Curated Compilations

Curated compilations are multiple titles programmed around a particular subject or theme. The majority of these were produced by the Video Data Bank.

American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs.... 1999 \| 1:17:00 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	Betraying Amnesia: Latin America Video... 1999 \| 1:16:50 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	CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies... 2008 \| 1:06:00 CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: body, dance, death and dying, gender, lgbt, performance, religion/spirituality, sexuality
Charged in the name of terror 2007 \| 59:02 Video portraits of activists, lawyers, artists, and people simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, accused by the U.S. government of being or aiding terrorists, in these great times. Official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: activism, middle east, politics	e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity... 2000 \| 1:55:37 e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity in Digital Environments is a two-part collection of videoworks created from 1982-2000 that explores the cyber environment and how it affects, expands, confuses, and involves female identity.... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: eastern european, feminism, future/technology	I Say I Am: Program 1 & 2 1998 \| 2:11:50 A collection of early feminist videos curated by Maria Troy, Associate Curator of Media at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. These video performances by eleven women artists, made between 1972 and 1980, sketch a time when feminism was a new... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: performance
I Say I Am: Program 1 1998 \| 1:00:05 Desire and the Home: Program 1 Challenging the dominant ways of making and critiquing art, feminist art practice in the 1970s stressed personal connections to materials and immediacy of context over formal abstraction. Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: feminism, performance	I Say I Am: Program 2 1998 \| 1:11:45 The tapes in Facing the Self: Program 2 are organized around the appearance of the female form, particularly the face. Using at times elaborate, but more often very limited, visual means and divergent visual and theatrical strategies,... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: feminism, performance	The New McLennium 1998 \| 2:02:50 As the expansiveness of video and its accompanying new technologies continues to transform our culture and our world, another historical tension is developing—not unlike the technological revolution seen at the last turn of the century. That... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, consumer culture, crime or violence, future/technology, surveillance, technology

American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs.... 1999 \| 1:17:00 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	Betraying Amnesia: Latin America Video... 1999 \| 1:16:50 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	CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies... 2008 \| 1:06:00 CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: body, dance, death and dying, gender, lgbt, performance, religion/spirituality, sexuality
Charged in the name of terror 2007 \| 59:02 Video portraits of activists, lawyers, artists, and people simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, accused by the U.S. government of being or aiding terrorists, in these great times. Official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: activism, middle east, politics	e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity... 2000 \| 1:55:37 e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity in Digital Environments is a two-part collection of videoworks created from 1982-2000 that explores the cyber environment and how it affects, expands, confuses, and involves female identity.... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: eastern european, feminism, future/technology	I Say I Am: Program 1 & 2 1998 \| 2:11:50 A collection of early feminist videos curated by Maria Troy, Associate Curator of Media at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. These video performances by eleven women artists, made between 1972 and 1980, sketch a time when feminism was a new... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: performance
I Say I Am: Program 1 1998 \| 1:00:05 Desire and the Home: Program 1 Challenging the dominant ways of making and critiquing art, feminist art practice in the 1970s stressed personal connections to materials and immediacy of context over formal abstraction. Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: feminism, performance	I Say I Am: Program 2 1998 \| 1:11:45 The tapes in Facing the Self: Program 2 are organized around the appearance of the female form, particularly the face. Using at times elaborate, but more often very limited, visual means and divergent visual and theatrical strategies,... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: feminism, performance	The New McLennium 1998 \| 2:02:50 As the expansiveness of video and its accompanying new technologies continues to transform our culture and our world, another historical tension is developing—not unlike the technological revolution seen at the last turn of the century. That... Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, consumer culture, crime or violence, future/technology, surveillance, technology