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Tom Palazzolo Vivian Maier... 2012 \| 12:00 This 12 minute video by Tom Palazzolo and Chicago writer Jack Helbig tells the story of the recently discovered Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier. Though she was unknown in her lifetime, her extensive body of work is rewriting the history... Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art history, chicago art, city, documentary, history, outsider art, photography, portrait	Matt Wolf I Remember: A Film... 2012 \| 24:35 Modesty, whimsy, and clarity of design grace the work of Joe Brainard (1941-1994), an artist and writer whose evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem I Remember. Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: aids/hiv, city, documentary, lgbt, poetry, portrait	Sarah Conaway Two Dogs and a Ball 2001 \| 02:51 One of several videos the artist made with her brother while still in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Two Dogs and a Ball is a cover of William Wegman’s piece of the same title from the late 60’s. During the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: art history
Miller &... In/Out 1997 \| 11:04 Miller & Shellabarger, their breath made visible by the cold of a refrigerated room, exchange breath with each other. This title is only available as an excerpt on ... Collection: Single Titles Tags: autobiography, body, chicago art, gender, performance	Reed Anderson + 1 other Macho Shogun 2000 \| 07:21 ¡Macho Shogun! was created by Reed Anderson and Daniel Davidson over a single weekend some time in 2000. It's your basic monster-robot / destroy-city kind of video that we wanted to make when we were kids but never did. This... Collection: Single Titles Tags: chicago art, city, war, youth/childhood	Marc Schwartzberg Shooter 1999 \| 01:22 Shooter explores the idea of overt manliness, exposing it to be a flaccid gesture and an exercise in posturing. In the video, I assume the persona of a metal head wandering an urban landscape, making threatening yet empty gestures to... Collection: Single Titles Tags: chicago art, gender, humor
Kirsten Stoltmann I Spill My Guts... 2002 \| 01:30 Kirsten Stoltmann's video, I Spill My Guts Everyday for Nothing, is exactly that, a portrait of the artist spilling her Guts with a blank expression on her face. Again, Kirsten emerges as an empathetic anti-hero, who, in her own... Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, chicago art, humor	Charles Irvin O'Malley's... 2007 \| 05:33 In 1998 I made a sculpture of a decapitated head. I featured it in a photo and video. I thought of the head as a character whose adventures would be documented. The name O’Malley was inspired by Chicago’s Irish heritage (I was living in Chicago... Collection: Single Titles Tags: artist spaces, chicago art, city, death and dying	Paul Nudd Swamp Swamp 1999 \| 06:25 Swamp Swamp and Wurmburth are each comprised of a series of tightly cropped shots of small, hand-made table-top sculptures or "sets". Paint and many other materials that behave like paint (i.e. lotion, shampoo,... Collection: Single Titles Tags: art criticism, chicago art, performance