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Peggy Ahwesh Pistolary! Films and... 3 DVDs \| 2004 \| 3:34:42 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	Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving... 11 DVDs \| 2003 \| 1:07:21 Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, produced by Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, was conceived to make accessible the work of some of the most... Collection: Curated Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: conceptual art, visual art	Daniel Eisenberg POSTWAR: The Films of... 3 DVDs \| 2011 \| 3:23:53 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
Presidents and Elections 2004 \| 58:43 The commodification of the American presidency is examined and lampooned in Presidents and Elections, a compilation of work from the Video Data Bank collection. Interweaving humorous, disquieting, and surreal videos with actual... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: consumer culture, history, media analysis, politics, television	Radical Closure 5 DVDs \| 2010 \| 5:36:57 Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, and originally presented by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Radical Closure features works produced in response to situations of physical or ideological closure resulting from... Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, DVD Box Sets Tags: experimental film, landscape, middle east, politics	Radical Closure, Program 1: The Captives 1 DVD \| 2010 \| 1:29:02 This first program deals with stories of captivity. To start, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes by Walid Raad presents us with an imagined hostage presumably held in custody along with the American hostages in Lebanon during the 1980’s. Raad’s... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: autobiography, crime or violence, diary, documentary, environment, family, jewish, landscape, media analysis, middle east, politics, sexuality, war
Radical Closure, Program 2: War/The Visible... 1 DVD \| 2010 \| 1:10:45 This program presents different approaches to looking at war, and to using images of war. My Friend Imad and the Taxi is an unfinished work from two amateur filmmakers, both passionate about film, who lived in Beirut in the eighties when... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: european film/video, experimental film, family, future/technology, media analysis, middle east, music, photography, politics, surveillance, war	Radical Closure, Program 3: At the Border 1 DVD \| 2010 \| 58:55 Border situations have inspired writers, artists and filmmakers, particularly within the context of divisions and border control within the Middle East. Who draws the borders? What are the effects of imposing them, of imposing checkpoints? This... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: body, eastern european, family, landscape, middle east, war	Radical Closure, Program 4: Intensive Care 1 DVD \| 2010 \| 54:00 Named after Hatice Güleryüz’s haunting short film, with its disturbing yet iconic images, this program presents unsettling situations narrated with both considerable emotional investment and critical distance. In her work Intensive Care... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, body, eastern european, expedition/travel, history, middle east, music, performance, politics, youth/childhood