Single Artist Compilations
Single Artist Compilations are surveys of an artists moving image work.
  Video Data Bank is proud to present the wonderful work of artist Laura Parnes. This two-volume box set features four video works that highlight her interest in the deconstruction of narrative film conventions, including her reimagining of Kathy...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: body, consumer culture, crime or violence, feminism, installation, mental landscape, music, politics, youth/childhood |
Ken Kobland has been working in various aspects of film and video since 1971, creating productions in collaboration with performing artists such as Philip Glass, the Wooster Group, Elizabeth LeCompte, and Spalding Gray. His work explores a...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: autobiography, city, diary, environment, expedition/travel, film or videomaking, future, landscape, literature, memory, performance |
Barry Doupé is known for using crude computer-animation indicative of early video games to create unnatural environments populated by strange abstracted characters. The spaces and the characters within them are never stable, always in a liminal...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animation, body, mental landscape, videoworks |
In her overt challenge to conventional modes of femininity and sexuality, Hester Scheurwater confronts the viewer with her own body. The distorted, doll-like characters she plays in her video performances balance between fantasy and reality...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animals, body, european film/video, family, feminism, gender, mental landscape, performance, videoworks, youth/childhood |
Jim Finn’s films and videos have been described as “Utopian comedies.” In the four works that comprise Jim Finn Videoworks: Volume 2, the comedy that emerges through Finn's (not so) exaggerated interrogation of the products and symbols...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: film or videomaking, found footage, history, landscape, mental landscape, politics |
In Les LeVeque Videoworks: Volume 3, Les LeVeque explores time and the way in which it can be manipulated to affect the communication of emotion. In the first video, pulse pharma phantasm, LeVeque collapses 9 different...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: consumer culture, film or videomaking, found footage, gender, hollywood, image processing, media analysis, politics, television, videoworks, war |
The three videos that comprise Jesse McLean Videoworks: Volume 1 (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we know and The Burning Blue) all concern various facets of our complicated emotional and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: found footage, media analysis, television, videoworks |
The work of Dani Leventhal explores the complicated space that exists between decay and renewal, intimacy and disconnection and the sacred and mundane. The six pieces that comprise Dani Leventhal Videoworks: Volume 1 each examine these...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animals, body, death and dying, diary, expedition/travel, family, jewish, lgbt, middle east, religion/spirituality, sexuality, youth/childhood |
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, who comprise the UK artist duo Semiconductor, make moving image works that explore the material nature of our world and question our place in the physical universe. This collection of works shows Semiconductor’s...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animation, environment, landscape, science, sound, videoworks |
