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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.
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.
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).
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Katzelmacher, 1969 (Excerpt)
1969, 0:46
A scene from Fassbinder’s film Katzelmacher, 1969.
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.
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
David Robbins, TV Commercial for The Suburban, 2010.
2010, 0:45
A commercial by artist David Robbins for The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois.
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.
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.
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.
Ryan McGinley, The Lightness of Being an Olympian, 2010
2010, 2:14
Ryan McGinley's video for the New York Times Magazine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Skip Arnold, Punch, 1992
timbonesia
1992, :09
Skip Arnold implicates bodily risk in this 1992 video performance.
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
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.”
Reggie Watts on POPTUB
2009, 3:28
A lively set of musical stylings by Brooklyn comedian Reggie Watts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trailer for Howl, 2010
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
1:42
Trailer for Rob Epstein’s and Jeffrey Friedman’s, Howl, 2010.
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.

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