Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu May 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Experimental Films, Video and Performance Art

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

The 90's Vol. 1 1990

Examines social issues of the 90's. "People, places and ideas from around the world... fast-paced, entertaining, irreverent, funny and thought-provoking reports from the creative edge of the video age"--Container Opening montage -- Flying morning glory / Skip Blumberg -- Pat Boone and Harold Bredesen / Nancy Cain -- All your affections gone / Dion Payton -- Rock and roll controversy -- Albert -- Kim Long / Jimmy Sternfield -- The original TV -- Revolutionary video / Chuch Olin -- Lyndon Johnson and video from Everyone's channel / David Shulman -- Nixon registration -- Uncle Sam falls / Bill Stamets -- Ike for President -- Paid political message / Bill Tunnicliffe -- Advice ladies / Skip Blumberg -- On our own land / Appalshop -- Your tape here / Deedee Halleck -- Hare Krishna festival / Nancy Cain -- Red M&Ms / Bianca Miller -- Todd Alcott / Skip Blumberg -- Nana Asua Gyebi festival / Skip Blumberg -- Guns and women / Ricki Katz -- Wagon ho / Raunchy Bob Yup Yup -- Marlboro commercial -- Death in the West -- Love on $14 / Jim McCarthy and Steve Martini -- Laughing alligator / Juan Downey -- Prison PSA / Gary Glassman -- Crack fish / Byte By Byte -- Percy Mayfield / Michael Prussian and Starr Sutherland -- John Parker / Skip Blumberg -- Ain't gonna pee in the cup / Bianca Miller -- The real realness... / Scott Jacobs -- Richie Havens / Skip Blumberg -- Fontanos / Image Union -- Galaxy sweetheart / Daniel Thalmann -- Fish peace / Jim Jenkin -- Greater Yellowstone news / Phil Morton -- More than a game / Wild Onion Pictures -- Yuppie rap / Bill O'Neill -- Sid and Irv / Bart Lipton and Phil Patemite -- Erika Becker / Eddie Becker.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1603

After the revolution 1988-1989 2000

In this experimental, tongue-in-cheek feature made in the wake of the cataclysmic political changes of Hungary, the "hero" is a writer, who has shut himself off from the rest of the world. He is struggling to write a great novel. Every morning he sits down to write after feeding his cat and letting it out into the streets. The point-of-view of the film is that of the cat as perceived through the its eyes, ears and brain. As the writer reviews the material "shot" by the cat it becomes the basis of his novel.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

DANA 1581

Aleph 1982

A superimposition of images flow in a conflict of integrating rhythm.

1 videocassette (18 min.) :

MEDIA 2-679

Andy Warhol presents Flesh 1988

Joe takes to the streets and meets an artist with elaborate and hilarious theories of body worship, a couple of transvestites, a dumb ex-girlfriend, and a friend whose armpits have been burned by a flame thrower.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

DOUGLASS 82

Approaching narrative "there are problems to be solved" 1996

Three works use inventive formal armatures to stage epic stories through unpredictable performances.

1 videocassette (117 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3672

The attendant 1993

A homoerotic fantasy that takes place in an art museum.

1 videocassette (8 min.)

MEDIA 2-7328

Best of performance art I 1994

"In the Best of performance art I, you'll discover the totally unpredictable, absolutely amazing, inside-out world of Pat Oleszko, New York City's famous performance artist."--Container.

1 videocassette (76 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3771

Bildnis einer Trinkerin 1979

A woman takes a drunken sightseeing tour of Berlin in this exploration of the complexity of female identity.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6055

Bill Viola selected works 1986

Migration (1976) -- The reflecting pool (1977-79) -- Ancient of days (1979-81) -- Chott el-Djerid, a portrait in light and heat (1979)Four video art works, "each structured around a solitary movement, moment or phenomenon..."--External container.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-771

A bitter message of hopeless grief 1990

Performance of mechanized beasts made of machinery and animal parts. Violent images complete with explosions, industrial noises, and machines destroying each other.

1 videocassette (31 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2909

Border brujo 1990

By means of magical incantations performed at an altar, shows that language, in English or Spanish, is the border.

1 videocassette (52 min.) :

DANA 1742

The Brig 1986?

Mekas filmed this play about a Marine Corps prison on the stage of the Living Theatre after it had been closed down by the police for tax evasion. He and the cast slipped into the theater through a coal chute and made the film in five hours. The furious rhythms of the play convey the inhumanity of military discipline with the raw force of a battle document.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-757

Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman 1996

Part one opens with Akerman in her apartment describing the problems she encountered making this film. Part two lets Akerman's films speak for her, taking clips from her extensive filmography.

1 videocassette (64 min.)

MEDIA 2-6331

Chelovek s kino-apparatom 198-

Multi-leveled study of daily life in the Soviet Union. Enables the viewer to see the making of a film and at the same time the film that is being made. Noteworthy are the presence in the film of camera and cameraman, use of freeze frames, superimposures, trick shots.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-477

Chinamoon 1975

"...takes place in a brothel....Experimental and impressionistic in technique, the movie centers around the formally ritualized world of a room inhabited by four prostitutes."--Canyon Cinema catalog.

1 videocassette (15 min.) :

MEDIA D-191

Command performance Vito Acconci 1973

A video work by the artist himself.

1 videocassette (50 min.) :

MEDIA 38

Comment ca va? 1995

1 videocassette (78 min.) :

DANA 489

The Connection 1961

Film version of the play The Connection, by Jack Gelber. The play is about drug addicts waiting for a heroin dealer to bring the drug necessary for them to make their "connection." Based on the Living Theatre production, as directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck, the film was shot in a drug addict's apartment in New York City.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1485

The couple in the cage a Guatinaui odyssey 1993

Color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Gautinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico, are contrasted with archival footage and still photographs showing various occasions when indigenous persons were put on public display at circuses, sideshows and the like. Emphasis is placed on the response of the people viewing the Gautinaui couple.

1 videocassette (31 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1750 2-2376

Critiques of art and media as commodity and spectacle 1995

Examples of early attempts to use video to document performances or deliver manifestos about art as commodity.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3676

Dark side of the moon 2004

Inspired by the revelation of director Stanley Kubrick's close relationship with NASA on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lindon, director invents a scenario for the images of the moon landing, using hijacked archival footage, false documents, and authenic interviews out of context, leading the viewer realize how difficult it is to separate truth from manipulation in the media.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6892

David Holzman's diary 1969

On the theory that "cinema is truth 24 times a second" David Holzman sets out on a self-identity search, filming his life in diary form. The project gets out of control and overwhelms him; he alienates his friends, loses the woman he loves, and frightens himself.

1 videocassette (73 min.) :

MEDIA D-224

Decentralized communications projects 1995

Representative works of the effort to redefine the asymmetrical relationship between production/transmission and reception/consumption in American telecommunications systems.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3675

Dot 2 dot/tête à tête 1984

An experimental film which plays upon the contradictory desire for order and disorder, instituting a symbiosis between images of multiplicity, continuity, advancement, and those of deliniation, constriction, and finality.

1 videocassette (18 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5

Eat 1919

A film or artist Robert Indiana eating mushrooms and playing with a cat.

1 videocassette (ca. 25 min.)

MEDIA D-228

El Naftazteca Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D 1995

Performance art in which Gomez Pena plays the role of high-tech pirate-television veejay.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2369

Electra tries to speak 1982

Presents an experimental video interpretation of Electra, the eternal daughter, struggling for self-expression and seeking to resolve her confusion.

1 videocassette (27 min.) :

MEDIA 125

Electronic arts intermix 1983

A compilation of independant innovative and experimental film and video segments.

1 videocassette (50 min.) :

MEDIA 2-468

Emak-Bakia cinepoèm 1982?

Man Ray's early experiment in film which includes elements of cubism, Dadism and surrealism.

1 videocassette (14 min.)

MEDIA D-184

The Eternal frame 1976

To isolate concepts of image, personality, and event, the artists re-enact and videotape the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the reaction of those watching the re-enactment.

1 videocassette (24 min.) :

MEDIA 2-519

The Experimental avant garde series 198

Menilmontant -- The Charleston -- Folie du Dr. TubeMenilmontant is the story of the trials and tribulations of two orphaned girls living on the streets of Paris. The Charleston concerns a black astronaut who lands in Paris. There he and a young woman begin to dance a mean and lascivious Charleston. Folie du Dr. Tube is about a mad scientist who sits around in his lab experimenting and snorting some undefined white powder. The film's great use of mirrors and optical effects create weird and demented visions.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1472

Experimental films by Albert Gabriel Nigrin 1988

Aurelia (1985) -- Brainwashing (1987) -- Light pharmacy (1987) -- Spin me round (1986) -- Shake well (1986)1 videocassette (34 min.) :

MEDIA 2-624

Experimental films of Maya Deren 1986

Meshes of the afternoon -- At land -- A study in choreography for the camera -- Ritual in transfigured time -- The very eye of night -- Meditation on violence1 videocassette (VHS) (76 min.) :

MEDIA 2-244

Explorations of presence, performance, and audience 1996

Video artists investigate perceptual processes and strategies of performance, using the video monitor as a realtime "feedback" mirror, a time-base device for recording and reflection, and/or an intimately distanced theater.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3670

Eye of the beholder 197

Demonstrates, through a dramatic incident, the concept that no two people see the same situation in the same way. Designed to develop greater awareness of the pitfalls of subjective analysis, the need for objectivity, and the need for careful evaluation of all the facts. The story of an artist, who becomes involved in the killing of a beautiful girl, as he appears variously to a number of witnesses.

1 videocassette (25 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2597

The Festino of Adriano Banchieri 198-

The Festino of Adriano Banchieri presents a fully staged recreation of the madrigal comedy Festino, performed according to the composer's directions. Played with energy and flair by Ted Herstand, the composer Adriano Banchieri expounds his progressive philosophies of literature and art, and explains how his music shows the influence of commedia del arte and the new experiments in opera.

1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) :

MUSIC 156

The films of Jane Campion 1995?

Peel (1982 : 9 min.) -- Passionless moments (1984 : 13 min.) -- A girl's own story (1983 : 27 min.)Three short films from director Jane Campion. Peel concerns a family outing in Australia which results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence. Passionless moments is a series of ten short, whimsical films portraying the inner world of ordinary people. A girl's own story concerns girlhood, Beatlemania, and growing up in the sixties.

1 videocassette (49 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3188

The films of Wheeler Dixon 1974

Damage version I -- Numen lumen -- Stargrove -- Balloon sequence -- Children of lightFive short, experimental films dealing with favorite themes of the director, including destruction and the inevitable loss of adolescent innocence, enthusiam, and idealism children experience as they pass into adulthood.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA D-454

Food 1993

In a series of vignettes, Svankmajer animates grey-suited men as human vending machines, shows a pair of men at dinner devouring the contents of a restaurant, and takes us on a tour of a cannibalistic banquet.

1 videocassette (14 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2576

Frank film 1973

Combines animated sequences with two narrative sound tracks to create a series of complex, moving patterns which satirize contemporary middle-class life.

1 videocassette (9 min.) :

MEDIA D-395

French avant-garde shorts 1984

Anaemic cinema (1926) / Marcel Duchamp -- Ballet mechanique (1924) / Fernand L eger -- Menilmontant (1926) / Dmitri Kirsanov -- Life and death of a Hollywood extra (1928) / Robert Florey -- The Seashell and the clergyman (1928) / Germaine Dulac -- Pacific 231 (1944) / Jean Mitry -- La Jetee (1962) / Chris MarkerA compilation of seven French avant-garde shorts directed by Marcel Duchamp, Fernand L eger, Dmitri Kirsanov, Robert Florey, Germaine Dulac, Jean Mitry, Chris Marker.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-534

Fresh looks anti-racist film & videos 1993

Cassette 1. Richard Cardinal: Cry from the diary of a Metis child -- Out of the blue -- Good hair pretty hair curly hair -- A brighter moon Cassette 2. Brown women blonde babies -- Cindy -- Chinese Canadians: a search for identity -- The Noise -- Escapades of the one particular Mr. Noodle Cassette 3. Sally's beauty spot -- Maigre dog -- My father was an Englishman -- Native daughter -- Trait dúnion -- From another time comes one/into a new time becomes a brother -- Nelson is a boy -- Traces -- Under the tableA compilation of short films that deal with the issues of race and representation. Issues range from immigration history, self-image, Canadian folklore, native aspects and racism.

3 videocassettes (327 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2817 cassette 1 2-2818 cassette 2 2-2819 cassette 3

Fuses videorecording 198

1 videocassette (23 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1263

Le Gai savoir The Joy of learning 199

Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to plan for a new cinema.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5105

Gendered confrontations 1996

Art herstory / Hermine Freed (1974, excerpt 15 min.) -- Female sensibility / Lynda Benglis (1973, 14 min.) -- Always love your man / Cara DeVito (1975, 19 min.) -- The mom tapes / Ilene Segalove (1974-1978, 28 min.) -- Primal scenes / Linda Montano (1980, 11 min.) -- Nun and deviant / Nancy Angelo & Candace Compton (1976, excerpt 13 min.) -- Vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained / Martha Rosler (1976, excerpt 13 min.)Women use video to examine the lives of parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends to question their own relationship to what had been understood as history.

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3673

Gently down the stream 1992

Uses material from a succession of dreams to exorcise the mysterious ritualistic poer of repeating images.

1 videocassette (14 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3189

Germaine Dulac's Smiling Madame Beudet and The seashell and the clergyman 1922-1996

Smiling Madame Beudet: Portrays the life and dreams of a housewife in a small town who is married to a repulsive businessman. Seashell and the clergyman: A clergyman, committed by his calling to celibacy but in love with a romantic beauty, is afflicted by sexual torments he is unable to resolve.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6635

Global groove 1973

A collage of live action and various types of video art with the theme of music as a non-verbal communication medium. Includes Allen Ginsberg chanting, a Japanese Pepsi commercial, and John Cage.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 47

Gradiva [a film trilogy, 1982-1984 1990

Stripe tease [1983] / by Albert Nigrin with Irene Fizer, John Bartle -- Gradiva [1984] / by Albert Nigrin [with] Dennis Benson, Andrew Daddio -- Dot to Dot, Tete a tete [1985] / a film video by A. G. Nigrin with Irene Fizer, Dennis Benson, Andrew Daddio & Paul YoungThree experimental films by Albert Gabriel Nigrin.

1 videocassette (51 min.) :

MEDIA 2-80

The great mojado invasion (the 2nd US-Mexican War) 2001

Combination of Chicano wit and political vision create an ironic, post-millenial and postmodern look at the future of the Mexican-American living in the United States.

1 videocassette (26 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2370

Hatsu yume First dream 1981

The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year to be especially portentous. Bill Viola is a video artist concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations. Here he plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

MEDIA 2-851

Home of the brave 1986

Good evening -- Zero and one -- Excellent birds -- Old hat -- Drum dance -- Smoke rings -- Late show -- White lilly -- Sharkey's day -- How to write -- Kokoku -- Radar -- Gravity's angel -- Langue d'amour -- Talk normal -- Difficult listening hour -- Language is a virus -- Sharkey's nightRock singer and performance artist Laurie Anderson plays and sings accompanied by a host of her own lighting and visual effects.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1691

I do not know what it is I am like 1986

A series of vivid dramatic investigations that make explicit the process of cognition and the artist's ability to perceive beyond the logic of the obvious. Bill Viola expressses the belief that humans and beasts share an essential consciousness at the deepest level.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-756

Independents address television 1995

Illustrates how early documentary producers worked to establish relationships with broadcast television that would deliver their independently conceived and produced television to large broadcast audiences.

2 videocassettes (178 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3677 2-3678

Information withheld ; Shifters 1993?

Information witheld dramatizes the nature of signs and symbols in an ascending order of complexity, from traffic signals and hieroglyphs to Michelangelo's painting of The Madonna and child with St. Joseph. Shifters dismantles the narrative mode and distinguishes six recurrent themes, including Egypt, Napoleon, the scholars, the abuse of a cat and a melodrama. The subtext of this videotape concerns the oppositions of imperial power and the working class suggested through architecture emblematic of them.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :sd., col. ;

DANA 418

Interview & reading, Jonas Mekas with segments from the films of Mekas 1991

In interviews intercut with segments of his films, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas discusses his work in film and also the founding of Anthology Film Archives.

1 videocassette (50 min) :

DANA 1849

Investigations of the phenomenal world space, sound, and light 1995

Short film clips demonstrate the artists' attempts to extend structural and process-oriented investigations of space, sound and light in the video medium.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3671

Invocation Maya deren 1987

Discusses the life and work of avante-garde film-maker Maya Deren.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1285

Jane Comfort 1998

An excerpt from Jane Comfort's performance piece Underground River. Also features an interview with her about the premise of the work, which are the visions a girl in a coma.

1 videocassette (29 min.) :

DOUGLASS 230

Joseph Beuys' public dialogue 1974

"Video of the famed German artists's first public appearance in the U.S. during which he outlines his political and artistic philosophies"--Cassette label.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

DANA 918

Kino-Pravda Enthusiasm 199-

Kino-Pravda (1922, 14 min., b&w) -- Enthusiasm (1931, 67 min., b&w)Kino-Pravda: Consists of a record of Soviet life edited into a unique genre of mixed documentary, animation and reviews and provides a record of the Revolution's social achievements. Enthusiasm: Celebrates the enthusiasm with which the peasants and miners of the Don River basin in Russia fulfilled their first five-year plan quotas following the October Revolution.

1 videocassette (81 min.) :

MEDIA D-452

Koyaanisqatsi life out of balance 1983

Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola, this creation of director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass seems to flash by your eyes but lingers in your mind.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA. MUSIC 2-1356 166

L'Age d'or 199

Surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire.

1 videocassette (62 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3051

L'age d'or 1979

Two lovers declare war on a bourgeois society intent on thwarting the fulfillment of their desire. The film is a statement on the nature of the Church, the Establishment, and middle-class morality.

1 videocassette (63 min.) :

DANA 339

Lapis An abstract art film composed of images produced by an analog computer.

1 videocassette (10 min.) :

MEDIA D-372

LEtoile de mer 198

Performer Note: Robert Desnos, Alice "Kiki" Prin, Andre de la RivièrePortrays one man's difficulty in becoming committed to a woman. A starfish symbolizes his yearning for sincere beauty without hidden, destructive qualities.

1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA D-430

Lions love 1996?

Ragni, Rado and Viva play themselves, waiting for their big Hollywood break and casually drifting into a ménage a trois. Varda captures the quirky, laid back lifestyle of 1960's Los Angeles as her characters revel in a cool, hang-loose existence.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2835

Lumiére et compagnie Lumiére & Company 1996

To commemorate the Centennial of the Lumiere Brothers' first motion picture, 40 of the world's leading international filmmakers created their own one minute Lumiere film. Using the restored original camera, each director offered his own signature style to the film. These exciting eclectic shorts are combined with intriguing interviews with the filmmakers.

1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3478

Magick lantern cycle 1986

v. 1. Fireworks (1947, 14 min.). Rabbit's moon (1950, 7 min.). Eaux d'artifice (1953, 13 min.) -- v. 2. Inauguration of the pleasure dome (1954, 38 min.) -- v. 3. Kustom kar kommandos (1965, ca. 5 min.). Puce moment (ca. 5 min.). Scorpio rising (1963, 28 min.) -- v. 4. Invocation of my demon brother (1969, 11 min.). Lucifer rising (1970-1980, 28 min.)A collection of short experimental films created by Kenneth Anger.

3 videorecordings (148 min.) :

DOUGLASS. DOUGLASS. DOUGLASS. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 87 cassette 1 87 cassette 2 87 cassette 3 2-292 2-293 2-294

Man Ray films 1998

Retour à la raison (1923, 2 min.) -- Emak Bakia (1926, 20 min.) -- L'étoile de mer (1928, 15 min.) -- Mysteres du château du Dé (1929, 25 min.) -- 10 home movies (b&w, silent): Rue Campagne-Premiere (1923-1929); Corrida (1929); Autoportrait ou Ce qui manque a nous tous (1930); Poison (1933-1935); L'Atelier du Val-de-Grace (1935); Course landaise (1937); La Garoupe (1937); Ady (1938); Dance (1938); Juliet (1940)"This videocassette includes the four films which established Man Ray as a major figure of the 1920s avant-garde cinema...as well as eleven [sic] short 'autobiographical' films"--Container.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

DANA 1471

Manhatta 198

An impressionistic short film about New York seen in terms of its geometric architecture and the movement patterns of ships, people, and so forth. Based on a poem by Walt Whitman.

1 videocassette (8 min.) :

MEDIA D-56

Mass for the Dakota Sioux 1964

A film mass which embodies a contradiction between the form of the mass, traditionally a celebration of life, and the theme of death.

1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.)

MEDIA D-288

Meredith Monk composer, singer, dancer, film-maker, choreographer, performance artist 1991

Dolman music -- Travelling -- Quarry -- Ellis Island -- Turtle dreams"Meredith Monk is an artist of many media. In her exploration of the human voice, she has transcended the boundaries of vocal song. She is also her own composer, choreographer and film-maker, blending all these into a unique style and content of performance which suggests scurrying creatures in primeval landscapes. Here, with her vocal group, she performs Dolman Music, Travelling, Quarry, Ellis Island and Turtle Dreams."--Container.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DOUGLASS 217

Meredith Monk's Ellis Island 1983

Ellis Island is a work of stunning visual and emotional impact, a haunting recreation of America's role in the great immigration movements.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-287

Methodology the psychologist and the experiment 1975

Shows two examples of controlled manipulation with test groups in the laboratory in order to explain the basic logic of experimentation in psychology.

1 videocassette (31 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2040

/music/consciousness/gender 1996

"This event desires to create a space inviting shared contemplation of such person-centered matters as the ontologies of consciousness transformation, and of the evolving introconstruction of gender identity, as refracted through the lenses of music-perceptual and music-expressive phenomena, and in particular in the perspective of one person's insular cognitive history"--Container.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MUSIC 295

Numero deux Aumero deux = Number two 1995

Godard's exploration of the modern family unit and how it suffers in the computerized, capitalistic world.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 488

Performance of video imaging tools 1995

Examples of the artists' inquiries into the development and application of analog and eventually digital tools that translated energy and time into video imaging systems.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3674

Performance the living art 1988

An introduction to and overall view of performance art. Includes some history of performance set in futurism. Focuses on major contemporary contributors to performance art. Discusses issues--what is performance art, what has it been and what is the perspective of each individual artist.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2249

Persistence of vision Volume 1, Monitoring the media 1989

Why I got into TV / Ilene Segalove -- Television delivers people / Richard Serra, Carlota Faly Schoolman -- Three transitions / Peter Campus -- The President's world / Gorilla Tapes -- Excerpts and euphoria / Edward Mowbray -- The pastrami sandwich / Ilene Segalove -- Dragnet kiss / Ilene Segalove -- Composite news composite / Nancy Burson -- The eternal frame / Ant Farm, T. R. UthcoThe artists on this film are not part of the insular world of the television industry. Instead, they use video to expose television as an exclusive tool of commerce and state power. Some of these works are strictly analytical; others are variations or parodies of TV genres. But, by content shifts or aesthetic ruptures, all of them undermine the narrow use of television as a measure of marketing.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1599

Persistence of vision Volume 2, Outside the lines 1989

Sunstone / Ed Emshwiller -- The space between the teeth / Bill Viola -- Cartes postales / Cahen, Huter and Longuet -- Sabda / Dan Reeves -- East/West / Su-Chen Hung -- Cartes postales / Cahen, Huter and Longuet -- Arcade / Lyn Blumenthal, Carol Ann Klondarides, Ed Pashke -- Ich Mache die Schmerz-Probe / Marcel Odenbach -- Fetishistic scopophilia / Alicia Nogueira -- Videoflashes / Michel Jaffrennou -- Ear to the ground / John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald, David van TieghemThis is the second volume in the three-volume series, Persistence of vision. It is a collection of video art pieces that explore the intrinsic aesthetic of the video medium.

1 videocassette (59 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1600

Persistence of vision Volume3, New narrative 1989

Accidents in the home / Graham Young -- Chanoyu / Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Ivekovic -- The West is alive (Der Westen lebt) / Klaus vom Bruch, Heike-Melba Fendel -- L.A. nickel / Branda Miller -- Dogs (Back and forth) / William Wegman -- Le Train / Francois Girard -- The woman who went too far / Colin Campbell -- Possibly in Michigan / Cecilia ConditThis is the third volume in the three-volume series, Persistence of vision. This volume is a collection of video art pieces in which some new storytellers continue to expand the vocabulary of narrative through the innovative use of audio-visual forms.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1601

The Pleasures of uninhibited excess three machine performances by Survival Research Laboratories, 1989-1990 1991

Illusions of shameless abundance -- Artspace -- A carnival of misplaced devotionThree mechanized presentations, each consisting of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices with humans present only as audience or operators.

1 videocassette (46 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2910

Portrait of Jason 198-

An autobiography of Jason which tells how he survived a life of street hustling.

1 videocassette :

MEDIA 2-800

Praise house 1991

The visual images presented in this film illustrate "spirituality and the gift of artistry in three generations of African-American women"--Prologue.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5068

A propos de Nice 198

Vigo examines the French resort city of Nice while mixing experimental technique with social and poetic vision.

1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA D-426

Pull my daisy 1997?

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3829

Rare Dutch and Belgian experimental program 1996

The mystic lamb by Van Eyck / directed by Andre Cauvin ([1939?]) (ca. 9 min.) -- Rain / by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken (1929) (ca. 12 min.) -- New earth / directed by Joris Ivens ([1941?]) (ca. 23 min.) -- The bridge / directed and photographed by Joris Ivens (1927-1928) (ca. 12 min.) -- De parapluie = The umbrella / productie en regie, Kees Brusse ([1961?]) (ca. 31 min.)Video demonstrates early documentary films from the Netherlands.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6164

Rummage 1989

An experimental documentary film featuring the infamous Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills Rummage Sale held in Far Hills, N.J. every first weekend in May and October.

1 videocassette (25 min.) :

MEDIA 2-750

Le Sang d'un poète 198

A surrealistic allegorical myth, full of visual symbolism and abstract effects, about an artist who sacrifices himself to his art.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

DANA 336

Le Sang d'un poete The Blood of a poet 1983

A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-155

Selected works, 1970-1978 1986?

A collection of short, funny vignettes that demonstrate why Wegman has been called the "Buster Keaton of video." Often utilizing the talents of his assistant (and sometimes pet), the dog Man Ray, Wegman reveals a cunning and unusual sense of humor.

1 videocassette (20 min.) :

MEDIA 2-269

Selected works reel 4 1972

A collection of short pieces by the video-artist himself.

1 videocassette (20 min.) :

MEDIA 39

Shadows of forgotten ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv 1994

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 540

Shirin Neshat the woman moves 2004

An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experiences.

1 videodisc (42 min.)

DANA 254

Sink or swim 1990

Zygote -- Y chromosome -- X chromosome -- Witness -- Virginity -- Utopia -- Temptation -- Seduction -- Realism -- Quicksand -- Pedagogy -- Oblivion -- Nature -- Memory -- Loss -- Kinship -- Journalism -- Insanity -- Homework -- Ghosts -- Flesh -- Envy -- Discovery -- Competition -- Bigamy -- Athena -- Atalanta -- AphroditeA compelling account of the immutable, highly charged relationship between a father and daughter. A young girl narrates twenty-six short stories which recount memories of a father she both fears and admires.

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MEDIA 2-3198

Stone circles 1983

An animated and live action experimental film shot on location at Stonehenge in England.

1 videocassette (12 min.) :

MEDIA D-388

Strange music of Nam June Paik 1975

Global groove -- Medium is the medium -- Paik meets BeethovenPresents Nam June Paik's performance and video art with Charlotte Moorman, John Cage's music and performance.

1 videocassette (27 min.) :

DANA. DANA 933 933

Terrain vague an experimental film 1988

1 videocassette (22 min.) :

MEDIA 2-625

Three short tapes 1973

A series of three works by video-maker, Peter Campus. The episodes are experimental in nature and point out some of the possibilities of the relatively new medium of video.

1 videocassette (29 min.) :

MEDIA 45

Three songs about Lenin leader of the oppressed peoples of the world 1991

Three songs about Lenin shows Lenin as revealed through the eyes of the Russian people, represented by three songs.

1 videocassette (62 min.)

MEDIA 2-6621

Thriller 1979

An experimental film which asserts that the fare of women in 19th century art forms, typified by the character Mimi in the opera La Boheme, was a requirement of dramatic conventions suited to a patriarchal social order.

MEDIA D-313

Towers open fire and other films 1989

Towers open fire -- The cut-ups -- Bill & Tony -- William buys a parrotWilliam S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin met Ian Sommerville and Antony Balch during their Beat Hotel days in Paris in 1958-59 when Burroughs' Naked lunch was published. These films convey the consciousness of that period in the visual language of four of the artists that defined it. Balch attempts to reinterpret Burrough's writing as cinema.

1 videocassette (35 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2046

Tribulation 99 alien anomalies under America Every disaster, man-made or natural, every assassination, and every period of political turmoil, past, present and future, is attributed to the work of aliens living beneath the earth's crust.

1 videocassette (48 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3930

Two lies 1989

Story of two young Chinese-American girls and their relationship with their mother who is having plastic surgery performed to alter her oriental features.

1 videocassette (25 min.) :

DANA 828

Un chien Andalou 2000

Un chien Andalou. Version intégrale sonorisée. A surrealistic movie written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies and dreams between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Land without bread, original title: Las Hurdes : tierra sin pan, was filmed in Las Hurdes region of Spain, April-May, 1932. Buñuel's only documentary film, portrays the everyday lives of indigent peasants in one of Spain's most desolate regions.

1 videocassette (43 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3040

Video against video 1975

Artist Doug Davis discusses and illustrates his ideas and work in video.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 46

Volumen 1998

Performer Note: Björk Contents: Human behavior -- Venus as a boy -- Play dead -- Big time sensuality -- Violently happy -- Army of me -- Isobel -- It's oh so quiet -- Hyperballed -- Possibly maybe -- Miss you -- Jóga -- Bachelorette -- HunterCollection of music videos by the European artist.

1 videocassette (64 min.)

DANA 2046

Waveforms video/Japan 1990?

Mt. Fuji/Ko Nakajima -- Flow (3), part 2/Shinsuke Ina -- Koto-Buki/Tetsuo Sekimoto (1985) -- Listen the body/Yoshiomi Yamaguchi (1986) -- My Gaijin Tengoku/Marilyn Oliveros, Byron Black (1984) -- Alley of Alley/Akira Matsumoto (1984) -- Japanese Syllabary/Yoh Hayafuji (1984)A collection of the work of video artists in Japan that at once represents a diversity of expression, and indicates three themes which underscore Japanese sensibility: nature, the persistence of cultural traditions and the embracing of new technology.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1627

Wild gunman 1998?

Wild gunman (20 min.)--Rocketkitkongokit (30 min.)Wild gunman--From the opening loop of repeated exhortations to "shoot" and continuing through a frentic montage of clips from feature films, commercials, documentaries and newsreels the emphasis is on society's eventual self- destruction. Rocketkitkongokit--Stylistic portrayal of the history of the newly established country of Zaire (Congo Democratic Republic). The narrative follows the rise of dictator Joseph Mobutu, the establishment of the German rocket program and internal rebellions with external influences. Ends with a fictional climax.

1 videocassette (50 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3931

Window water baby moving 1959

Stan Brakhage's personal documentary of the natural childbirthing of his first daughter.

1 videocassette (12 min.)

MEDIA D-407