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1 DVD | 2011 | 27:01
Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
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Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. 

Available for Exhibition, with...

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: activism, blu-ray, city, documentation, politics

1 DVD | 2011 | 39:16
Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series One
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Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. 

AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITION, WITH...

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: activism, blu-ray, city, documentation, politics

4 DVDs | 2012 | 2:35:28
Half-Lies: The Videoworks of Ximena Cuevas
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Video Data Bank is proud to present the wonderful work of prolific video artist Ximena Cuevas in our latest DVD box set, Half-Lies: The Videoworks of Ximena Cuevas. This four volume box set features 25 videos by the award-winning artist, spanning...

 

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

Tags: consumer culture, death and dying, expedition/travel, family, feminism, humor, latino/chicano, media analysis, performance, sexuality, youth/childhood

Halflifers: Action Series
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The Action Series finds our alienated heroes in desperate attempts to communicate and find a way out of their endless crisis scenarios. The two pieces share a domestic setting, though this is no comfortable home away from home. Rather,...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: performance

HalfLifers: Rescue Series
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Rescue Series is a HalfLifers project that attempts to articulate deep-seated anxieties about the loss of functionality or purpose through a series of spontaneous “crisis re-enactments.” As these fears overwhelm the psyche, the simplest...

 

Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: humor, performance

2 DVDs | 2011 | 2:07:30
HalfLifers: The Complete History, 1992 - 2010
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HalfLifers is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends and fellow media artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony M. Discenza. Embracing a gestural improvisation-based performance style and championing a rigorously low-fi...

 

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

Tags: body, death and dying, food, future/technology, humor, media analysis, performance

Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 1
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"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

Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2
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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, lgbt, sexuality, videoworks

Louis Hock: The Mexican Tapes
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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