Curated Compilations

Curated compilations are multiple titles programmed around a particular subject or theme. The majority of these were produced by the Video Data Bank.

Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving... 2003 \| 1:07:21 Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, produced by Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, was conceived to make accessible the work of some of the most... Collection: Curated Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: conceptual art, visual art	Presidents and Elections 2004 \| 58:43 The commodification of the American presidency is examined and lampooned in Presidents and Elections, a compilation of work from the Video Data Bank collection. Interweaving humorous, disquieting, and surreal videos with actual... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: consumer culture, history, media analysis, politics, television	Radical Closure 2010 \| 5:36:57 Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, and originally presented by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Radical Closure features works produced in response to situations of physical or ideological closure resulting from... Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, DVD Box Sets Tags: experimental film, landscape, middle east, politics
Radical Closure, Program 1: The Captives 2010 \| 1:29:02 This first program deals with stories of captivity. To start, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes by Walid Raad presents us with an imagined hostage presumably held in custody along with the American hostages in Lebanon during the 1980’s. Raad’s... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: autobiography, crime or violence, diary, documentary, environment, family, jewish, landscape, media analysis, middle east, politics, sexuality, war	Radical Closure, Program 2: War/The Visible... 2010 \| 1:10:45 This program presents different approaches to looking at war, and to using images of war. My Friend Imad and the Taxi is an unfinished work from two amateur filmmakers, both passionate about film, who lived in Beirut in the eighties when... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: european film/video, experimental film, family, future/technology, media analysis, middle east, music, photography, politics, surveillance, war	Radical Closure, Program 3: At the Border 2010 \| 58:55 Border situations have inspired writers, artists and filmmakers, particularly within the context of divisions and border control within the Middle East. Who draws the borders? What are the effects of imposing them, of imposing checkpoints? This... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: body, eastern european, family, landscape, middle east, war
Radical Closure, Program 4: Intensive Care 2010 \| 54:00 Named after Hatice Güleryüz’s haunting short film, with its disturbing yet iconic images, this program presents unsettling situations narrated with both considerable emotional investment and critical distance. In her work Intensive Care... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, body, eastern european, expedition/travel, history, middle east, music, performance, politics, youth/childhood	Radical Closure, Program 5: The Trace That... 2010 \| 1:04:15 How useful is personal testimony to History? The most abstract of all the works that focus on personal narrative in this program is certainly Lisa Steele’s Birthday Suit with scars and defects, in which the artist gently caresses every... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: architecture, body, expedition/travel, family, feminism, middle east, politics, post-colonialism	Soft Science 2005 \| 1:03:45 Soft Science is a collection of video-curiosities created by artists and scientists. Behind laboratory doors are some of the most astonishing "outsider" art projects around. Autopoetic bacteria, tethered... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, body, future/technology