Program 1: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
Andrea Fraser
Inaugural Speech 20min. 1997
A performance created for the opening of inSITE97 in San Diego/Tijuana and documented on video, Inaugural Speech engages the politics of international exhibitions.
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Katja Mater
Cumulus 12min. 2007
Open books are passed slowly in front of the camera showing cloud images gleaned from the Amsterdam Central Library. Moving right to left, the books ease across the frame each one nudged gently along by the next.
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Kelly Sears
The Drift 8min. 20sec. 2007
A mysterious disappearance on a 1960s space journey launches the counter-culture revolution, the government blocks contraband radio broadcasts, and American fervor for conquering space results in tragic ends.
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Inaugural Speech 20min. 1997
A performance created for the opening of inSITE97 in San Diego/Tijuana and documented on video, Inaugural Speech engages the politics of international exhibitions.
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Katja Mater
Cumulus 12min. 2007
Open books are passed slowly in front of the camera showing cloud images gleaned from the Amsterdam Central Library. Moving right to left, the books ease across the frame each one nudged gently along by the next.
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Kelly Sears
The Drift 8min. 20sec. 2007
A mysterious disappearance on a 1960s space journey launches the counter-culture revolution, the government blocks contraband radio broadcasts, and American fervor for conquering space results in tragic ends.
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Zackary Drucker, Mariah Garnett, A.L. Steiner, Van Barnes
You Will Never Be A Woman... 8min. 2008
"You Will Never Be A Woman...", a video performance, features a conversation between two trans-identified people, Zackary Drucker and Van Barnes. Utilizing a coded language of bitchiness, resistance, and understanding, the syncopated language is as assaultive as it is poetic. Including vernacular "reads," candid dialogue, and improvised conversation, the piece addresses the characters' inter-personal relationship, and their cultural and political positions as "women."
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Susan Mogul
Sing, O Barren Woman 11min. 2000
An awkward silence surrounds women who have not had children. Part documentary, part music video, "Sing, O Barren Woman" gives voice to ten middle-aged women who "come out" as non-mothers through word and song: "Never mentioned in public or given a voice, we're invisible women who made a provocative choice."
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Chris Peters
Applause 1min. 2008
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You Will Never Be A Woman... 8min. 2008
"You Will Never Be A Woman...", a video performance, features a conversation between two trans-identified people, Zackary Drucker and Van Barnes. Utilizing a coded language of bitchiness, resistance, and understanding, the syncopated language is as assaultive as it is poetic. Including vernacular "reads," candid dialogue, and improvised conversation, the piece addresses the characters' inter-personal relationship, and their cultural and political positions as "women."
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Susan Mogul
Sing, O Barren Woman 11min. 2000
An awkward silence surrounds women who have not had children. Part documentary, part music video, "Sing, O Barren Woman" gives voice to ten middle-aged women who "come out" as non-mothers through word and song: "Never mentioned in public or given a voice, we're invisible women who made a provocative choice."
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Chris Peters
Applause 1min. 2008
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Program 2: DECEMBER/JANUARY
Jordan Biren
The Exchange of the Avant-Garde 6min. 30sec. 2008-2009
The Exchange of the Avant-Garde reworks documentation from a 2008, three hour performance of the same name, into another temporal form, video. The performance, and consequent video, were inspired by quotes taken from Norman Klein’s discussion of the late Jean Baudrillard.
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Nina Katchadourian
Mystic Shark 4min. 34sec. 2007
Mystic Shark was shot in a hotel room in Mystic, CT, using a box of petrified teeth bought at the Mystic Seaport Museum's gift shop. Mystic Shark tries to elicit sympathy through the awkward and sentimental anthropomorphism of this much-feared and almost mythically vicious creature.
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Jessica Mein
Ceguelra 2min. 15sec. loop 2008
Cegueira deals with the physicality of paper, the deconstruction and layering of images in the timeline. Physical properties of digital video, such as interlacing, are used as structures for the horizontality of the blinds and of images in movement. Cegueira attempts to capture the patina of time and the layers of images that form the grittiness and materiality of urban space.
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The Exchange of the Avant-Garde 6min. 30sec. 2008-2009
The Exchange of the Avant-Garde reworks documentation from a 2008, three hour performance of the same name, into another temporal form, video. The performance, and consequent video, were inspired by quotes taken from Norman Klein’s discussion of the late Jean Baudrillard.
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Nina Katchadourian
Mystic Shark 4min. 34sec. 2007
Mystic Shark was shot in a hotel room in Mystic, CT, using a box of petrified teeth bought at the Mystic Seaport Museum's gift shop. Mystic Shark tries to elicit sympathy through the awkward and sentimental anthropomorphism of this much-feared and almost mythically vicious creature.
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Jessica Mein
Ceguelra 2min. 15sec. loop 2008
Cegueira deals with the physicality of paper, the deconstruction and layering of images in the timeline. Physical properties of digital video, such as interlacing, are used as structures for the horizontality of the blinds and of images in movement. Cegueira attempts to capture the patina of time and the layers of images that form the grittiness and materiality of urban space.
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Program 3: FEBRUARY/MARCH
Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin
Lossless #5 3min. 2008
Lossless is a series that explores the effects of digital compression and file-sharing on the film image. Lossless investigates film's dematerialization, foregrounding the structural components of digital media. The project also considers the impact of the digital age on filmmaking and film watching, its social aspects and its political economy. In Lossless #5, a Busby Berkley water ballet turns into geometrical abstraction.
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Patricia Esquivias
No Law Whatsoever 2min. 49sec. 2009
In No Law Whatsoever, a voice-over introduces footage of people strolling the streets of Madrid. Light reflections intrude onto their faces from the location of the camera. As in much of Esquivias's work in the series, Reads like the Paper (2005-ongoing), details of the everyday and mundane are cast in a poetic, almost fable-like light.
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Ignacio Genzon
Handy Man 8min. 2009
"There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse." -Fleur Adcock
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Lossless #5 3min. 2008
Lossless is a series that explores the effects of digital compression and file-sharing on the film image. Lossless investigates film's dematerialization, foregrounding the structural components of digital media. The project also considers the impact of the digital age on filmmaking and film watching, its social aspects and its political economy. In Lossless #5, a Busby Berkley water ballet turns into geometrical abstraction.
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Patricia Esquivias
No Law Whatsoever 2min. 49sec. 2009
In No Law Whatsoever, a voice-over introduces footage of people strolling the streets of Madrid. Light reflections intrude onto their faces from the location of the camera. As in much of Esquivias's work in the series, Reads like the Paper (2005-ongoing), details of the everyday and mundane are cast in a poetic, almost fable-like light.
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Ignacio Genzon
Handy Man 8min. 2009
"There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse." -Fleur Adcock
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Program 4: APRIL/MAY
Program 6: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
Jeff Cain
Radar Balloon 7min. 11sec. 2005
Radar Balloon is a video documentation of an experiment to contact a private military research and development company that develops unmanned drones with a children’s science experiment.
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Fallen Fruit
Double Standard 32min. 2008
Deploying documentary footage of a guided Neighborhood Fruit Forage, Double Standard takes the viewer in real time through a tour of Fallen Fruit's home neighborhood in Los Angeles. The two channels (from the perspective of the two cameras) are overlaid with a text block of comments from a public television video of the same event which had been posted on YouTube.The comments create an alternative, cruelly critical narrative to the events documented in the raw footage, with crude, homophobic and racist comments mixed in with a few acute observations.
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Micol Hebron
Dare You 18min. 2007-2009
For this piece, several single-sex pairs of men and women were asked to participate. There is a variety of participants: gay, straight, friends, strangers. For each scene of the video, a pair of men or women stand facing each other. They look directly into each other’s eyes as they slowly move closer and closer together (as if to kiss), until one of the two participants ‘chickens out’, and pulls away, or until they both kiss.
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Radar Balloon 7min. 11sec. 2005
Radar Balloon is a video documentation of an experiment to contact a private military research and development company that develops unmanned drones with a children’s science experiment.
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Fallen Fruit
Double Standard 32min. 2008
Deploying documentary footage of a guided Neighborhood Fruit Forage, Double Standard takes the viewer in real time through a tour of Fallen Fruit's home neighborhood in Los Angeles. The two channels (from the perspective of the two cameras) are overlaid with a text block of comments from a public television video of the same event which had been posted on YouTube.The comments create an alternative, cruelly critical narrative to the events documented in the raw footage, with crude, homophobic and racist comments mixed in with a few acute observations.
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Micol Hebron
Dare You 18min. 2007-2009
For this piece, several single-sex pairs of men and women were asked to participate. There is a variety of participants: gay, straight, friends, strangers. For each scene of the video, a pair of men or women stand facing each other. They look directly into each other’s eyes as they slowly move closer and closer together (as if to kiss), until one of the two participants ‘chickens out’, and pulls away, or until they both kiss.
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Program 5: JUNE/JULY
Cauleen Smith
Entitled 6min. 2008
Entitled is a series of Super 8-recorded Still Lifes. Each composition is dedicated to an artist in the form of a personal letter. These texts attempt to conflate the filmmaker's longing, the contemplation of our mortality, and the utter banality that comprises every day life.
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José Carlos Teixeira
Deviation & Consequence: towards a new (r)evolution
22min. 2008
The video consists of two simultaneous projections, side by side, showing the co-creation process of new phrases for the national song. The protagonists of such action are African-Portuguese, and the main scenario is the Cova da Moura neighborhood in Lisbon. For 22 minutes, with both an artistic and documentary tones, themes related to identity, otherness, displacement, cultural difference and the feeling of exile and/or belonging are revealed and intensified.
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Jason Underhill
B.Y.O.B.B.Q 13min. 2009
B.Y.O.B.B.Q. follows Tilda and her passive resistance to imminent doom after she hitches a ride to her friend’s barbecue..
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Entitled 6min. 2008
Entitled is a series of Super 8-recorded Still Lifes. Each composition is dedicated to an artist in the form of a personal letter. These texts attempt to conflate the filmmaker's longing, the contemplation of our mortality, and the utter banality that comprises every day life.
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José Carlos Teixeira
Deviation & Consequence: towards a new (r)evolution
22min. 2008
The video consists of two simultaneous projections, side by side, showing the co-creation process of new phrases for the national song. The protagonists of such action are African-Portuguese, and the main scenario is the Cova da Moura neighborhood in Lisbon. For 22 minutes, with both an artistic and documentary tones, themes related to identity, otherness, displacement, cultural difference and the feeling of exile and/or belonging are revealed and intensified.
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Jason Underhill
B.Y.O.B.B.Q 13min. 2009
B.Y.O.B.B.Q. follows Tilda and her passive resistance to imminent doom after she hitches a ride to her friend’s barbecue..
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