Movies (fiction) by Category

A.B.C Africa 2005

Abbas Kiarostami, Marin Karmitz, Seifollah Samadian, MK2 Productions, New Yorker Films, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda in 2001, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans. An alternately heartbreaking and optimistic view of the results of the AIDS epidemic and civil war. 1 videodisc (139 min.)

MEDIA 10-1021

 

The beaches of Agnes c2010

Agnčs Varda and Cinema Guild

Provides a reflection on art, life, and the movies through a rich cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of Agnes Varda's husband, Jacques Demy, and the birth of the French New Wave. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2541

 

Chaos 2000

Preston Maigetter, Eileen O'Meara, David Birdsell, George Lucas, Peter Sollett, Ferenc Rófusz, Tahsin Özgür, Sienna McLean, Andrew Busti, Sebastian Castillo, Paul Bonner, Greg Pak, Gav Barbey, QuickBand Networks (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

"Chaos [Maigetter]: Skateboarding footage. Chaos [O'Meara]: A hand-drawn ride through space, scale and chaos theory. Chaos [Birdsell]: A brief film about bad animals. THX 1138:4EB : electronic labyrinth: Portrays a futurisatic world in which a man races for freedom while being tracked by elaborate surveillance systems. Five feet high and rising: Using non-professional actors, this New York-based film takes a cinema verité-inspired look at sexual innocence. A légy: Chronicles the journey of a common housefly. Kebabaluba: Anything can happen at a Turkish doner kebab stand. Still revolutionaries: Takes a very personal look at the lives of two women in the Black Panther Party. Deleriouspink: An experiment with Xerox machine animation. The bottomless cup: A young man takes a break from his road trip for a jolt of caffeine only to find he's stumbled into a diner where a bottomless cup of coffee takes on a new meaning. Po mo knock knock: Who says experimental films can't have a sense of humor? Burnout: A dilapidated Australian truck stop diner is the setting for a whisky-voiced rumination on life and love."--Container. 1 videodisc (140 min.)

MEDIA 10-605

 

Chelovek s kino-apparatom zapis £ na plenke v 6-i rolikakh (Otryvok iz dnevnika kino-operatora) = The man with the movie camera c1998, 1929

An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, stop-action animation, etc.) to present a dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union and to study the relationship between cinema and reality. 1 videodisc (68 min.)

MEDIA 10-4677

 

The Curtis Harrington short film collection c2013

A collection of Curtis Harrington shorts that he wrote, directed, and occasionally starred in. The films are generally silent, strange, moody, and metaphorical. Fragment of seeking: Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality. Picnic: Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off. Harrington himself described the film thus: "A satirical comment on middle-class life frames a dream-like continuity in which the protagonist pursues an illusory object of desire.". On the edge: In this poetic fantasy, set against a dark industrial landscape, Harrington casts his own mother and father in the lead roles. The Assignation: Long considered lost, this was Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and not unlike Fragment of seeking, follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax. The Wormwood Star: A film study of the artwork of famed painter Majorie Cameron. Usher: Director's final film, Usher is a remake of the original film made by Harrington when was in high school, and based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story "The fall of the house of Usher." . 2 videodiscs (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-5081

 

Del éxtasis al arrebato un recorrido por el cine experimental espańol = From ecstasy to rapture : a journey through Spanish experimental cinema c2009

José Val del Omar, Ton Sirera, Joaquim Puigvert, Carles Santos, Carles Durán, Antoni Padrós, Javier Aguirre, Luis Rivera, José Angel Rebolledo, Marcel Pey, Eugeni Bonet, Iván Zulueta, Jordi Artigas, Manuel Huerga, Eugčnia Balcells, Juan Bufill, Antoni Miralda, Benet Rossell, José Antonio Sistiaga Mosso, David Reznak, David Domingo, Antoni Pinent, César Velasco Broca, Laida Lertxundi, Oriol Sánchez, Equipo/57, Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (Spain), and Cameo Media

31 experimental short films made in Spain 1957-2005. 2 videodiscs (225 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2434

 

Early works c2006

Doug Back, Robert Beck, Joan Jonas, Tony Oursler, Guoqiang Cai, and Aspect Magazine (Firm)

This video shows the impact ground-breaking artists have had on the creative practice of artists of all media worldwide, new media in particular. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1449

 

The family album 2009

Utilizing a vast collection of home movies found at flea markets and yard sales, as well as oral histories and family recordings from the 1920s to the 1950s, the filmmaker weaves together a remarkable and emotionally electrifying portrait of the changing face of the American family. These authentic artifacts of American history and culture are edited together to illustrate the entire cycle of life from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood, to provide a moving experience of the universal drama of family life during the first half of the twentieth century. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-4694

 

Hybride c2007

Johanna Vaude and Lowave (Firm)

A selection of experimental films by Johanna Vaude, each with its own subject and type of technique. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-1469

 

I thought I was seeing convicts 2000

Harun Farocki, Cathy Lee Crane, Art Institute of Chicago, Video Data Bank, and Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

An inquiry into means of surveillance cameras and control, with sometimes lethal results, at a maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. 1 videodisc (25 min.)

MEDIA 10-2107

 

Limite 2013

Limite is a surrealistic work dealing with the conflicts raised by the human condition and the ways in which life conspires to prevent total fulfillment.  It is considered a landmark film in Brazilian cinema history. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-5180

 

Marina Abramovi c the artist is present c2012

"Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic has been redefining art for nearly forty years. Using her body as a vehicle, she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. This is a mesmerizing journey into the world of radical performance and an intimate portrait of an astonishingly magnetic, endlessly intriguing woman who draws no distinction between life and art."--Container. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-3911

 

Martina's playhouse 2007, 1986

"In Martina's Playhouse, everything is up for grabs. The little girl of the title oscillates from narrator to reader to performer and from the role of baby to that of mother. While the roles she adopts may be learned, they are not set, and she moves easily between them. Similarly, in filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh's playhouse of encounters with friends, objects aren't merely objects but shift between layers of meaning. Men are conspicuously absent, a lack reversing of the Lacanian/Freudian constructions of women as Ahwesh plays with other possibilities." --Kathy Geritz, program notes (Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive, 1990). 1 videocassette (20 min.) :

MEDIA 10-7921

 

Miranda July videoworks: Volume One 2001?

Miranda July, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

Atlanta: Interview of a 12-year-old olympic swimmer and her mother during the athlete's preparation for the 1996 summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. The amateurist: A video about surveillance, identity, watching and being watched. Nest of tens: Depicts children and adults in unusual scenarios, linked by a lecturer enumerating. Getting stronger everyday: An abstract representation of two boys who have been abducted and then returned to their families and their inability to reintegrate into those families. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-862

 

Mysterious object at noon c2003

Somsri Pinyopol, Kannikar Narong, Chakree Duangklao, To Hanudomlap, Duangjai Hiransri, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mlngmongkol Sonakul, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hubert Bals Fund, 9/6 Cinema (Firm), Firecracker Film Co., Ltd, and Plexifilm (Firm)

Part documentary part experimental narrative, this film occupies a genre all it's own. A portrait of Thailand's disefranchised lower classes emerges through interviews in which participants are asked to contribute to the films' evolving story. Their resulting collective story is about a handicapped boy and his tutor, a mysterious woman named Dogfahr. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-1762

 

Night cries a rural tragedy 1990

Tracey Moffatt, Penny McDonald, Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, James Richard Little, Australian Film Commission, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

A fictional story in which a middle aged Aboriginal woman resents the responsibility of caring for her old white mother. Her memories and dreams invade her routine until the old woman dies and we share the daughter's sense of loss. Filmed entirely in a studio, with vibrantly colored sets and sound. 1 videodisc (17 min.)

MEDIA 10-1167

 

Nomads and no-zones 2005

Ray Halliday, Aaron Comethus, Vanessa Renwick, Greta Snider, and Other Cinema (Firm)

From two of the West's bravest filmmakers comes some short films that are gritty, romantic, frank, and poetic. The short films criss-cross genres from documentary to experimental to personal narrative often in the same movie. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-915

 

Now let us praise American leftists c2000

Paul Chan, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

Now Let Us Praise American Leftists is an experimental video animation that seeks to eulogize and ridicule the American leftist movement of the past century. Foregrounding the exclusionary nature of American leftist politics, and its persistent refusal to allow more diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to enter into the larger political daialogue, the video presents representations of American leftists as they are: men with mustaches. Over sixty leftist groups in the history of American leftist politics are represented with different types of mustaches, created using FACES, a computer application used by North American law enforcement agencies to create composite pictures of criminals and suspects for wanted posters. 1 videodisc (216 min.)

MEDIA 10-2065

 

Point of view an anthology of the moving image c2003

Dan Cameron, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Richard Meyer, Francis Aleys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Bink Productions, and New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)

Features eleven of the most important artists worldwide working in film, video, and digital imagery today. Each DVD features the artist's newly commissioned project; an in-depth interview with the artist; an image library of the artist's previous work; and biographical material. 11 videodiscs (ca. 67 min.)

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The qatsi trilogy 2012

36 p

MEDIA 10-4705

 

Quintessence five short films 1999

Barry J Hershey, Jennifer Green, Peggy Hickey, Harold Budd, Phil Pelletier, and Nawang Khechog

"A quintet of richly poetic shorts by film artist Barry J. Hershey exploring the intersections of form and substance, appearance and reality, in art and life".--Container. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-147

 

Rumstick Road "The Wooster Group's 1977 production Rumstick Road has been recognized by critics and scholars as a landmark work that helped usher in a new era of experimental performance. Composed by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte in response to the suicide of Gray's mother, Rumstick Road combines Gray's personal recorded conversations, family letters, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, 35mm slides, music, and dance. The video reconstruction presented in this DVD keeps faith with the theater piece by registering, in a new composite, the vivid texture of time and memory that shaped the original production. LeCompte and filmmaker Ken Kobland have worked with Wooster Group archivist Clay Hapaz to layer, juxtapose, and blend together numerous archival fragments -- including U-Matic video, Super 8 film, reel-to-reel audio tapes, photographs, and slides -- in order to reconstruct that lost performance."--Wooster Group website. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-5561

 

So help me Hannah 2012?

Hannah Wilke

A nude Hannah Wilke holds her body in different positions while holding a gun in her hand. This is done against a blank wall and on the floor. 1 videodisc (38 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3797

 

Surveying the first decade video art and alternative media in the U.S c2008

"A comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video in the U.S. between 1968 and 1980"--Program notes. 8 videodiscs (ca. 985 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 10-4067 CD-ROM 10-4067 program 1 10-4067 program 2 10-4067 program 3 10-4067 program 4 10-4067 program 5 10-4067 program 6 10-4067 program 7 10-4067 program 8

 

Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould 1995

François Girard, Don McKellar, Colm Feore, Niv Fichman, and Glenn Gould

Biographical film about the renowned but eccentric Canadian pianist. 1 videocassette (94 min.)

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Urinal 2012?

"This comprehensive retrospective includes four features and thirty-seven shorts by Greyson. Urinal, an experimental documentary/drama featuring the closeted characters of Eisenstein, Kahlo and Mishima who are recruited to fight back against the police persecution of gay public sex in Ontario. His films established him as a leading figure in the loosely defined New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s. His many shorts, addressing such diverse topics as gay penguins, censorship, gender conformity, solidarity with Palestinian queers, gay rights in Bosnia, and the American bombing of the Iraqi Film Archives, have been shown in festivals internationally. Throughout his extensive body of work that ranges from hybrid documentary and historical fiction to filmed operas and experimental video art, Greyson employs digitized Brechtian techniques and camp humour as instruments of cultural and political activism. His work engages audiences passionately and critically, occupying diverse cinematic genres (the essay, the song, the viral video) and distinctive formal devices (multiple layers of subtitles, split-screen, voice and anachronism) to wittily contest dominant discourses of sexuality, gender and power. These deft, challenging works tell outsider stories that trouble history and skewer complacency, joining a growing debate about the role of queer activism in today   s social justice struggles."--Pieced together from information found on Vtape. 2 videodiscs (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-4739 v. 1

 

The videoworks of Mindy Faber: Volume 1 1995

Mindy Faber, Patricia Jane Faber, Kendra Scheuerlein, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

The artist reflects on her mother's mental illness in light of women's roles in society, the effect of mental illness on the family, identity, and the relationship between mothers and daughters. 1 videodisc (ca. 33 min.)

MEDIA 10-1476

 

The videoworks of Mindy Faber, volume I 2009

Mindy Faber

The artist reflects on her mother's mental illness in light of women's roles in society, the effect of mental illness on the family, identity, and the relationship between mothers and daughters. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

MEDIA 10-1476

 

The 90's Vol. 1 1990

Joel Cohen

Examines social issues of the 90's. "People, places and ideas from around the world... fast-paced, entertaining, irreverent, funny and thought-provoking reports from the creative edge of the video age"--Container
Opening montage -- Flying morning glory / Skip Blumberg -- Pat Boone and Harold Bredesen / Nancy Cain -- All your affections gone / Dion Payton -- Rock and roll controversy -- Albert -- Kim Long / Jimmy Sternfield -- The original TV -- Revolutionary video / Chuch Olin -- Lyndon Johnson and video from Everyone's channel / David Shulman -- Nixon registration -- Uncle Sam falls / Bill Stamets -- Ike for President -- Paid political message / Bill Tunnicliffe -- Advice ladies / Skip Blumberg -- On our own land / Appalshop -- Your tape here / Deedee Halleck -- Hare Krishna festival / Nancy Cain -- Red M&Ms / Bianca Miller -- Todd Alcott / Skip Blumberg -- Nana Asua Gyebi festival / Skip Blumberg -- Guns and women / Ricki Katz -- Wagon ho / Raunchy Bob Yup Yup -- Marlboro commercial -- Death in the West -- Love on $14 / Jim McCarthy and Steve Martini -- Laughing alligator / Juan Downey -- Prison PSA / Gary Glassman -- Crack fish / Byte By Byte -- Percy Mayfield / Michael Prussian and Starr Sutherland -- John Parker / Skip Blumberg -- Ain't gonna pee in the cup / Bianca Miller -- The real realness... / Scott Jacobs -- Richie Havens / Skip Blumberg -- Fontanos / Image Union -- Galaxy sweetheart / Daniel Thalmann -- Fish peace / Jim Jenkin -- Greater Yellowstone news / Phil Morton -- More than a game / Wild Onion Pictures -- Yuppie rap / Bill O'Neill -- Sid and Irv / Bart Lipton and Phil Patemite -- Erika Becker / Eddie Becker. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1603

 

After the revolution 1988-1989 2000

Andras Szirtes

In this experimental, tongue-in-cheek feature made in the wake of the cataclysmic political changes of Hungary, the "hero" is a writer, who has shut himself off from the rest of the world. He is struggling to write a great novel. Every morning he sits down to write after feeding his cat and letting it out into the streets. The point-of-view of the film is that of the cat as perceived through the its eyes, ears and brain. As the writer reviews the material "shot" by the cat it becomes the basis of his novel. 1 videocassette (82 min.)

DANA 1581

 

All the parts from Simon and Garfunkel's 1984 Central Park performance where Garfunkel sings with his hands in his pockets 2004

Cory Arcangel, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Simon and Garfunkel, Beige (Musical group), and Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization)

Arcangel brings a willfully lo-fi aesthetic to bear in manipulating a consumer video document of a twenty-year-old Simon and Garfunkel concert. 1 videocassette (ca. 7 min.)

MEDIA 2-7737

 

Approaching narrative "there are problems to be solved" 1996, 1995

Kate Horsfield

Three works use inventive formal armatures to stage epic stories through unpredictable performances. 1 videocassette (117 min.)

MEDIA 2-3672

 

Art and jazz in animation The cosmic eye 1999, 1995

Faith Hubley, John Hubley, Dizzy Gillespie , Maureen Stapleton, Linda Atkinson, Jack Warden, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, and Lionel Hampton

Animated films featuring jazz musicians made by Faith & John Hubley. 1 videodisc (245 min.)

DANA 26

 

The attendant c1993

Isaac Julien, Mark Nash, Thomas Baptiste, Cleo Sylvestre, John Wilson, Channel Four (Great Britain), Normal Films, and Frameline (Firm)

A homoerotic fantasy that takes place in an art museum. 1 videocassette (8 min.)

MEDIA 2-7328

 

A.B.C Africa 2005

Abbas Kiarostami, Marin Karmitz, Seifollah Samadian, MK2 Productions, New Yorker Films, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda in 2001, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans. An alternately heartbreaking and optimistic view of the results of the AIDS epidemic and civil war. 1 videodisc (139 min.)

MEDIA 10-1021

 

Beach Boys Geto Boys 2004

Cory Arcangel, Beach Boys, Geto Boys (Musical group), Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization), and Beige (Musical group)

Arcangel explores the "mash-up," in which music fans digitally merge two songs to create unexpected hybrids. Original live performance footage of the Beach Boys with a contemporary music video by the rap group Geto Boys. 1 videocassette (ca. 4 min.)

MEDIA 2-7738

 

Best of performance art I 1994

Pat Oleszko

"In the Best of performance art I, you'll discover the totally unpredictable, absolutely amazing, inside-out world of Pat Oleszko, New York City's famous performance artist."--Container. 1 videocassette (76 min.)

MEDIA 2-3771

 

A bitter message of hopeless grief 1990

Jon Reiss, Mark Pauline, Matthew Heckert, and Eric Werner

Performance of mechanized beasts made of machinery and animal parts. Violent images complete with explosions, industrial noises, and machines destroying each other. 1 videocassette (31 min.)

MEDIA 2-2909

 

Blutclip 1993

Pipilotti Rist, Dig-It Audio, and Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization)

This video clip, performed by Pipliotti Rist, is a celebration of the female body and its reproductive function. 1 videocassette (ca. 3 min.)

MEDIA 2-7742

 

Border brujo 1990

Guillermo Gómez-Peńa and Isaac Artenstein

By means of magical incantations performed at an altar, shows that language, in English or Spanish, is the border. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1742

 

Cartoon noir 2000?

Paul Vester, Julie Zammarchi, Jirí Bárta, Piotr Dumala, Suzan Pitt, and First-Run Features (Firm)

Dramatic animated shorts from around the world. 1 videocassette (ca. 83 min.)

MEDIA 2-7042

 

Chaos 2000

Preston Maigetter, Eileen O'Meara, David Birdsell, George Lucas, Peter Sollett, Ferenc Rófusz, Tahsin Özgür, Sienna McLean, Andrew Busti, Sebastian Castillo, Paul Bonner, Greg Pak, Gav Barbey, QuickBand Networks (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

"Chaos [Maigetter]: Skateboarding footage. Chaos [O'Meara]: A hand-drawn ride through space, scale and chaos theory. Chaos [Birdsell]: A brief film about bad animals. THX 1138:4EB : electronic labyrinth: Portrays a futurisatic world in which a man races for freedom while being tracked by elaborate surveillance systems. Five feet high and rising: Using non-professional actors, this New York-based film takes a cinema verité-inspired look at sexual innocence. A légy: Chronicles the journey of a common housefly. Kebabaluba: Anything can happen at a Turkish doner kebab stand. Still revolutionaries: Takes a very personal look at the lives of two women in the Black Panther Party. Deleriouspink: An experiment with Xerox machine animation. The bottomless cup: A young man takes a break from his road trip for a jolt of caffeine only to find he's stumbled into a diner where a bottomless cup of coffee takes on a new meaning. Po mo knock knock: Who says experimental films can't have a sense of humor? Burnout: A dilapidated Australian truck stop diner is the setting for a whisky-voiced rumination on life and love."--Container. 1 videodisc (140 min.)

MEDIA 10-605

 

Comment ca va? 1995

Jean Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville 

1 videocassette (78 min.)

DANA 489

 

Computer animation festival 1993

Steven Churchill

1 videocassette (55 min.)

DOUGLASS 162

 

The couple in the cage a Guatinaui odyssey 1993

Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Gautinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico, are contrasted with archival footage and still photographs showing various occasions when indigenous persons were put on public display at circuses, sideshows and the like. Emphasis is placed on the response of the people viewing the Gautinaui couple. 1 videocassette (31 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1750 2-2376

 

Critiques of art and media as commodity and spectacle 1995

Kate Horsfield

Examples of early attempts to use video to document performances or deliver manifestos about art as commodity. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-3676

 

D'Est 1993

Chantal Akerman, Radio télévision portugaise, Paradise Films, Lieurac Productions, Sept/Arte (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

This experimental documentary is a compendium of striking images of Eastern Europe and its citizens in transition, following the collapse of the so-called Cold War. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-7722

 

Dark side of the moon 2004

William Karel, Andrew Solomon, Point du Jour (Firm), ARTE France, and Filmakers Library, inc

Inspired by the revelation of director Stanley Kubrick's close relationship with NASA on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lindon, director invents a scenario for the images of the moon landing, using hijacked archival footage, false documents, and authenic interviews out of context, leading the viewer realize how difficult it is to separate truth from manipulation in the media. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6892

 

De l'autre côté 2002

Chantal Akerman, Audiovisuel Multimedia International Production, CarreŢ Noir (Firm), Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française, and First Run/Icarus Films

In images and interviews, this film examines the plight of poor Mexicans who try to emigrate to the United States illegally with the hope of a better life. U.S. attempts to stem the influx has forced immigrants to take dangerous routes to avoid detection, and many have died. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

MEDIA 2-7720

 

The dead weight of a quarrel hangs a three part project 1999

Walid Ra'ad, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

This lyrical three-part video project investigates the possibilities and limits of writing a history of the Lebanese Civil Wars (1975-1991). 1 videocassette (17 min.)

MEDIA 2-7727

 

Decentralized communications projects 1995

Kate Horsfield

Representative works of the effort to redefine the asymmetrical relationship between production/transmission and reception/consumption in American telecommunications systems. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-3675

 

Early works c2006

Doug Back, Robert Beck, Joan Jonas, Tony Oursler, Guoqiang Cai, and Aspect Magazine (Firm)

This video shows the impact ground-breaking artists have had on the creative practice of artists of all media worldwide, new media in particular. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1449

 

El Naftazteca Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D 1995

Phillip Djwa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Rubén Martínez

Performance art in which Gomez Pena plays the role of high-tech pirate-television veejay. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-2369

 

Explorations of presence, performance, and audience 1996, 1995

Kate Horsfield

Video artists investigate perceptual processes and strategies of performance, using the video monitor as a realtime "feedback" mirror, a time-base device for recording and reflection, and/or an intimately distanced theater. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-3670

 

Faust 1994

Petr Cepek, Jan Svankmajer, Jaromir Kallista, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Christopher Marlowe

A modern day production of Faust based on the Faust plays.  Uses animation and animated figures and puppets. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA 2-2575

 

The films of Jane Campion 1995?

Jane Campion

Three short films from director Jane Campion.  Peel concerns a family outing in Australia which results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence.  Passionless moments is a series of ten short, whimsical films portraying the inner world of ordinary people.  A girl's own story concerns girlhood, Beatlemania, and growing up in the sixties. 1 videocassette (49 min.)

MEDIA 2-3188

 

Le fond de l'air est rouge A grin without a cat 2002

Chris Marker, First Run/Icarus Films, Lucia Films (Firm), and Iskra Films (Firm)

Chris Marker's epic film essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. This sweeping, global contemplation of a defining decade's political history is divided into two parts, each part woven together to describe what Marker has called "scenes of the Third World War.". 1 videocassette (180 min.)

MEDIA 2-6888

 

Food 1993, 1992

Jan Svankmajer and Jaromir Kallista

In a series of vignettes, Svankmajer animates grey-suited men as human vending machines, shows a pair of men at dinner devouring the contents of a restaurant, and takes us on a tour of a cannibalistic banquet. 1 videocassette (14 min.)

MEDIA 2-2576

 

Fresh looks anti-racist film & videos 1993

Richard Fung, Alanis Obomsawin, Andrew Davis, Keith Lock,  Helen Lee, Donna James, Peter Karuna, Jeneva Shaw, Vrajesh Hanspal, Zachary Longboy, Edward Lam, Julia Browne Figuéréo, Luís Garcia, Marie Boti, Luis Osvaldo Garcia, Allen Cheng, Nadine K Rowe, and Sook-Yin Lee

A compilation of short films that deal with the issues of race and representation.  Issues range from immigration history, self-image, Canadian folklore, native aspects and racism. 3 videocassettes (327 min.)

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Gendered confrontations 1996

Kate Horsfield

Women use video to examine the lives of parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends to question their own relationship to what had been understood as history. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-3673

 

Gently down the stream 1992, 1981

Su Friedrich

Uses material from a succession of dreams to exorcise the mysterious ritualistic poer of repeating images. 1 videocassette (14 min.)

MEDIA 2-3189

 

God's trombones a trilogy of African-American poems 1994

James Weldon Johnson, James Earl Jones, and Dorian Harewood

Features three inspirational sermons of the old-time black preachers taken from James Weldon Johnson's book of poetry titled: God's trombones. 1 videocassette (25 min., 45 sec.)

DANA 1843

 

The great mojado invasion (the 2nd US-Mexican War) 2001

Gustavo Vasquez and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Combination of Chicano wit and political vision create an ironic, post-millenial and postmodern look at the future of the Mexican-American living in the United States. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-2370

 

Hybride c2007

Johanna Vaude and Lowave (Firm)

A selection of experimental films by Johanna Vaude, each with its own subject and type of technique. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-1469

 

Independents address television 1995

Kate Horsfield

Illustrates how early documentary producers worked to establish relationships with broadcast television that would deliver their independently conceived and produced television to large broadcast audiences. 2 videocassettes (178 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3677 2-3678

 

Information withheld ; Shifters 1993?

Juan Downey

Information witheld dramatizes the nature of signs and symbols in an ascending order of complexity, from traffic signals and hieroglyphs to Michelangelo's painting of The Madonna and child with St. Joseph.  Shifters dismantles the narrative mode and distinguishes six recurrent themes, including Egypt, Napoleon, the scholars, the abuse of a cat and a melodrama.  The subtext of this videotape concerns the oppositions of imperial power and the working class suggested through architecture emblematic of them. 1 videocassette (56 min.)sd., col. ;

DANA 418

 

Interview & reading, Jonas Mekas with segments from the films of Mekas 1991

Mitch Corber and Barbara Julian Deane

In interviews intercut with segments of his films, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas discusses his work in film and also the founding of Anthology Film Archives. 1 videocassette (50 min)

DANA 1849

 

Investigations of the phenomenal world space, sound, and light 1995

Kate Horsfield

Short film clips demonstrate the artists' attempts to extend structural and process-oriented investigations of space, sound and light in the video medium. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-3671

 

Jane Comfort 1998

Charles Dennis, Jane Comfort, Cynthia Bueschel, Aleta Hayes, Stephanie McKay, and Stephen Nunley

An excerpt from Jane Comfort's performance piece Underground River. Also features an interview with her about the premise of the work, which are the visions a girl in a coma. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

DOUGLASS 230

 

 

Leonard Maltin's animation favorites from the National Film Board of Canada 1994

Leonard Maltin, Sally Roy, Kris Slava, Mary Jane Terrell, Norman McLaren, Jacques Drouin, John Weldon, Cordell Barker, Richard Condie, Sheldon Cohen, Caroline Leaf, Marc Aubry, and Michel Hébert

A selection of some of the finest Canadian animated films produced over the past 50 years from the library of the National Film Board of Canada. 1 videocassette (95 min.)

MEDIA 2-6254

 

Lions love 1996?

Viva, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Agnès Varda

Ragni, Rado and Viva play themselves, waiting for their big Hollywood break and casually drifting into a ménage a  trois. Varda captures the quirky, laid back lifestyle of 1960's Los Angeles as her characters revel in a cool, hang-loose existence. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-2835

 

Love 2003

Tracey Moffatt, Gary Hillberg, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Clips, from chaste black-and-white Hollywood classics to more full-flooded fare from the '60s and '70s, showing women's love, lust, longing and revenge. 1 videocassette (21 min.)

MEDIA 2-7812

 

Love lion 1999?

Sheldon Rochlin, Maxine Harris, Michael McClure, Ray Manzarek, Mystic Fire Video, Inc, Island Visual Arts (Firm), and Fox Lorber Associates

Michael McClure, a poet and playwright from San Francisco, and Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors, join forces for a performance of McClure's poetry, read with the collaboration of Manzarek's improvisations on the piano. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

   (set)  DANA 1918

 

Low level all-stars 2003

RSG (Group) and Beige (Musical group)

Selection of cracker graffiti, modified start-up screens created by hackers, created on Commodore 64 computers in the 1980's. 1 videocassette (ca. 22 min.)

MEDIA 2-7739

 

Lumiére et compagnie Lumiére & Company 1996, 1995

Sarah Moon, Martine Grenier, Laurence Miller, Gabriel Axel, Thodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, Merzak Allouache, John Boorman, José Juan Bigas Luna, Yusuf Shahin, Alain Corneau, Costa Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Michael Haneke, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Idrissa Ouedraogo, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, David Lynch, Patrice Leconte, Louis Lumière, Claude Lelouch, Claude Miller, Lucian Pintilie, Arthur Penn, Jacques Rivette, Jerry Schatzberg, Spike Lee, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Fernando Trueba, Nadine Trintignant, Liv Ullmann, Jaco van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yimou Zhang, and Kiju Yoshida

To commemorate the Centennial of the Lumiere Brothers' first motion picture, 40 of the world's leading international filmmakers created their own one minute Lumiere film. Using the restored original camera, each director offered his own signature style to the film. These exciting eclectic shorts are combined with intriguing interviews with the filmmakers. 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.)

MEDIA 2-3478

 

Man Ray films 1998

Man Ray

"This videocassette includes the four films which established Man Ray as a major figure of the 1920s avant-garde cinema...as well as eleven [sic] short 'autobiographical' films"--Container. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

DANA 1471

 

Meredith Monk composer, singer, dancer, film-maker, choreographer, performance artist 1991

Peter Greenaway, Revel Guest, and Meredith Monk

"Meredith Monk is an artist of many media. In her exploration of the human voice, she has transcended the boundaries of vocal song. She is also her own composer, choreographer and film-maker, blending all these into a unique style and content of performance which suggests scurrying creatures in primeval landscapes. Here, with her vocal group, she performs Dolman Music, Travelling, Quarry, Ellis Island and Turtle Dreams."--Container. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

DOUGLASS 217

 

Miranda July videoworks: Volume One 2001?

Miranda July, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

Atlanta: Interview of a 12-year-old olympic swimmer and her mother during the athlete's preparation for the 1996 summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. The amateurist: A video about surveillance, identity, watching and being watched. Nest of tens: Depicts children and adults in unusual scenarios, linked by a lecturer enumerating. Getting stronger everyday: An abstract representation of two boys who have been abducted and then returned to their families and their inability to reintegrate into those families. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-862

 

/music/consciousness/gender 1996

Benjamin Boretz, Noel Bush, and Mary Lee Roberts

"This event desires to create a space inviting shared contemplation of such person-centered matters as the ontologies of consciousness transformation, and of the evolving introconstruction of gender identity, as refracted through the lenses of music-perceptual and music-expressive phenomena, and in particular in the perspective of one person's insular cognitive history"--Container. 1 videocassette (89 min.)

MUSIC 295

 

Mysterious object at noon c2003

Somsri Pinyopol, Kannikar Narong, Chakree Duangklao, To Hanudomlap, Duangjai Hiransri, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mlngmongkol Sonakul, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hubert Bals Fund, 9/6 Cinema (Firm), Firecracker Film Co., Ltd, and Plexifilm (Firm)

Part documentary part experimental narrative, this film occupies a genre all it's own. A portrait of Thailand's disefranchised lower classes emerges through interviews in which participants are asked to contribute to the films' evolving story. Their resulting collective story is about a handicapped boy and his tutor, a mysterious woman named Dogfahr. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-1762

 

Night cries a rural tragedy 1990

Tracey Moffatt, Penny McDonald, Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, James Richard Little, Australian Film Commission, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

A fictional story in which a middle aged Aboriginal woman resents the responsibility of caring for her old white mother. Her memories and dreams invade her routine until the old woman dies and we share the daughter's sense of loss. Filmed entirely in a studio, with vibrantly colored sets and sound. 1 videodisc (17 min.)

MEDIA 10-1167

 

Nomads and no-zones 2005

Ray Halliday, Aaron Comethus, Vanessa Renwick, Greta Snider, and Other Cinema (Firm)

From two of the West's bravest filmmakers comes some short films that are gritty, romantic, frank, and poetic. The short films criss-cross genres from documentary to experimental to personal narrative often in the same movie. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-915

 

Numero deux Aumero deux = Number two 1995

Jean Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Sandrine Baltistella, Pierre Oudry, Alexandre Rignault, and Rachel Stefanopol

Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

DANA 488

 

Performance of video imaging tools 1995

Kate Horsfield

Examples of the artists' inquiries into the development and application of analog and eventually digital tools that translated energy and time into video imaging systems. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-3674

 

Pickelporno 1992

Pipilotti Rist and Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization)

In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual attention to the syntax of mass media. 1 videocassette (ca. 12 min.)

MEDIA 2-7741

 

The Pleasures of uninhibited excess three machine performances by Survival Research Laboratories, 1989-1990 1991

Leslie Asako Gladsjo, Jon Reiss, and Mark Pauline

Three mechanized presentations, each consisting of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices with humans present only as audience or operators. 1 videocassette (46 min.)

MEDIA 2-2910

 

Praise house 1991

Julie Dash, Gina Harrell, Angelyn DeBord, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Laurie Carlos, Viola Sheely, Terri Cousar, Ayodele Martin Aubert, and  Carl Riley

The visual images presented in this film illustrate "spirituality and the gift of artistry in three generations of African-American women"--Prologue. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5068

 

Quintessence five short films 1999

Barry J Hershey, Jennifer Green, Peggy Hickey, Harold Budd, Phil Pelletier, and Nawang Khechog

"A quintet of richly poetic shorts by film artist Barry J. Hershey exploring the intersections of form and substance, appearance and reality, in art and life".--Container. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-147

 

Rare Dutch and Belgian experimental program 1996

Video demonstrates early documentary films from the Netherlands. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6164

 

Seven years of living art a seven year performance by Linda Montano, 1984-1991 c1994

Maida Barbour, Art Institute of Chicago, Video Data Bank, University of Texas at Austin, and Dept. of Radio-Television-Film

Artist Linda Montano demonstrates how she lived "art life" for seven years by incorporating sounds, colors, and philosophies in her daily living. 1 videocassette (ca. 14 min.)

MEDIA 2-7184

 

Shadows of forgotten ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv 1994

Sergei Paradzhanov, Mykhailo Kotsiubyns kyi, Ivan Chendei, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnikova, and T Bestaieva

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

DANA 540

 

Shirin Neshat the woman moves c2004

Shirin Neshat, Jörg Jung, Ralf Raimo Jung, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experiences. 1 videodisc (42 min.)

DANA 254

 

Sink or swim 1990

Su Friedrich

A compelling account of the immutable, highly charged relationship between a father and daughter.  A young girl narrates twenty-six short stories which recount memories of a father she both fears and admires. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-3198

 

Sud 2003?

Chantal Akerman, Audiovisuel Multimedia International Production, Paradise Films, CHEMAH I.S, and First Run/Icarus Films

Akerman traveled to the American South to make a film inspired by authors William Faulkner and James Baldwin, but she transformed her project after the horrific racist crime against James Byrd, Jr. was committed during her stay. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-7721

 

Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould 1995

François Girard, Don McKellar, Colm Feore, Niv Fichman, and Glenn Gould

Biographical film about the renowned but eccentric Canadian pianist. 1 videocassette (94 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1683      2-2623         10-186

 

Tribulation 99 alien anomalies under America s.n.,c1992?

C. G Baldwin and Sean Kilkoyne

Every disaster, man-made or natural, every assassination, and every period of political turmoil, past, present and future, is attributed to the work of aliens living beneath the earth's crust. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-3930

 

Unfinished 2005

Sophie Calle, Fabio Balducci, and Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization)

The artist explores issues of money and value, the artistic process, and failure in a 15-year project that centers around images taken from surveillance cameras at automatic teller machines. 1 videocassette (ca. 31 min.)

MEDIA 2-7761

 

Untitled: Part 2: Beauty and the east c2003

Jayce Salloum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

"This videotape addresses issues of nationalism and the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal and construction of political identities, ethno-facism, the body as object and metaphor, agents, monsters and abjectness, subjective affinities.". 1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-6649

 

The videoworks of Mindy Faber: Volume 1 1995

Mindy Faber, Patricia Jane Faber, Kendra Scheuerlein, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank

The artist reflects on her mother's mental illness in light of women's roles in society, the effect of mental illness on the family, identity, and the relationship between mothers and daughters. 1 videodisc (ca. 33 min.)

MEDIA 10-1476

 

Volumen c1998

Björk, One Little Indian Ltd, and Elektra Entertainment (Firm)

Collection of music videos by the European artist. 1 videocassette (64 min.)

DANA 2046

 

Wild gunman 1998?

C. G Baldwin

Wild gunman--From the opening loop of repeated exhortations to "shoot" and continuing through a frentic montage of clips from feature films, commercials, documentaries and newsreels the emphasis is on society's eventual self- destruction. Rocketkitkongokit--Stylistic portrayal of the history of the newly established country of Zaire (Congo Democratic Republic). The narrative follows the rise of dictator Joseph Mobutu, the establishment of the German rocket program and internal rebellions with external influences.  Ends with a fictional climax. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-3931