Single Artist Compilations
This 3-disc DVD collection features nine works by maverick film and video maker Peggy Ahwesh. The set also includes title descriptions, a biography, film/videography, a selected bibliography, and the following texts:
Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Box Sets Tags: consumer culture, crime or violence, feminism, future, gender, language, lgbtq, mental landscape, performance, sexuality, video games, youth/childhood |
The two Social Studies videos call into question fundamental assumptions about the cross-purposes of entertainment: to entertain, to present cultural values, to mediate public policies, and to define social relationships. ...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: feminism, gender, politics, videoworks |
Pixilated, an archaic word meaning enchanted, bewitched, magical, insane, and the stop frame animation of objects and people. In addition to Furniture Poetry, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Pas de Deux de Deux and While...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations |
"The videowork of Nelson Henricks, though quite varied in treatment and theme, has worked toward the articulation of a single concern: How can love fly through the air and be received by me?" —Steve Reinke
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: consumer culture, humor, performance, videoworks |
Three of these four works form a trilogy that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window. The window is used to examine notions of knowledge, voyeurism, surveillance and time. In addition, Crush is a reflection on identity,...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: autobiography, body, diary, experimental film, lgbtq, sexuality, videoworks |
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Four short videos by artist Miranda July, covering the period 1996 to 2001.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: family, home dvd, mental landscape, performance, sexuality, videoworks, youth/childhood |
O Night Without Objects, A Trilogy explores the relationship of conversion experiences - therapeutic, political and religious - to technology, fear and family. The segments are stylistically diverse, employing theatrical,...
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: jewish, psychoanalysis, race, religion/spirituality, youth/childhood |
This series of four videos explores Hock’s growing friendship and empathy with his Mexican neighbors, his acceptance into their community, and an examination of their day-to-day struggles.
Collection: Single Artist Compilations Tags: family, latino/chicano, politics |