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.
   This program loosely organizes work by a number of artists who showed at Suitable Gallery a DIY exhibition space located in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, during its 5 year run between 1999 and 2004. It speaks more of a community of...
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: chicago art |
 How useful is personal testimony to History? The most abstract of all the works that focus on personal narrative in this program is certainly Lisa Steele’s Birthday Suit with scars and defects, in which the artist gently caresses every...
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: architecture, body, expedition/travel, family, feminism, middle east, politics, post-colonialism |
 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, media analysis, middle east, music, photography, politics, surveillance, war |
 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 This comprehensive anthology on the history of experimental and independent video is an essential tool for teachers, libraries, and researchers. Volumes 1 and 2 include over 16 hours of historic video on eight thematically curated programs,...
Collection: Curated Compilations, Box Sets Tags: feminism, gender, performance, video history |
 This comprehensive package on the history of experimental and independent video is an essential tool for teachers, libraries, and researchers. Volumes 1 and 2 include over 16 hours of historic video on eight thematically curated programs,...
Collection: Curated Compilations, Box Sets, Early Video Art Tags: activism, documentary, image processing, video history |
 Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight-program package on the history of experimental and...
Collection: Curated Compilations, Box Sets Tags: activism, art history, documentary, feminism, gender, image processing, performance, video history |
