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  • Marianne Faithfull, “Broken English,” 1979. Television performance from 1980.
    2:47
    Marianne Faithfull singing her 1979 song “Broken English” on German television in 1980.
  • A conversation with Polly Apfelbaum
    Brooklyn Museum
    4:26, 2008
    Polly Apfelbaum speaks about her contribution to “Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection” at the Brooklyn Museum.
  • “Positioning Practice”
    SMAC
    6:45
    Curators and architects discuss the ideas and artwork in this exhibition.
  • Simian Mobile Disco performing live at Studio B in Brooklyn, 2007
    3:17
    Simian Mobile Disco performing live at Studio B in Brooklyn, 2007.
  • “Younger Than Jesus”
    SMAC (www.smac.us)
    2009, 4:38
    Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Cory Archangel on “Younger Than Jesus.”
  • Bill Viola, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-79
    6:54, 1977-79
    The American video artist Bill Viola focuses here on a pool and a man frozen mid-air above it.
  • Barton Colin, Intestinal Fortitude, 1991
    UbuWeb
    1:40, 1991
    Multiple layers of this film each contain separate and individual films representing various ideas, ranging from enjoying coffee to an industrial hell.
  • Captain Beefheart, Ice Cream for Crow, 1982
    5:16, 1982
    Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band; directed by Don Van Vliet. This clip was rejected by MTV as “too weird” upon release, it's now in the film and video collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
  • Angie Bonino, No video, 1997
    2:45, 1997
    In this work, artist Angie Bonino raises questions about ethical dilemmas in video art.
  • Damon Rich, Who$e Money is it Anyway?, 2008. (Trailer)
    5:22, 2008
    A video by the Center for Urban Pedagogy. To learn more about CUP, click here.
  • Minor Threat performing live in Baltimore circa 1983.
    2:03
    Minor Threat performing live in Baltimore circa 1983.
  • Performance documentation of Jennifer West's Skate the Sky Film, 2009
    8:23, 2009
    Skateboarders skate over 35 mm filmstrips at the Tate Modern, making scuff marks with their wheels. For Jennifer West's 500 words click here.
  • Tomek Baginski, Fallen Art, 2005
    Future Shorts
    5:54, 2005
    In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.
  • “Cannes Framed”
    Liza Béar
    3:00
    A scene from “The Other Cannes” by Liza Béar.
     
    Filmed on the Croisette at the 56th Festival de Cannes.
  • Malcolm Le Grice, Horror Film, 1971. (Performance view)
    7:51
    Documentation of a 1971 performance by Malcolm Le Grice.
  • Sigur Rós at MoMA
    The Museum of Modern Art
    4:09, 2008
    MoMA's PopRally organized this performance by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, in conjunction with the exhibition “Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.”
  • Steven Lisberger, Tron, 1982. Trailer.
    2:33
    The trailer for Steven Lisberger's Tron, 1982.
  • J.G. Ballard documentary
    BBC Profile
    36:31, 2003
    J.G. Ballard talks to critic Tom Sutcliffe about his life and work.
  • Douglas Edric Stanley demonstrates his Rubik's Cube DJ
    artfuture
    3:30, 2006
    Douglas Edric Stanley demos his Rubik's Cube which has been turned into an interactive instrument to make music.
  • J.G. Ballard in Towards Crash, 1970-71
    BBC
    17:35, 1970-71
    J.G. Ballard narrates and stars in these short BBC films that are based on his 1973 novel Crash.
  • Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, 1965 (excerpt)
    3:05, 1965
    Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) and Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina) discuss the meaning of love in Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.
  • Yves Klein, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings, 1960
    6:58, 1960
    Filmed in 1960, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings consists of two art performances. Musicians play music as Yves Klein directs young women to imprint their blue-painted-bodies onto canvas. The second performance involves the women helping to create an outline of themselves before a torch is used to scorch the canvas.
  • Sarah Michelson, Daylight (for Minneapolis), 2005. (Excerpt)
    10:01
    An excerpt from the middle of Sarah Michelson's dance Daylight (for Minneapolis) performed September 15, 2005, at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis.
  • The ABC's of DADA, 3 of 3
    9:57
    This video highlights the main contributors of DADA.
  • Sun K. Kwak installs Enfolding 280 Hours, 2009
    4:07, 2009
    Sun K. Kwak walks through her installation process at the Brooklyn Museum, transforming the fifth floor gallery using over three miles of masking tape.
  • Jennifer West, Rainbow Party Film on 70MM . . ., 2008
    Jennifer West, Rainbow Party on 70 mm Film (70MM film leader kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks by Jwest and her former students: Mariah Csepanyi, Maggie Romano & Roxana Eslemiah), 2008, 39 seconds. Courtesy Marc Foxx, Los Angeles and Vilma Gold, London. To read her 500 Words click here.
  • Documentary on The Situationist International 1956-1972, 1 of 3
    ICA Boston
    7:22, 1989
    On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, is a documentary blending exhibition footage and interviews as a means of identifying and exploring the international movement.
  • Pina Bausch, Le Sacre Du Printemps, 1973
    7:25
    Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Theater performing the Rite of Spring.
  • Liza Béar interviews director Jose Padilha about Garapa (2009)
    9:59
    From YouTube:
     
    “April 29, 2009—Award-winning Brazilian director Jose Padilha (Bus 174, Elite Squad) discusses his new film, Garapa. Garapa is the Portuguese name for the sugar water given to children to stave off their hunger cravings and often replaces more nourishing food or drink. Shot in the impoverished North East region of Brazil, this powerful and moving documentary chronicles the effects of hunger and malnutrition on three separate families.
     
    The film opens theatrically in Brazil on May 29.”
     
    This interview was conducted, filmed, and edited by Liza Béar.
  • Euromaxx (Deutche Welle) on Arne Jacobsen
    4:05, 2006
    A Euromaxx program about the danish designer Arne Jacobsen, recorded in Copenhagen.
  • Jim Jarmusch, The Limits of Control, 2009. (Trailer)
    1:39
    Trailer for Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control, 2009.
  • Octavia Saint Laurent from Paris is Burning
    2:03
    Octavia Saint Laurent (?–2009).
     
  • The ABC's of DADA, 1 of 3
    9:37
    This video highlights the main contributors of DADA.
  • Marianne Faithfull, “The Crane Wife III,” 2009. Performance on David Letterman.
    4:35
    Marianne Faithfull's performance of “The Crane Wife III” on David Letterman March 31, 2009.
  • Eames Lounge Chair debut in on NBC 1/2, 1956
    4:26, 1956
    Charles and Ray Eames show their new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis “Home” show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956.
  • Ed Emshwiller, Sunstone, 1979
    UbuWeb
    2:55, 1979
    Sunstone proved a artistic breakthrough for Emshwiller, with a technological subtlety of color and shape that gave the three-minute metamorphosis of a face and a cube.
  • Jennifer West, Nirvana Alchemy Film . . ., 2007
    Jennifer West, Nirvana Alchemy Film (16 mm black & white film soaked in lithium mineral hot springs, pennyroyal tea, doused in mud, sopped in bleach, cherry antacid and laxatives - jumping by Finn West & Jwest), 2007, 2 minutes, 51 seconds. Courtesy Marx Foxx, Los Angeles and Vilma Gold, London. To read her 500 Words click here.
     
  • Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, 2008. Trailer.
    2:11
    Trailer for Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours (2008).
  • Documentary on The Situationist International 1956-1972, 3 of 3
    ICA Boston
    5:38, 1989
    On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, is a documentary blending exhibition footage and interviews as a means of identifying and exploring the international movement.
  • Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, 1966. (Film from 1978)
    9:56
    Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, 1966, danced in 1978.
  • A conversation with Carolee Schneemann
    Brooklyn Museum
    6:41, 2008
    Carolee Schneemann speaks about her contribution to “Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection” at the Brooklyn Museum.
  • The ABC's of DADA, 2 of 3
    9:13
    This video highlights the main contributors of the movement.
  • Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Bilbao
    VernissageTV
    9:42, 2008
    Footage of “Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe,” at the Guggenheim Bilbao, March 2008. The exhibition was the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang and the first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist.
  • Valerie Hegarty speaks about Fallen Bierstadt
    Brooklyn Museum
    2:58, 2007
    Hegarty talks about her 2007 work at the Brooklyn Museum.
  • Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920. (Full Version)
    51:01
    This is the full US video version of Robert Wiene's 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
  • Banksy, The Punking of Paris Hilton, 2006
    UbuWeb
    3:22, 2006
    Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by “guerrilla artist” Banksy.
  • “The Culture Show” discusses Banksy
    The Culture Show
    8:53, 2006
    The British television show covers the illusive, infamous street artist named Banksy.
  • Hans Richter, Rhythmus 21, 1921
    1921; 3:22
    An early, abstract animation by Richter composed solely of squares and rectangles that change shape. This another attempt by the artist to apply musical principles to screen images.
  • Lawrence Rinder discusses Art Life: Selected Writing 1991–2005
    Fora TV
    7:39, 2006
    Art Life brings together, for the first time in a single publication, many of the essays on contemporary art written over the past fifteen years by Lawrence Rinder, former curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum.
  • Janet Biggs, Vanishing Point, 2009 (excerpt)
    1:05, 2009
    Vanishing Point is a twelve-minute video created by artist Janet Biggs. For more information, click here.
  • Shohei Imamura, Intentions of Murder, 1964. (Trailer)
    4:04
    Shohei Imamura, Intentions of Murder, 1964. (Trailer)
  • A conversation with Hernan Bas
    Brooklyn Museum
    9:28, 2009
    Hernan Bas speaks with Brooklyn Museum deputy director Charles Desmarais.
  • YouTube Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall – Act One (April 15, 2009)
    59:31
    “The world‘s first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. Selected by the YouTube community and several members of the world’s most renowned orchestras, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made up of over 96 professional and amateur musicians from thirty-plus countries and territories on six continents and represents twenty-six different instruments.”
  • Tony Oursler, Caricature, 2002
    0:42, 2002
    Performance by Constance DeJong. This work was exhibited at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall in 2002 as part of Oursler's solo exhibition.
  • Jackson Pollock in East Hampton, 1951
    Hans Namuth
    3:52, 1951
    A documentary by Hans Namuth, German-born photographer, capturing Jackson Pollack dressed head to toe in black, a cigarette hanging from his lip, dripping painting onto glass.
  • Robert Ashley documentary, 1983
    UbuWeb
    9:11, 1983
    Documentary about composer Robert Ashley is based on a series of live performances of Perfect Lives.
  • Cynthia Hopkins discusses The Success of Failure (or The Failure of Success)
    4:36, 2009
    In this video, Cynthia Hopkins talks about her new multi-media music-theater piece The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success).
  • “Focus: Sol LeWitt” at MoMA
    The Museum of Modern Art
    2:26, 2008
    Documentation of the installation of the exhibition “Focus: Sol LeWitt” at MoMA from 2008.
  • Cyprien Gaillard and Koudlam performance
    8:32
    Video of a 2007 performance with Cyprien Gaillard and the musician Koudlam for Super 2.
     
    For Michael Wang's Scene & Herd coverage of “Younger than Jesus” at the New Museum, which featured a performance by Gaillard and Koudlam, click here.
  • Interview with Captain Beefheart
    8:29, 1982
    Captain Beefheart is a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman.
  • Ray Lee, Siren, 2007
    1:59, 2007
    Artist Ray Lee creates spinning, whirling, and pendulous sound installations and performances that explore the invisible forces that surround us.
  • Dokugyunyu, Stop motion with wolf and pig, 2009
    dokugyunyu
    3:55, 2009
    In this video 1,300 printed pictures are used for stop motion animation.
  • Eames Lounge Chair debut in on NBC 2/2, 1956
    6:56, 1956
    Charles and Ray Eames show their new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis “Home” show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956.
  • Robin Rhode at the Wexner Center
    4:40
    A view of Robin Rhode's first US solo museum exhibition at the Wexner Center, on view April 2–July 26, 2009.
  • Documentary on The Situationist International 1956-1972, 2 of 3
    ICA Boston
    8:33, 1989
    On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, is a documentary blending exhibition footage and interviews as a means of identifying and exploring the international movement.
  • Sarah Michelson, Shadowmann: Part 2, 2003. (Excerpt)
    9:59
    An excerpt from near the end of Sarah Michelson's Shadowmann: Part 2, performed at P.S. 122 in New York in April 2003.
  • Interview with Matthew Barney, 2007
    39:21, 2007
    This video was creating for the preparation of Barney's exhibition of The Cremaster Cycle at the Astrup Fearney Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
  • Peter Campus, Three Transitions, 1970
    4:57, 1970
    For this seminal work, the video artist Peter Campus used early chroma-key processors and video mixers.
  • John Kelly sings Joni Mitchell's “Blue”
    3:26
    Performance artist John Kelly sings Joni Mitchell's “Blue.”
  • Willie Doherty, Non-Specific Threat, 2005
    artintelligence
    3:00, 2005
    Willie Doherty’s Non-Specific Threat, is a simple and powerful single channel, video projection. For more information, click here.
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