Art Film & Video
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Irit BATSRY, Stories from the Old Ruin (1988; 20 min.) Eerie, masterfully processed tableaux on memory, personal & ancestral.
Ellin BAUMEL (with Judy MOY), Homage to Artaud (1988; ap. 10 min.)
Stark tableaux of domestic drama (S8 orig.).
Caterina BORELLI, The Date (10 min.) and Glances (13:30 min.) The Date The Medusa theme charges this romantic idyll in a garden of statues. Glances A look at the Bowery and its denizens through a peephole, "life melting among people's feelings, on the edge between reality and fiction."
Bill CRESTON, The Urinals (1972; 12 min.) Video history; a comic scene played out before Creston's 1964 painting of "Urinals" in the Met features Carl Methfessel.
CRITICAL Art Ensemble, (1987-88; 35 min.) Tallahassee, FL-based video performance group of seven lays on the post-modern dog, with a series of short collage-comment pieces: Mirror of Reduction, Misappropriation (after Andy Warhol), Baudrillard's Lasso, Collective Oedipal Revolution, Indefinite Concrete Material, Gift-Wrapped Aporia, Art Film, Mondo Familiae, Limnologic Jargon post-modern, yeah, but all highly watchable juice.
$19.95
DIRECT Art, Shimmelstein (1985, 25 min.) Claymation satire on music biz starring the Jickets. World Music Inc. conspires to defraud the down-home band. Many odd domestic and corporate scenes.
$19.95
Good Lovin' Guitar Man (1984; 3 min.), Heterosexual Love (1984; 4 min.) & Bloody Stump (1983; 12 min.) Music videos of the Jickets, with Chett Grant, Larry Lame. Het is a classic doll animation disco and party scene. Stump is early work by Michael Wolfe, a demented George Pal.
$19.95
Doug EISENSTARK, A True Country (1987; 15 min.) Peruvian mine-owner's story. Fairytale feeling, deals with economic and social realities.
FLEISHMAN Sisters, Brunch (1986, 10 min.) and 28 (1987; 5 min.) This breezy video-animated early morning vignette is light but beautiful. Produced by painter Jill and video artist Carole. 28 is a 'birthday video,' brightly comic romp with piquant edges; b/w. Produced by Carole.
$19.95
Terence GRACE, Marketplace (1985; 4:15) & Rumble (1986; 4:30) These music videos of Details at Eleven use silky Super-8 animations to illustrate the jazzy and urbane songs.
Julie HARRISON & Robert KLEYN The Other Side (1985, 18 min.) and The Realization (1983, 20 min.) Side is shot in wide-open New Mexico, the story of a woman's spiritual quest for "the volcano." "I'm trying to create a vision for my dreams," Harrison says. In Realization Kleyn travels from city to country, from the role of spy, strategist and game-player to a tranquil philosophical quietus.
Hank LINHART, Works 1978-83 (40 min.) Evocative video art and performance pieces. Includes Bog Rushes, Onomato, Apex (produced with synthesizer musician Joshua Fried) Skank, ItŐs Gonna Be a Great Day, Whipped, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Good Times; also The Game (with Peer Bode, C. Fellman, and Hank Rudolph), and The Insurance Monkeys.
$29.95
Terry MOHRE & Alan Moore, Studio Melee Sampler (1984; 20 min.) Schematic computer-animated presentation and documentary of an interactive video installation constructed from old machine parts
and painted backdrops.
$19.95
Robert PARKER, Left Right (1984, 20 min.) The sculptor and architect at home in Guelph, Canada, moves among stones and bones dressed in a loincloth. b/w.
$29.95
Kembra PFAHLER, Cowboy Stories Beautiful, trance-like multiple rescans of Pfahler's performance work with husband Samoa.
Barbara ROSENTHAL, Fingernails & other works (1988; 54 min.) 18 humorous short pieces use toys, puppets, and text in this media poet's performance works. Includes: Semaphore Poems, Wrapping Packages, Lying Diary, News Wall, Society, Curio Shop, & more.
Color Reel I (1986; 30 min) Diaries, documents & conceptual pieces includes Colors & Auras, Rock-A-Bye Rock Lobster, Silent Night, and I See A. "Incessantly personal, even naked, emphasizing language through stories, puns, songs, names" Voice.
Jayce SALLOUM The Ascent of Man (1985-87) includes I. Silent Running (4:42); II. Conditions of Mercy (6:15); and III. Acts of Consumption (8:00). And, In the Absence of Heroes, Warfare/Case for Context (1984; 43 min.). Salloum's work is an evocative image-essay on grand themes, executed in rapid-fire edits from found material.
George SCHIFINI, Known Ledge (1985, 11 min.) "The preacher and the shaman discover a reality we have chosen not to look at." A spare studio production with telling effects.
David SCHMIDLAPP, Slide Transforms (1982-87; 45 min.) I, Magi a paradox of truth; World War state of affairs; Facts of Life: Hootennany in Hell; also video enhanced document of Getting Over Getting Over audio-visual jam with Walter Steding, Phase 2 and others at Asylum, NYC.
Willoughby SHARP and Ira SCHNEIDER, Who Killed Heinrich Hertz? (1988; 15 min.) Made for a live "bi-directional microwave-delivered digital art event," this is a peek at a scientist's life and ideas. (Crew: D. Gigliotti, George Chaikin.)
STARCK Club, Big June reel (1984-8; ap. 100 min.) Programmed by Dallas TX video artist David Hynds, this tape features work by Hynds (Medical Practice, 1,000 Shirts and 6 more); Mark Ridlen (Lingerie Gourmet, Frayed 2 more); Susan Teegardin & Susan Magilow (Lazy Susans, Lamb Chops 2 more); and Ed Zabel (Women Dancing, Christian Cat, 6 more); and Leslie Jett. Starck was a major southwestern US video venue.
Kathy TANNEY, Stars in Her Eyes & You Talk (1985; 9.5 min.) "Stars" is a scratch-video interpretation of the Miss America pageant, "Talk" a snappy, computer animation.
Jordi TORRENT, Film Spectators Are Quiet Vampires (1985; 5 min.) An elegant, fast-moving "pilgrimage in the land of moving-on and death," a homage to singer Jim Morrison.
VIDEO Band, War Dance (1986, 30 min) A collection of music video art from the San Francisco band, War Dance, Reagan Commercials, California Zones, and more. Ace production, "such high quality and still retains its raw energy"Voice.
$29.95
Neil ZUSMAN, Sampler (80 min.) In fresh language, Zusman's video-poems talk to a sense that lies below consciousness. They are electronic joy-rides, jumping through eye boundaries. Time Witness (1986, 12 min.); Orbit (1982-83, 9 min.); State of Air (1986, 5 min.); Tympanum (1981, 9 min.); Boundary (1980, 18 min.); Bells (1984, 5 min.); Ocean Land (1985, 18 min.); Spirit in the House (1986, 3 min.).
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