All

American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford
add to cart
add to wish list

This humorous selection of performance-oriented videos maps a trajectory between consumer society and psychoanalytic confession. HalfLifers perform two rescue missions using colored snack food and everyday objects as means towards transcendence....

 

Collection: Curated Compilations

Tags: animals, culture jamming, humor, mental landscape, performance

1 DVD | 2000 | 19:00
Animal Charm Videoworks: Volume 1
add to cart
add to wish list

This compilation is a fresh, witty, and compelling addition to video’s rich legacy of media deconstruction. Through appropriation and reassemblage, these intriguing works upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing by displacing its logic and...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: animals, chicago art, culture jamming, found footage, humor, media analysis, videoworks

1 DVD | 2000 | 26:00
Animal Charm Videoworks: Volume 2: Hot Mirror Mix
add to cart
add to wish list

A collection of videotapes from Animal Charm that reconfigure found footage, creating a compelling new world of odd juxtaposition and sinister strangeness.

 

 

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: found footage, videoworks

1 DVD | 2002 | 15:00
Animal Charm Videoworks: Volume 3, Computer Smarts
add to cart
add to wish list

Furthering the Animal Charm mission to undermine normality and create new stories from old, the videotapes in this collection seek to reinterpret and/or disrupt the flow of found footage narrative.

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: culture jamming, found footage, humor, videoworks

Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 1
add to cart
add to wish list

A compilation of five of Sadie Benning’s early works. In Jollies, Benning gives a chronology of her crushes and kisses, tracing the development of her nascent sexuality. Addressing the camera with an air of seduction and romance, Benning...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: lgbt, pixelvision, videoworks, youth/childhood

Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 2
add to cart
add to wish list

Volume 2 includes the pixelvision works made in 1992: A Place Called Lovely, It Wasn't Love, and Girlpower. A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from explicit...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: lgbt, pixelvision, sexuality, videoworks, youth/childhood

Sadie Benning Videoworks: Volume 3
add to cart
add to wish list

A collection of three remarkable works by Sadie Benning, produced between 1995 and 1998, including German Song, The Judy Spots, and Flat is Beautiful. Shot in black and white Super-8 film, German Song muses on a...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: consumer culture, feminism, lgbt, pixelvision, videoworks

Betraying Amnesia: Latin America Video Portraiture
add to cart
add to wish list

The videos in this program invite the viewer to reconsider assumptions about regional and personal identity by offering a wide sampling of portraits: a group portrait, a street portrait, a family portrait, a self-portrait, a portrait of...

 

Collection: Curated Compilations

Tags: latino/chicano

Between the Frames
add to cart
add to wish list

"Begun in 1983 and completed in 1992, Between the Frames offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

 

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: art collectors, art criticism, art history, artist spaces, interview