Documentary 2

Documentary

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Marie MARTINE, 11th & B: East Village Summer of Love (1985, 20 min.) Produced by a French group, this music video features the music of Alan Vega, Marty Rev (both of Suicide), and the False Prophets. The music underlies a rapid montage of people on the street and wall painting in the East Village, summer of 1985. Each song is bracketed by a verite documentary of Scott Borofsky spray-painting a mural on a tenement wall. 11th & B captures the energy of the upstart New York art neighborhood the best on that we've seen.
$19.95

Mary McFERRAN Homage to May 19 and FramedSee Artists TV

Robert PARKER, Parker (1987; 20 min.) The sculptor (pre-eminent in the 'Rivington School') at his forge and on the street scavenging metal, produced for Japanese TV. Plus video animation of the sculptor's work by video artist Terry Mohre.
$29.95

Clayton PATTERSON,Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, Aug. 1988 (1988, 90 min.) The controversial video that has been the focus of a court battle between authorities and its maker. Patterson said, "I want to show the tape to the public so that the People would be the Grand Jury." A basic document in the recent history of urban civil strife in the U.S. "This was a military action on the streets of NYC and you can see that" Sharon Broussard, NY Daily News.
$59.95

Joe Coleman (1989; 59 min.) A rainy night visit to Joe's 20th-century bizarre memorabilia museum on NYC's Lower East Side. Coleman, a painter and performance artist, was "banned in Boston" and censored by Price Is Right's Bob Barker for geeking rats onstage and 'exploding human' performances; Coleman also gives a tour through the abandoned apartment of "Monster of Tompkins Square" Daniel Rakowitz.
$39.95

Nick Zedd (1989, 29 min.) and Steven Oddo (1989, 29 min.) Zedd is a portrait of the no-budget filmmaker and Lower East Side punk icon who can be seen popping in and out of frame at some of the area's historical protests and riots. Oddo, who cuts himself up, draws his own blood, and gives regurgitation performances, explains his pre-necrophilia fantasies. A German TV crew called Oddo "a disturbed young man."
$29.95

Tompkins Square Park, 1989 (1989, 29 min.) and Dinkinsville (1989, 29 min.) TSP takes you on a mini-tour around Tompkins Sq. Park; see squatters being evicted and a demonstration that happened coincidentally. Dinkinsville: The mayor of NYC called the homeless living in Tompkins Sq. Park "worse than hardened criminals." So, as a tribute to the mayor, the homeless named their shantytown Dinkinsville. When NYPD troops marched down the street, there was nowhere to go, so the homeless employed scorched-earth
$39.95

Virge PIERSOL, Short Pieces (1978, 58 min.) This piece is a fixed-camera b/w documentary of musical performances at Jeffrey Lohn's loft. A good portrait of the NYC "art band" esthetic, features solo by Laurie Anderson, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca.
$29.95

Christy RUPP, City Wildlife: Mice, Rats & Roaches (1980, 28 min.) The sculptor produced this TV show of science-oriented information about "vermin," then the subject of her art. Interview with a cockroach expert (who dissects one), curious set-ups, includes classic shot of rat eating Big Mac hamburger. A different kind of educational video.
$29.95

Arleen SCHLOSS, Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 4 (1984; 10:30) Document of the musician's European tour with performance footage, music.
$19.95

Art Around the Park (1993, 28 min.) Documents one-day event in which over 100 artists paint a continuous mural around then-closed Tompkins Square Park.
$29.95

Willoughby SHARP, Videoview with Joseph Beuys (1975; 30 min.) Then-Avalanche magazine publisher questions the famed German artist as his career began to boom.
$29.95

Joseph Beuys, Public Dialogues (1974; 120 min.) Video of the famed German artist's first public appearance in the U.S., during which he outlines his political/artistic philosophies.
$49.95

Ross SKOGGARD , Conversation with Roy Lichtenstein & The New German Art (1980, 25 min.; 1982, 15 min.) A look at the Whitney exhibition and an interview with Roy as he paints in his Southampton studio. German is a talk with critics Donald Kuspit & Benjamin Buchloh on the neo-expressionist work of Kiefer, Penck, et al.
$29.95

Jordi TORRENT, Will Eisner (1986, 15 min.) Video portrait of the cartoonist famed for his strip The Spirit.
$19.95

Interview with Jonas Mekas (1986, 20 min.) The famed director of Anthology Film Archives discusses his film work and his new institution.
$19.95

Rick van VALKENBURG, Video Void (1987, 30 min.) A collection of rock, jazz music and poetry recorded at Neither/Nor, the now-closed East Village bookstore & performance space. This tape is fresh & lively.
$29.95

Penny WARD, Video Dance (includes The Stone Dances, Water Pieces #2, Southwest #2, and The Water Pieces) (1987-90; app. 35 min.) We're proud to offer this long-time dance videographer's compositions. Ward rhythmically mixes images of bodies and objects, working with choreographers Shelley Lee and Sue Bernhard to design pieces that weld camera and body.
$19.95