic circumstances or weather. Instead of standard realism I favor a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re-edited or re-staged, real people perform fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives. The films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life––along with its beauty—but also present oblique metaphors for art-making.” (Everson)
  • Bruce Nauman, Pinchneck, 1968
    1968, 2:11
    In several of his films Bruce Nauman manipulates his flesh. Here he pinches his neck as well as his cheeks and mouth.
  • Trailer for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 2010.
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    2010 2:33
    Uncle Boonmee is showing at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival, and is part of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Primitive project. To read our 500 Words interview with the filmmaker, click here.
  • Bas Jan Ader, Nightfall, 1971
    Bas Jan Ader
    1971, 4:20
    A video re-creation of nightfall.
  • Thom Anderson, Los Angeles Plays Itself, 2003 (Excerpt)
    Thom Anderson
    2003, 6:41
    Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself dismantles not only popular stereotypes about the City of Angels, but also its most famous trademark, Hollywood. Packed with clips from nearly 200 films set in Los Angeles Andersen’s immersive cine-essay divides and examines the city threefold: as background, character, and subject.
  • Corin Hewitt, Seed Bed, 2008
    Whitney Museum
    2008, 3:22
    Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney in this installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, Hewitt physically moves about the space and engages in the manipulation of materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning the autonomy of the art object through a process of its constant transmutation.
  • Trailer for Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop, 2010.
    1:17
    Trailer for Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop, 2010.
  • Sam Taylor-Wood, A Little Death, 2002
    2002, 4:36
    Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psychological conditions.
  • Trailer for Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould.
    2:38
    Trailer for Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould.
  • Eric Andersen, Opus 74 Version 2, 1966
    drzewko
    1966, 1:41
    Eric Andersen considers diverse elements of daily routine in his 1966 dada-inspired contribution to Fluxus Films.
  • Ann Liv Young, Michael, 2005. (Intro)
    4:09
    The introduction to Ann Liv Young‘s Michael, 2005, at Dance Theater Workshop. David Velasco’s article on Young's work is available in the September issue of Artforum and also online here.
  • Trailer for Takako Matsumoto's Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me, 2008.
    Takako Matsumoto
    1:02.
    This documentary features the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, a polka dot loving artist recognized throughout the international art world. This film captures Kusama's creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of fifty large monochrome drawings. As her work comes to life, one can witness the essence of her art as it wells up in the conflict between life, death, and love; sometimes quietly and sometimes just the opposite.
  • Sam Taylor-Wood, Still Life, 2001
    2001, 3:18
    This work examines the split between being and appearance. The artist often places her human subjects––either alone or in groups––in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict.
  • Ira Sachs, Last Address
    8:36
    An elegiac film made up of exterior images of the last residential addresses of a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS.
     
    a film by Ira Sachs
    produced by Lucas Joaquin
    shot by Michael Simmonds
    edited by Brian A. Kates
    sound by Damian Volpe
    additional assistance by Jonathan Boyd and Andrei Alupului
  • Trailer for Kevin Jerome Everson's Spicebush, 2005
    1:34
    “Spicebush is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning education, landscapes, gaining and losing a job, and the passage of time. The technique and style employed alternates between the documentary, the symbolic, and more conventionally scripted scenes. Filming individuals engaged in their careers conveys the documentary aspect. At a symbolic level, the fossil is a leitmotif suggesting past and present. The title of the film refers to the state butterfly of Mississippi, Spicebush Swallowtail. In the film, Mississippi is a place of origin. The Spicebush Swallowtail represents renewal or starting over. Throughout the film, a little girl appears in different guises and settings, functioning indirectly in the role of the chorus. The scripted scenes, shot in a documentary style, collaged with the other scenes begin to create the traces of a narrative structure. (16mm, mini DV, 70:00, color, black and white)”
  • Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, 1971.
    Julian House
    1971, 2:45.
    Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then. Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
  • Joel Shapiro Show at Pace Gallery
    4:28
    A filmic exploration of Joel Shapiro's installation at the Pace Gallery, consisting of five sculptures: Float and Was Blue (main gallery); Blue Cad/Red Deep and Plank (side room, back); For Anna (side room, front). An interconnected assortment of rectangular wood planks, coated in casein of different colors, are suspended from the ceiling and anchored to walls and floor with fishing line and pegs.
     
    Filmed by Liza Béar on May 13, 2010.
  • Alex Bag, Untitled Fall '95, 1995
    1995, 6:21
    Alex Bag portrays “Bag,” a struggling student in New York City during the 1990s.
  • Lucy Raven’s Trailer for China Town, 2010
    1:14
    This is the trailer for China Town, an experimental video essay using thousands of photographs to trace copper production from an open pit mine in Nevada to a smelter in China and beyond.
  • Ann Liv Young, The Bagwell In Me, 2008. (Excerpt)
    Ann Liv Young, The Bagwell in Me, 2008. (Excerpt)
    An excerpt from Ann Liv Young‘s The Bagwell In Me, 2008, at The Kitchen in New York. David Velasco’s article on Young's work is available in the September issue of Artforum and also online here.
     
    Performers: Ann Liv Young and Isabel Lewis.
  • Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 3
    10:00
    Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 3
     
    Part 1 can be found here.
    Part 2 can be found here.
    Part 4 can be found here.
  • Interview with Thorkell S. Hardarson and Orn Marino Arnarson
    Liza Béar
    7:34
    “Tribeca Film Festival, New York, May 2, 2010—In this interview, Icelandic producer/directors Thorkell S. Hardarson and Orn Marino Arnarson discuss how their film, Feathered Cocaine, originally intended to be a history of falconry, entered a world of intrigue and geopolitics once they made contact with Alan Howell Parrot, a falcon trainer since the age of eighteen. Parrot, who became the protagonist of Feathered Cocaine, is one of the worlds leading falcon trainers with strong connections in the Middle East, where he formerly trained hunting falcons for the Persian Gulf power elite, including the King of Saudi Arabia, the President of the United Arab Emirates, and the Shah of Iran. After witnessing relentless falcon smuggling in the wake of the USSR‘s collapse, he left the Middle East and formed a global nature conservation group with like-minded people to protect the falcons.
     
    Through his connections, Parrot learned of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, who is an obsessed falconer. He has tried to relay this information to the Bush administration since 2005 (and to the Obama Administration since he took office in 2009), yet has met silence or obstruction. The FBI, CIA, NSA, OCO, and Rewards For Justice program have all chosen not to reach out to the one man who says he has gone falcon hunting with Osama Bin Laden six times since 2004. Feathered Cocaine’s intriguing cocktail of geopolitics, terrorism, petrodollars, and nature conservation sheds light on how business is conducted in the global merry-go-round of money and politics.
     
    After its world premiere at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival, Feathered Cocaine is playing at Hot Docs, Toronto, on May 4 and May 6.”
  • “Nowhere to Run,” 1965, by Martha and the Vandellas on CBS
    3:00
    Videotaped performance of “Nowhere to Run,” 1965, by Martha and the Vandellas staged by Motown producers and Murray “the K” Kaufman for broadcast on his TV show It’s What’s Happening, Baby on CBS.
  • Trailer for Mourir Comme un Homme (Die Like a Man), 2009
    João Pedro Rodrigues
    3:12, 2009
    Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbon’s drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status. Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identity, the sex change operation that will transform her into a woman, Tonia struggles against her deeply-held religious convictions. If, on the one hand, she wants to be the woman that Rosário so desires, on the other, she knows that before God she can never be that woman. And her son, whom she abandoned when he was a child, now a deserter, comes looking for her.
  • Joel Shapiro's Early Works at Paula Cooper Gallery
    Liza Béar
    3:06
    “A visit to an exhibition of early works (1969–1979) by Joel Shapiro at the Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, New York. Intimate in scale but psychologically intense, mostly cast in iron or bronze, these hand-sized sculptures bucked the trend in the 70s towards more massive forms. Either unique objects or in a limited edition, they were first shown at Paula Cooper downtown in 1970, pre-SoHo, and at the Clocktower on Broadway and Leonard.”
     
  • Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 4
    3:01
    Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 4
     
    Part 1 can be found here.
    Part 2 can be found here.
    Part 3 can be found here.
  • CBS Special on “The Responsive Eye” (1965) at MoMA. (Part 3)
    9:16
    Mike Wallace CBS special on “The Responsive Eye” (1965) at MoMA. (Part 3)
     
    Part one is here.
    Part two is here.
  • Richard Serra, Surprise Attack, 1973
    1973, 2:18
    During a period in the 1970s, Richard Serra began using video, sometimes as a reference point his sculpture. The lead in Surprise Attack, is a reference to his sculpture, and to his 1968 film Hand Catching Lead. The video involves the piece of lead being tossed back and forth, while reciting an excerpt from Thomas C. Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict (1960). The act is simplistic, and similar to physical motions used while thinking or speaking, is done to assist memory. The artist seems as though he is trying to recall a previous event.
  • Trailer for Francesco Vezolli, Ballet Russes Italian Style, 2010
    Jonas Akerlund
    2010, 2:55
    Trailer by Jonas Akerlund for Francesco Vezolli’s Ballet Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again) featuring Lady Gaga. Performed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s thirtieth anniversary gala, November 2009.
  • Performance documentation of SHRED THE GNAR FULL MOON FILM NOIR, 2010
    Jennifer West
    2010 (5:09)
    Footage of the creation of SHRED THE GNAR FULL MOON FILM NOIR, 2010, a project commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum. The work is a 35-mm film print and negative shredded and stomped on by snowboarders and a few skiers catching air during Aspen Big Air Competition and Fallen Friends Event. The film was marked with blue course dye and sprayed with Diet Coke, Bud Lite, and whiskey, which was then taken to a hot tub with epsom salts, rubbed with arnica, K-Y Jelly, butter, and Advil.
  • Trailer for Howl, 2010
    Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
    1:42
    Trailer for Rob Epstein’s and Jeffrey Friedman’s, Howl, 2010.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company, site specific performance, Battery Park, NY 2009
    River To River Festival
    2:17
    Merce Cunningham, arguably the most influential American choreographer of the last half century, passed away on July 26, 2009. This clip shows excerpts of his company's free performance given less than one week later in lower Manhattan.
  • Marina Abramović and Ulay, Imponderabilia, 1977. (Excerpt)
    9:56
    Marina Abramović and Ulay, Imponderabilia, 1977. (Excerpt)
  • yann beauvais, Hezraellah, 2006
    2006, :48
    yann beauvais responds to recent strife in Lebanon using text and image in this video compilation .
  • David Shrigley’s Video for Save the Arts UK
    Save the Arts UK
    3:45, 2010
    Save the Arts UK is organized by the London branch of a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organizations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK. The costs of David Shrigley’s animation have been covered with a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
  • Laurie Anderson, Difficult Listening Hour, 1986. (Excerpt)
    LukeK79
    1986, 2:13
    Laurie Anderson uncovers the mystery of language in this segment from her 1986 broadcast of “The Kitchen Series: Two Moon July.”
  • Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953. Excerpt.
    3:06
    Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953. “Two Little Girls From Little Rock,” Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw (Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell).
  • Trailer for Odete (Two Drifters), 2005
    João Pedro Rodrigues
    2:55, 2005
    The trailer for João Pedro Rodrigues’s 2005 film revolving around a bizarre love triangle between a dead gay man, his lover, and a young woman who desires a father for her unborn baby.
  • Ulay and Marina Abramović, AAA AAA, 1978
    1978, 9:52
    This work shows half-length portraits of Abramović and Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths. In the course of the performance, which lasts fifteen minutes, they move ever closer to each other until they are yelling into each other’s open mouths. While in the beginning, they were breathing in at the same time and produced sounds of about the same duration, the rhythm sometimes changed: When one of them was breathing in, the other kept the sound going.
  • Jennifer Reeve‘s The Girl’s Nervy, 1995
    1995, 5:00
    Jennifer Reeves (also known as Jennifer Todd Reeves) is an American experimental filmmaker based in New York who works primarily on 16-mm film.
  • Skip Arnold, Punch, 1992
    timbonesia
    1992, :09
    Skip Arnold implicates bodily risk in this 1992 video performance.
  • Trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, 2010.
    Tim Burton
    1:59
    A trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, (2010).
  • Richard Serra, Hand Catching Lead, 1968
    1968, 3:02
    Richard Serra's first film features a single shot of a hand in an attempt to repeatedly catch chunks of material dropped from the top of the frame.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Linoleum, 1967. (Excerpt)
    artpopulus
    1967, 4:07
    Robert Rauschenberg choreographs dancers and set pieces in this 1967 performance to explore dualities of movement and inertia on the stage.
  • Cory Arcangel, Naptime, 2002
    2002, 1:26
    This 2002 work is emblematic of Cory Arcangel's interest in the relationship between technology, culture, and appropriation.
  • Renzo Martens, Enjoy Poverty, Episode 3, 2008 (Excerpt)
    2008, 1:05
    Dutch artist Renzo Martens and Inti Films present Enjoy Poverty, a documentary-style film set in the Congo.
  • Yvonne Rainer teaches “Martha Graham” Trio A
    3:05
    Yvonne Rainer attempts to teach her predecessor and aesthetic nemesis Martha Graham (Richard Move), her signature solo work Trio A. From Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2002).
  • CBS special on “The Responsive Eye” (1965) at MoMA. (Part 1)
    8:05
    Mike Wallace CBS Special on “The Responsive Eye” (1965) at MoMA. (Part 1)
     
    Part two is here.
    Part three is here.
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Katzelmacher, 1969 (Excerpt)
    1969, 0:46
    A scene from Fassbinder’s film Katzelmacher, 1969.
  • Beth B, Stigmata, 1991. (Excerpt)
    Beth B
    1991, 7:12
    American artist Beth B interviews six young Americans to examine precursors for drug addiction in this excerpt from her 1991 film, Stigmata.
  • Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 1
    9:27
    Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. (Part 1)
     
    Part 2 can be found here.
    Part 3 can be found here.
    Part 4 can be found here.
  • CBS special on “The Responsive Eye” (1965) at MoMA. (Part 2)
    9:34
    1965 Mike Wallace CBS special on “The Responsive Eye” at MoMA. (Part 2)
     
    Part one is here.
    Part three is here.
  • Martha Friedman Discusses Her Show at the DeCordova
    John Arthur Peetz
    2:59, 2010
    Martha Friedman discusses her show at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park with John Arthur Peetz. For Friedman's 500 Words, click here.
  • Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 2
    9:55
    Jérôme Bel, Veronique Doisneau, 2005. Part 2
     
    Part 1 can be found here.
    Part 3 can be found here.
    Part 4 can be found here.
  • Reggie Watts on POPTUB
    2009, 3:28
    A lively set of musical stylings by Brooklyn comedian Reggie Watts.
  • Ann Liv Young, Michael, 2005. (Excerpt)
    2:54
    An excerpt from Ann Liv Young‘s Michael, 2005, at Dance Theater Workshop in New York. David Velasco’s article on Young's work is available in the September issue of Artforum and also online here.
     
    In order of appearance: Renée Archibald, Trenton Duerkson, Liz Santoro, and Ann Liv Young.
  • David Robbins, TV Commercial for The Suburban, 2010.
    2010, 0:45
    A commercial by artist David Robbins for The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois.
  • Trailer for Je Veux Voir (I want to see), 2008
    Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
    2008, 1:43
    Trailer for Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's I Want to See, which stars Catherine Deneuve and Rabin Mroué.
  • Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Swamp, 1971.
    6:06
    Restricting her vision to the viewfinder of a video camera, Nancy Holt traverses a swamp with Robert Smithson as her guide in this seminal 1971 film.
  • John Smith, Girl Chewing Gum, 1976 (Excerpt)
    1976, 9:13
    “Sharp and direct, the film anticipates the more elaborate scenarios to come; witty, many-layered, punning, but also seriously and poetically haunted by drama’s ineradicable ghost.” –A.L. Rees, A Directory of British Film & Video Artists, 1995
  • Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax “March of Time” Newsreel (1935)
    3:30
    Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax “March of Time” Newsreel (1935).
  • Ryan McGinley, The Lightness of Being an Olympian, 2010
    2010, 2:14
    Ryan McGinley's video for the New York Times Magazine.
  • Paul Bowles in Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky, 1990
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    1990, 0:45
    Paul Bowles reads at the end of Bertolucci’s film The Sheltering Sky, 1990.
  • Trailer for The Deer Hunter, 1978
    Michael Cimino
    1978, 3:05
    Trailer for Michael Cimino’s film starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, George Dzundza, Chuck Aspegren, Joe Grifasi, Rutanya Alda, Mary Ann Haenel, Mady Kaplan, Richard Kuss, Pierre Segui, Shirley Stoler, and Amy Wright.
  • Fred Astaire, Bojangles of Harlem, 1936
    Fred Astaire
    1936, 2:53
    Fred Astaire makes a rare use of special effects in this playful tribute to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson from the musical Swing Time.
  • Kenneth Anger, Missoni Fall/Winter 2010 Campaign Video
    2:32
    Kenneth Anger‘s campaign video for Missoni’s Fall/Winter 2010 Campaign. With music by Koudlam.
  • Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Menopause Man, 2010
    4AD
    2010, 5:35
    Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti performs “Menopause Man” from their 2010 album Before Today.
  • György Ligeti, Poeme Symphonique For 100 Metronomes, 1962
    György Ligeti
    1962, 8:15
    The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes in 1962, during his brief acquaintance with the Fluxus movement. The piece requires ten “performers,” and most of their efforts take place without the audience present. Each of the hundred metronomes is set up on the performance platform, and they are all then wound to their maximum extent and set to different speeds. Once they are all fully wound they are all started as simultaneously as possible. The performers then leave. The audience is then admitted, and take their places while the metronomes are all ticking. As the metronomes wind down one after another and stop, periodicity becomes noticeable in the sound, and individual metronomes can be more clearly made out. The piece typically ends with just one metronome ticking alone for a few beats.
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