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Andy Warhol, Blow Job, 1964 (excerpt)
1963, 35 min (original)
The first eight minutes of Andy Warhol's thirty-five-minute film Blow Job (1964), a steady shot of the face of actor DeVeren Bookwalter as he supposedly receives a blow job.
Keren Cytter, Continuity, 2005
2005, 4:41
Cytter’s 2005 video based on Julio Cortazár’s short story “Continuity of Parks” (1967).
Marina Abramović, Rhythm 10, 1999 (excerpt)
1999, 1:47
Abramović's iconic performance Rhythm 10 from 1973, which she recreated in 1999.
James Kalm on Kara Walker/Whitney Museum Opening
2007, 9:59
James Kalm navigates through Kara Walker's first museum retrospective titled "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love." For more information click here.
Dan Graham, Rock My Religion (excerpt)
Dan Graham
1982–84, 9:44 (original 55:27)
From Electronic Arts Intermix:

"Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. With the "reeling and rocking" of religious revivals as his point of departure, Graham analyzes the emergence of rock music as religion with the teenage consumer in the isolated suburban milieu of the 1950s, locating rock's sexual and ideological context in post-World War II America. The music and philosophies of Patti Smith, who made explicit the trope that rock is religion, are his focus. This complex collage of text, film footage and performance forms a compelling theoretical essay on the ideological codes and historical contexts that inform the cultural phenomenon of rock `n' roll music.

Original Music: Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth. Sound: Ian Murray, Wharton Tiers. Narrators: Johanna Cypis, Dan Graham. Editors: Matt Danowski, Derek Graham, Ian Murray, Tony Oursler. Produced by Dan Graham and the Moderna Museet."
Maya Deren, Meditation on Violence, 1948, Part I
1948, 6:52
In Meditation on Violence (1948) Deren's camera is motivated by the movement of the performer, Chao Li Chi.
Interview with Director Sergey Dvortsevoy: Part I
New York Film Festival
2008, 8:19
In the first part of this interview session, Scott Foundas asks Director Sergey Dvortsevoy about the making of his recent film, Tulpan (2008). His answers reveal the intention for authenticity and the preservation of the natural potency of the landscape of Southern Kazahkstan.
Nicolas Bourriaud on "Altermodern" at Tate Britain
4:07
Tate Britain curator Nicolas Bourriaud discusses his hypothesis that postmodernism is over and that a new type of modern—the altermodern—is emerging. More on Bourriard's manifesto is available here.
Kalup Linzy documentary (excerpt)
Art Production Fund
2009, 6:20
An excerpt from a documentary on Kalup Linzy produced by Art Production Fund. To read Linzy's 500 Words interview, click here.
Koolhaas CCTV Building on fire
2009, 2:08
Footage from the fire on February 9, 2009, at the CCTV complex. For coverage of the story, click here.
James Kalm on Damien Hirst/Lever House Opening
2007, 10:03
James Kalm explores British artist Damien Hirst's decadent installation titled "School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge" at the Lever House.
Trailer for 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
1:11
The official trailer for the release of 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests.

To read Ed Halter's coverage of the DVD for Artforum.com, click here.
Klaus Biesenbach discusses Pipilotti Rist's exhibition at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art
2008
Curator Klaus Bisenbach discusses "Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" on view at the Museum of Modern Art from November 19, 2008–February 2, 2009.
Trailer for Tulpan (2008)
Sergey Dvortsevoy
2008, 2:25
In this film, Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy adapts his documentary technique to tell the fictional story of Asa, a young man following his dream on the picturesque steppes of his beloved homeland. This film was the winner of three awards at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival.
News footage on Mark Wallinger's Ebbsfleet sculpture
2009, 1:26
"The winning design's been picked for a large public sculpture in Ebbsfleet in Kent—artist Mark Wallinger explains why he chose a horse."

For Artforum.com's news item on the subject, click here.
Andy Warhol, Heat, 1972 (trailer)
A trailer for the Andy Warhol–produced, Paul Morrissey–directed film Heat (1972), staring Joe Dallesandro.
Luis Gispert, Block Watching, 2003
1:57
Luis Gispert's video Block Watching.
James Kalm on Lisa Yuskavage/David Zwirner Opening
2009, 10:09
James Kalm documents the opening reception at David Zwirner gallery for Lisa Yuskavage's recent paintings. For more information, click here.
General Idea, Shut the Fuck Up, 1984 (Part III)
Color video, 6 minutes 19 seconds
From "Video Art in Canada":

"...Using ironic and iconic excerpts from television and film from the 1960s, such as The Joker character from Batman and part of the historic footage of artist Yves Klein's painting and performance from Mondo Cane, General Idea examine the relationship between the mass media and the artist. Recalling Klein's use of 'IKB' — International Klein Blue or chroma-key blue — they revisit their own performance of XXX blue, 1984, at Centre d'art Contemporain in Geneva, where the artists painted large Xs using stuffed poodles dipped in blue paint. The video reveals the meaning of language and iconography in their work, and provides some background for their choice of poodles as mascot and metaphor. As Felix Partz comments: 'Those who live to please, must please to live.'

In Shut the Fuck Up, General Idea underline the media's insistence that only gossip and spectacle make art and artists interesting to the public. On the contrary, General Idea point out, artists are no fools, nor do they operate within "a passive yet cleverly deceitful, alienated cult of the imbecile.' Jorge Zontal has the last word: 'When there is nothing to say, shut the fuck up.'""

For Parts I and II, click here.
General Idea, Shut the Fuck Up, 1984 (Part I and II)
Color video, 7 minutes 45 seconds
From "Video Art in Canada":

"...Using ironic and iconic excerpts from television and film from the 1960s, such as The Joker character from Batman and part of the historic footage of artist Yves Klein's painting and performance from Mondo Cane, General Idea examine the relationship between the mass media and the artist. Recalling Klein's use of 'IKB' — International Klein Blue or chroma-key blue — they revisit their own performance of XXX blue, 1984, at Centre d'art Contemporain in Geneva, where the artists painted large Xs using stuffed poodles dipped in blue paint. The video reveals the meaning of language and iconography in their work, and provides some background for their choice of poodles as mascot and metaphor. As Felix Partz comments: 'Those who live to please, must please to live.'

In Shut the Fuck Up, General Idea underline the media's insistence that only gossip and spectacle make art and artists interesting to the public. On the contrary, General Idea point out, artists are no fools, nor do they operate within "a passive yet cleverly deceitful, alienated cult of the imbecile.' Jorge Zontal has the last word: 'When there is nothing to say, shut the fuck up.'""

For Part III, click here.
Pe Lang + Zimoun, Untitled Sound Objects, 2008
bitforms gallery
2008; 0:32
Using John Cage as a point of departure, Pe Lang + Zimoun’s Untitled Sound Objects, 2008, presents 400 bouncing vibration motors in wooden cases. Their “Untitled Sound Objects” series aims to transform constructed noise into ambient sound.
James Kalm on James Turrell/Pace Wildenstein Opening
2007, 4:46
James Kalm encounters a fluorescent world of floating rectangles in the installation titled "James Turrell: Light Leadings" at Pace Wildenstein. For more information click here.
James Kalm on Kenneth Anger/P.S.1 Opening
2009, 10:08
James Kalm documents Kenneth Anger's evocative and iconic films at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Click here to find out more.
Trailer for Gomorrah (2008)
Matteo Garrone
Trailer for Matteo Garrone's film Gomorrah (2008), which won the Grand Prix award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Gomorrah opens in New York and Los Angeles on February 13. “The Films of Matteo Garrone,” a retrospective of the director’s work, will be on view at BAMcinématek February 12–17. For more details, click here.

To read Alexander Stille's piece on the film in the February issue of Artforum, click here.
A message from Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2009
"Thomas P. Campbell, the new director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, invites you to explore the encyclopedic collections and to take part in the stellar exhibition and educational programming available to Museum visitors."
James Kalm on Kim Jones/PIEROGI 2000 opening
2008, 9:56
James Kalm visits at Kim Jones's opening at PIEROGI 2000 in 2008. For more information click here.
“The Power of Ornament”
CastYourArt
2009, 7:16
“The Power of Ornament,” an exhibition at the Orangery, Lower Belvedere in Vienna, curator Sabine B. Vogel points out that a movement has begun which uses ornamentation to make the conditions of modern visible and therefore subject to critique. For information click here.
James Broughton, This Is It
1971, 9:03
Robert Greenspun, the New York Times: "James Broughton's creation myth, This Is It, places a two-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends."
Rirkrit Tiravanija Ping-Pong at Nyehaus
New York magazine
2009, 1:36
New York's Tim Murphy takes a look at an evening of ping-pong at Nyehaus on the occasion of Rirkrit Tiravanija's show "Reflection." To read Michael Wilson's write-up of the evening for Artforum.com, click here.
Performance from opening of Angela Ellsworth's "Underpinnings"
2009, 3:54
"For her opening of "Underpinnings" at the Lisa Sette gallery, Angela Ellsworth had performance artists intermingling with her crowd. Moving like zombies through the throngs of gallery visitors, each sister wife was armed with an object taken from one of the performance pieces illustrated by Ellsworth's embroidered drawings and would act out salient parts of the old performance pieces. Unsuspecting passersby were completely stunned and confused when they would happen upon a sister wife delicately clutching a knife or machine gun or stuffing a rag in her mouth, all of which objects were black."

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