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- A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
- A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
- The 92nd Academy Awards for film achievements in 2019 are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri's family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past - especially a past that exists outside traditional historic accounts - Tajiri blends interviews, memorabilia, a pilgrimage to the camp where her mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted pre-Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family's house removed from its site. Throughout, she surveys the impact of images (real images, desired images made real, and unrealized dream images). The film draws from a variety of sources: Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead, as well as Tajiri's own intuitions of a place she has never visited, but of which she has a memory. More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history - questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.
- "I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.
- French Artist Sophie Calle and American Photographer Greg Shephard's autobiographical account of their road trip across America. It can be seen as an experimental setup of two people and a camera on a cross-country drive, with hot twists.
- A "home movie" by Chris Marker of his visit to Tokyo with his girlfriend, actress Arielle Dombaste, beginning with a chat with a live mannequin in a store window, then through the subway and to the market.
- A man emerges from the forest and stands before a pool of water. He leaps up and time suddenly stops. All movement and change in the otherwise still scene is limited to the reflections and undulations on the surface of the pond. Time becomes extended and punctuated by a series of events seen only as reflections in the water. The work describes the emergence of the individual into the natural world, a baptism into a world of virtual images and indirect perceptions.
- Electronic Arts Intermix describes Ed Emshwiller's pioneering experimental concept video as a digital sculpture: "Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development of an electronic language to articulate three-dimensional space. The opening image is an iconic face, which appears to be electronically 'carved' from stone. A mystical third eye, brilliantly crafted from a digital palette, radiates with vibrant transformations of color and texture. Sculpting electronically, Emshwiller then transforms perspectival representation: the archetypal 'sunstone' is revealed to be one facet of an open, revolving cube, each side of which holds a simultaneously visible, moving video image. Created with complex technology over an eight-month period, this emblematic spinning cube metaphorically describes a three-dimensional, temporal space, both hyperreal and simulated. Emshwiller's humanistic approach to technology ushered in the 1980s with a new electronic vocabulary for conceptualizing and visualizing images in space and time. Reflecting an image-saturated world. SUNSTONE marked a new stage in electronic art."
- Skippy is encouraged by his parents to leave his "poisonous family" and find a new home. Along the way he is hit by a car and then filmed by a documentary filmmaker. Music from a chaotic youth party awakens him as he searches for something beautiful to hold onto.
- Football like you've never seen it before! This hilarious and insightful documentary featuring Christopher Guest and Bill Murray takes you behind the scenes of the 1976 Super Bowl X between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys.
- The second part of TVTV's Gerald Ford's America documentary series focuses on the Washington D.C. social scene.
- A somber, menacing woman washes white dishes and a gleaming carving knife, pours milk into a glass, and then slowly attacks first one young boy and then another. Not a word of dialogue is uttered.
- Martha Rosler takes us through an A-Z of the kitchen in this parodic feminist art film.
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- This doc by video pioneers TVTV examines Guru Maharaj Ji, 16-year-old leader of a cult-like new age group, known to his followers as Lord of the Universe. The 1974 gathering at Houston's Astrodome features Rennie Davis and Abbie Hoffman.
- A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered at The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with recent installations, historical background and interviews.
- "Junkyard Levitation" is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard.
- Documents the U.S. premiere production of "Originale", a happening piece by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
- The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice in 1990, when many of the original Fluxus artists met to hold a large exhibition almost 30 years after the first highly untraditional Fluxus' performances. Features Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, and many others.
- This witty and startlingly candid look at the 1972 Republican National Convention is a classic work of guerrilla television, and an alternative time capsule of an era of dramatic change in American politics, media, and culture.
- From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it like the book, draws connections between pagan history and ritual and mythology.
- Performance piece about the Kennedy assassination and the media's rôle in our view of events.
- "Songs of Innocence", which directly references the visionary romanticism of William Blake, is haunted with symbolic transformations, as shifting light is charted through the passage of a day. Images of children singing on a school lawn dissolve and reappear, hovering at the edge of perception, illusion and reality, evoking what Bill Viola terms "a visual relationship between memory, the setting of the sun, and death."
- A documentary looking at commercials, the people who make them and the people in them.
- A comprehensive compilation of American artist Chris Burden's four famous television commercials/interventions produced between 1973 and 1977: "Through the Night Softly", "Poem for L.A.", "Chris Burden Promo", and "Full Financial Disclosure" with intertitles in the form of explanatory texts written by the artist in order to give precise details about the original airing of each piece.
- An experimental short film centered around a collage of magazine and sound clips.
- Shot on location on the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, "Memories of Ancestral Power" centers on the cult leader Pelise Moro and his efforts to retain ancient traditions in the face of increasing Western influence.
- American video artist Bill Viola describes this short video work as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother."
- The first part of TVTV's Gerald Ford's America documentary series focuses on President Gerald Ford and America's fascination with the president.
- An extraordinary video sketchbook, a highly original, visually dramatic and frequently humorous collection of one hundred abbreviated "episodes" produced for television. Unfolding as a series of thirty-second vignettes, this enigmatic essay in style is characterized by a deadpan theatricality, symbolist imagery, surrealist juxtapositions and repetition of key visual motifs.
- Combines live photography and collage animation in one film. A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place.
- According to the artist Peter Callas, "this work deals with stereotypes of "Australian" identity, and at the same time examines Australian attitudes towards the media."
- Seating in an armchair against a stark background, the artist stares at the camera, his silence punctuated by screams. The camera pulls back to show he's at the end of a long hallway, and rapidly zooms again into the inside of his mouth .
- A mandala-like form, divided into four quadrants, unifies four events by four individuals in four separate spaces, exploring "the notion of the parallel nature of reality, that is, simultaneous events separated in space."
- Shot to resemble a personal diary film, and starring Shelly Silver herself as the fictional filmmaker heroine, "Suicide" is edgy, dark and funny; an audacious act of flirting with the suggestive autobiographical and autofiction genres.
- An exercise in technological reflexivity, conceived as an early investigation of the material presence of the electronic medium, where a videotape recorder tries to record itself following a technical miscalculation.
- The collection of five previous works by Bill Viola in "The Reflecting Pool: Collected Works, 1977-80", describe the stages of a personal journey using images of transition from day to night, motion to stillness, time to timelessness.