Activism

Laura Kipnis, Ecstasy Unlimited
Laura Kipnis
Ecstasy Unlimited: The Interpenetrations of Sex and Capita!

Ecstasy Unlimited is an engaging video essay on the social construction of sexuality. Kipnis attempts to historicize pleasure and politicize desire, to reveal within the current discourse on sex — and within an ensemble of current sexual practices — the production of forms of sexuality that work to guarantee social order, rather than subvert it. Through various narrative ploys and theoretical tactics, the tape attempts to recover traces of a "political unconscious" in contemporary social malaise.

Laura Kipnis, Your Money or Your Life
Laura Kipnis
Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life is a video essay on street crime, and on the role played by an atmosphere of pervasive (white) urban fear in structuring and renewing racial antagonism and inequality. At the center of the tape is a young, white, middle-class woman caught in an ideological trap in which her genuine fear, whetted and animated by the media, becomes synonymous with racial suspicion and hostility. Her counterpart is a black mugger, who tells a story of unemployment, powerlessness, ambition and cynicism, unmasking an ethos not dissimilar to the ethos of American capitalism.

Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World
Videofreex
Tuned In, Turned On! Videofreex Tape the World

Formed in 1969 at the legendary Woodstock Music Festival by David Cort and Parry Teasdale, who met while taping the events with the newly available Portapak video equipment, the Videofreex (also known as "the Freex") were one of the very first video collectives. After working together to pitch a program to the major broadcasting station CBS, they toured the country interviewing counter-cultural figures of the day, including Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther party, and Abbie Hoffman, so called leader of the Yippies.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series One
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series One

Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. 

AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITION, WITH SERIES One.  ARTIST CAN CONSULT ON INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street movement protesters on November 17, 2011, three days after the destruction of the camp at Zuccotti Park.  Footage captures an evening rally at Foley Square and a march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Guy Picciotto

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series Two.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on November 17, 2011.  Newsreel captures the park on the morning of Occupy Wall Street Day of Action, two days after police raid on the encampement.

Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on November 15 and 16, 2011. Newsreel captures police raid on the park and its aftermath.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

 

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on November 2, 2011.  Newsreel captures Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans march and rally nad General Assembly guest speaker.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Guy Picciotto

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on October 24, 2011.  Newsreel captures a large General Assembly meeting and smaller working groups meeting in public atrium.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Guy Picciotto

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series One
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two

Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. 

Available for Exhibition, with Series Two.  Artist can consult on installation specifications.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4

Impressions of Occupy Wall Street’s Liberty Square at night, shot in October of 2011.  Includes a General Assembly meeting about purchasing a new wi-fi tower for the encampment, and a first winter storm.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park in the rain on October 19, 2011.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto, Quotes from Eric Cantor, Herman Cain
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park in New York City in late 2011.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest at Times Square during Global Day of Action, October 15, 2011.   

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest during Global Day of Action, October 15, 2011.   An affinity group meets at the New York Public Library and marches to main demonstration at Times Square.

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