Whatever hope film and video work have for artistic excellence depends on addressing questions specific to the medium—both visual and spatial. Curator Chrissie Iles brings together nineteen seminal works that first posed such questions in the ’60s and ’70s, including pieces by Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Andy Warhol, Michael Snow, and Yoko Ono. Projected film and video is a hot topic today, its nature and status much contested. Rasters and reception, broadcast and projection, phenomenology and opticality: Theories about this art have been at once raw and pretentious, much like the medium itself. This exhibition should provide the perfect occasion to think it through from scratch.

— Katy Siegel