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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.
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."
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)
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).
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.
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.
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.
Marina Abramović and Ulay, Imponderabilia, 1977. (Excerpt)
9:56
Marina Abramović and Ulay, Imponderabilia, 1977. (Excerpt)
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
yann beauvais, Hezraellah, 2006
2006, :48
yann beauvais responds to recent strife in Lebanon using text and image in this video compilation .
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.
Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax “March of Time” Newsreel (1935)
3:30
Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax “March of Time” Newsreel (1935).
Trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, 2010.
Tim Burton
1:59
A trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, (2010).
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
Bas Jan Ader, Nightfall, 1971
Bas Jan Ader
1971, 4:20
A video re-creation of nightfall.
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.
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.
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.
Alex Bag, Untitled Fall '95, 1995
1995, 6:21
Alex Bag portrays “Bag,” a struggling student in New York City during the 1990s.
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.
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'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."
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.
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)"

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