Videos

VIDEOS: The following videos I discovered on my own and have found them worth while for the research towards my thesis.

“Merchants of Cool” by FRONTLINE. A one hour look at how the youth market works. Aired in 2001. VHS.
Art 21 Three seasons of a series of four, one hour presentations with four specific artist. DVD
Season 1:
Episode 1: “Place”
Artists: Richard Serra, Sally Mann, Barry McGee & Martha Kigallen, Pepon Osorio
Episode 2: “Spirituality”
Artist: Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell
Episode 3: “Identity”
Artist: Bruce Nauman, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin, Louise Bourgeois
Episode 4: “Copnsumption”
Artist: Michael Ray Charles, Matthew Barney, Andrea Zittel, Mel Chin
Season 2:
Episode 1: “Stories”
Artists: Kara Walkes, Kiki Smith, DoHo Su, Trenton Doyle Hancock
Episode 2: “Loss and Desire”
Artist: Collier Schorr, Gabriel Orozco, Janine Antoni
Episode 3: “Time”
Artist: Martin Puryear, Paul Pfeiffer, Vijan Celmins, Tim Hawkinson
Episode 4: “Humorous”
Artist: Eleanor Antin, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Murray, Walton Ford
[Season 3:
Episode 1: “Power”
Artists: Cai Guo Qiang, Laylah Ali, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ida Applebroog
Episode 2: “Memory”
Artist: Susan Rothenberg, Mike Kelly, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Josiah Mc Elheny
Episode 3: “Structure”
Artist: Matthew Ritchie, Fred Wilson, Richard Tuttle, Roni Horn
Episode 4: “Play”
Artist: Jessica Stockholder, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring

Surrealist Film: The Stuff of Dreams, (Films for the Humanities and Sciences) DVD, 39 minutes,
Note on DVDs: Dada was a protest by a group of European artist against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservatism of traditional thought. Its followers used absurdities and non sequiturs to create artworks and performances which defied any intellectual analysis. They also included random “found” objects in sculptures and installations.
The founders included the French artist Jean Arp and the writers Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara. Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp were also key contributors.
The Dada movement evolved into Surrealism in the 1920’s.
The aim of the surrealist: To destroy traditional values as a protest of a world gone mad, a world bereft of reason.
1915 D.W. Griffith laid out traditional film values “Birth of a Nation.”
Man Ray made the 1st surrealist film
Leading surrealist: Marcel Duchamp, Andre’ Breton, Salvador Dali, Louis Bunel.
Some influences of surrealism are: “Spellbound” by Hitchcock. “Grand Canyon”, “Being John Malkovitch” , David Lynch’s work and “The Twilight Zone.”

The following were recommended videos from the Art 520 class which are held in the Oviatt Library.

Lets play Prisoners by Julie Zando made in 1988, VHS running 20 minutes, Video #86988. B/W film where a woman or a child speaks to the camera, occasionally there are graphics. Speaks to the theme of power and love. There is some pornography in the film.
The Apparent Trap by Julie Zando made in 1999, VHS running 20 minutes, video #87008. Empty cabin – people walk on a path – woman sings a camping song. Surreal repetitive sound track.
Sink or Swim by Su Friedrick, 1990, 48 minute VHS, video #86884. A girls voice leads the viewer thru the film of a mix of film clips. Mythological and symbolic references.
Perils, Mayhem and Mercy: Three films by Abigail Child. 35 minute VHS made in 1986-89, video #86885. The three films have a faint connection between the picture and the sound. They reflect a fragmented state of mind with threads of related subject matter. Perils, B/W film – people pose – old time movies sound –
with fragments of music.
Mayhem, film noir style – abstract detective narrative –
sensual with implied violence.
Mercy, make use of newsreel footage and travel footage.
Ocularis: Eye Surrogates by Tran K. Kim-Trang, 1997, 21 minute VHS, video #86959. A political/philosophical film. Uses a narrator and graphics.
“Diasporama: Dead Air. 89 minute color VHS, 1997, video #86987. References to the Chinese, Hong Kong revolutions and protests and the Chinese students who come to Canada. Documentary in style.
Electronic Bodies, by Rita Gonzalez (UCLA)18 minute, VHS, 1996, video #86882. (Graceland: adult movie meets Disneyland.) References to Elvis and Michael Jackson. Abstract figures – telephoto lens – jerky film – old look – textures – shoot old cartoons on TV.
By Brakhage: An Anthology, 2 disc DVD, video #10560
Chronic and other films, by Jennifer Reeves, 58 minute VHS, 1993-6, video #86886. B/W, tinting, grainy, a visual assault with flash cuts, high speed shots, super-impositions.
The Girls Nervy, animated painted film stock with “swing” type music.
Monsters in the Closet, comments on sexuality – girl in tub – little girl outdoors – use of titles.
Jenny’s Gang,
Third Known Nest, by Tom Kalin, 39 minute VHS, 1991-99, video #86986. Music video style – flicker cut – music driven – hand held camera – soft focus – comments on sex and violence.
The Works of Sadie Benning, 50 minute VHS, 1989 – 90, video #86892. A slide of life film – titles on windows of 2nd floor – “home movies” – hear kids talk – hear music – mime – street preacher – write on paper over glass with figure in the back ground – train ride.
Illusions – The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash, 1992, 27 minute VHS, video #85649. Define jazz in titles – hear music and crashes.
Daughters of the Dust, autobiographical film.
Illusions, old movie – 2 women in office – not happy with what she was of black women on the screen.
The Films of Jane Champion, VHS, video #86891.
Peel, a True Story – 89 minutes - a true family. A dysfunctional family on vacation – a day in the life – Hollywood narrative – color – made in Australia.
Passionless Moments, 90 minutes, vignettes
A Girl’s Own Story, 49 minutes – B/W – narrative drama – sex and boys, dad & mom – consequences.
Tribulation 99, by Craig Baldwin, 16 mm film on VHS, 50 minutes – video #86896. Pseudo-documentary, alien anomalies under America.
Peripheral Produce All Time Greatest Hits, DVD, video release number 10 – experimental cinema championship 2001. DVD #10472.
1. Getting Stronger Everyday, Miraada July – image on glass.
2. Wusten Stringnous, by Jim Finn – gerbil.
3. The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, by Matt McCormick - 16mm –
4. Stuffing – animal charm.
5. Removal, Nammi Uman – 1999 – Euro painted out 16mm porn.
6. Election Collectibles, by Bryan Boyle – 4 minute
7. N. Judah 5:30, by Sam Green – 2001 – 8 minutes – watch the subway.
8. Cona’s Veil, by Brian Frye – 2001 – 8 minutes – Celluloid decomposition.
9. Crowdog, by Vanessa Renwick – 1993 – 8 minutes.
10. Buffalo Common, by Bill Brown – 2001 – 23 minutes – documentary – missile silo destruction.
Reassemblage, by Trinh T. Minh-ha – 1982 – 40 minute – Art Documentary (shown in class) – color – video #86889. View of women in 1982 Senegal.
How to Live in the German Federal Republic, the films of Harun Farocki – 83 minutes – color – 1990 – video #86879 Recall of “training” for the professional living – 32 short scenes – “…nothing happens without rehearsal and preparation.”
Images of the World and Inscription of War, the films of Harun Farocki – 75 minutes – 1988 – video #86881 – enlightenment, a work in the history of ideas – narrator – music in intermittent.