Video Art

  • Hamlet Hovsepian – Kos AKA Itch (1975)

    Hamlet Hovsepian1971-1980ArmeniaExperimentalVideo Art

    Quote:
    Statement by Hamlet Hovsepian regarding the films:
    “”What have been presented are totally unrelated events (material) at the outset. The relation between them portrays neither pleasant nor unpleasant feelings. To find interest in a place outside man’s attention.”Read More »

  • Hamlet Hovsepian – Untitled (1976)

    1971-1980ArmeniaExperimentalHamlet HovsepianVideo Art

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    “Rotation around a rock” / during socialism / the passage of days and decades came to resemble one another, that was our life. Monotonous life chases after us and we are chasing after it.” (Hamlet Hovsepian)Read More »

  • Hamlet Hovsepian – Glukh AKA Head (1975)

    1971-1980ArmeniaExperimentalHamlet HovsepianVideo Art

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.Read More »

  • Nicholas Ray – We Can’t Go Home Again (1973)

    1971-1980ExperimentalNicholas RayUSAVideo Art

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    A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) accepted a teaching contract at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY. There, with the intensive collaboration of his students, he began work on a project unlike anything he had done before, the making of which would consume his creative energies for the remainder of his life. Entitled We Can’t Go Home Again, that film is Ray’s enormously ambitious, profoundly personal, wildly experimental magnum opus – a collection of notes on Vietnam-era America, the generation gap and the filmmaking process itself, conceived in a dizzying kaleidoscope of split screens, superimpositions and other radical image manipulations that anticipate later trends in video art and digital effects.Read More »

  • Seth Price – Redistribution (2007)

    2001-2010ExperimentalSeth PriceUSAVideo Art

    People often want to hear what the artist has to say, what lies “behind” the work, yet at the same time it’s taken as a performance.

    But Seth Price’s Redistribution (2007 – ) isn’t an artist talk. It uses the artist’s talk as a form and turns it into a video: the artist is at a lectern, giving an overview of his practice, but his explanations are called into question by the constructed nature of all the graphic effects, repeated sequences, voice-overs, or background music. After all, a video is just material in a chain.

    When an image is filtered, you’re mostly seeing the filter.Read More »

  • Travis Klose – Arakimentari (2004)

    2001-2010DocumentaryTravis KloseUSAVideo Art

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    The documentary feature ARAKIMENTARI explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki’s own. Araki’s fame and the debate around his photography derive mostly from his work with nudes, which blur the lines normally established between art, erotica, and pornography. The photographs have often been credited with reversing the Japanese ban on the visual representation of pubic hair, and Araki has been seen by his supporters as one of the artistic champions of free speech and social criticism in Japan. Some of Araki’s celebrity fans–Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and others–are interviewed to explain the appeal and importance of his photography. Liberally peppered with images of the photography and presented in a manner designed to imitate the combination of titillation and estrangement Araki’s work engenders, ARAKIMENTARI goes beyond the biographical documentary to the realm of artistic portrait.Read More »

  • Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster – Parc Central (2006)

    2001-2010DocumentaryDominique Gonzalez-FoersterFranceVideo Art

    A collection of 11 short poetic psycho-geographic portraits of cities and spaces from artist Dominique Gonzelez-Foerster, who’s cinematic 2007 solo show at Musée dArt moderne de la Ville de Paris will be supplemented in 2008 by the Unilever commission for the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern (joining Carsten Holler’s slides, Olafur Eliason’s sun, and Doris Salcedo’s crack amongst many other prestigious past projects).Read More »

  • Matthew Barney – River of Fundament (2014)

    USA2011-2020ExperimentalMatthew BarneyVideo Art

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    In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived as a nontraditional opera with a series of one-time-only live acts performed across the American landscape over a five-year period. This opera developed as a film titled River of Fundament, which combines documentation of the three live acts with scenes set in a reconstruction of Norman Mailer’s brownstone apartment in Brooklyn Heights.Read More »

  • Various – Thee Psychick Videos (2009)

    2001-2010ExperimentalUnited KingdomVariousVideo Art

    “A collection of previously almost impossible to find early Psychic TV and Temple of Psychick Youth (TOPY) film and video creations unearthed from the archives of Porridge with Everything Inc. These include works by and/or featuring Derek Jarman,Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, Trojan, John Balance, Leigh Bowery, Cerith Wyn Evans, Marie Losier, Nicolas Jenkins, Mr. Sebastian, Hazel Hill, Lady Jaye P-Orridge and others.

    DVD compiled and mastered by Hazel Hill. “Read More »

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