Susan Mogul

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Since 1973 artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul has developed a body of work that is autobiographical, diaristic, and ethnographic. Her work addresses the human dilemma of self in relationship to family, community and the culture at large. Mogul’s videos of the early 1970s, as well as her recent documentaries, are often featured in exhibitions, publications, and college courses that examine the histories of video art, feminist art, and contemporary documentary.

“The conflict in forging one’s own identity in relation to a group — be it family or the culture at large — has been an underlying theme in my work. I was revealing attempts to define my self-image through humorous autobiographical anecdotes. In them I measured myself against influential role models.” 
— Susan Mogul

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
A Piece of Work 2001 6 minutes Single Titles
Babeldom 2012 9 minutes Single Titles
Big Tip, Back Up, Shut Out 1976 10 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Dear Dennis 1988 5 minutes 18 seconds Single Titles
Dressing Up 1973 7 minutes 6 seconds Early Video Art, Single Titles
Driving Men 2008 1 hour 8 minutes Single Titles
Everyday Echo Street: A Summer Diary 1993 32 minutes Single Titles
Feminist Studio Workshop Videoletter 1975 30 minutes On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Five East 1991 8 minutes Single Titles
Home Safe Home 1997 6 minutes Single Titles
I Say I Am: Program 1 & 2 1998 2 hours 11 minutes 50 seconds Curated Compilations
I Say I Am: Program 2 1998 1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds Curated Compilations
I Stare at You and Dream 1997 56 minutes 40 seconds Single Titles
Laurel and Susan 1973 3 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Live in San Diego 1977 18 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Looking in the Mirror, I See Me — Early Women’s Video Art from the Video Data Bank Collection 2018 1 hour 12 minutes 24 seconds Compilations, Curated Compilations
Mogul is Mobil Volume III Redux 1975 4 minutes 38 seconds Single Titles
Mom's Move 2018 25 minutes Single Titles
Prosaic Portraits, Ironies and Other Intimacies 1991 46 minutes Single Titles
Sing, O Barren Woman 2000 10 minutes 35 seconds Single Titles
Susan Mogul Videoworks: The Woman's Building 2014 39 minutes Single Artist Compilations, On Art and Artists
Susan Mogul's Woman's Building 2010 9 minutes On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Take Off 1974 10 minutes 30 seconds Early Video Art, Single Titles
The Electric Mirror: Reflecting on Video Art in the 1970s 2017 Compilations, Curated Compilations
Untitled (Menses) 1973 1 minute 10 seconds Early Video Art, Single Titles
VDB TV: Decades 2017 7 hours 47 minutes 37 seconds Box Sets, Compilations, Curated Compilations
Waiting at the Soda Fountain 1980 24 minutes Single Titles