Single Artist Compilations

Single Artist Compilations are surveys of an artists moving image work.
O Night Without Objects
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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

OBSERVER / OBSERVED and Other Works of Video Semiology
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This video trilogy of Camera, Monitor, Frame, Observer / Observed, and Observer / Observed / Observer creates a semiology of video as a work on video rather than a written text.  Its main purpose is to study the...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: asian-american, film or videomaking, language, video history

Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity)
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This compilation is produced with "myself" as the sole object, as well as the material of the performance (except two videos with Akiko iimura).  The videos are not just documents of the performances, but works of video-art made specifically...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations, Early Video Art

Tags: asian-american, film or videomaking, language, performance

Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh
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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:

  • Pistolary!...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets

Tags: consumer culture, crime or violence, feminism, future/technology, gender, language, lgbt, mental landscape, performance, sexuality, video games, youth/childhood

POSTWAR: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg
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This three-disc DVD box set contains Eisenberg's four thematically connected films - Displaced Person, Cooperation of Parts, Persistence, and Something More Than Night - made between 1981 and 2003, exploring...

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets, Compilations

Tags: architecture, chicago art, city, diary, documentary, european film/video, expedition/travel, experimental film, family, film or videomaking, history, jewish, war

Rankus, Ed Videoworks: Volume 1
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: video history, videoworks

Tom Rubnitz Videoworks: Sexy, Wiggy, Desserty
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Until his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Tom Rubnitz produced short, humourous videotapes featuring some of New York’s most outrageously talented musicians, artists and drag queens. Influenced by mass media entertainment, Rubnitz crafted...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: camp, gender, home dvd, humor, lgbt, music, performance, videoworks

Sterling Ruby: Interventionist Works 2001-2002
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Four videos from artist Sterling Ruby that deal with quiet moments, capturing an atmospheric intimacy, both voyeuristic and perverse.

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: chicago art, conceptual art, sexuality

Hester Scheurwater Videoworks: Volume 1
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These five short videos examine the relationship between the female body and the camera’s gaze.

“In Scheurwater’s universe, there is hardly any room left for human warmth. The only living being that evokes a sense of pity is a dog. And...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: body, feminism, performance, videoworks