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Tom Waits making my Monday!

11.08.2010 Videos You'll Just Love

Tagged as: Tom Waits

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Alexis Smith: Life In America. Directed by Peter Kirby.

01.03.2010 Videos You'll Just Love
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Alexis Smith (b. 1949) Life In America (1991) Directed by Peter Kirby. For the past 20 years Alexis Smith’s mixed media work has explored primal American myths: the open road, the bad/good guy/gal, the quest for romance, and the search for paradise. This portrait of the artist explores the roots of her thought and work, [...]

Tagged as: Alexis Smith, Art, Mixed media

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Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum – A Video Portrait (1989)

01.01.2010 Videos You'll Just Love
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Chris Burden (b. 1946) A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum – A Video Portrait (1989) Directed and Edited by Peter Kirby Director of Photography: Dan Zimbaldi Co-production of Newport Harbor Art Museum Media Art Services Zona Productions length 27:45

Tagged as: Chris Burden, New Media Art, Performance Art, Peter Kirby

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Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1958-61)

12.31.2009 Videos You'll Just Love
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Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1958-61) Marie Menken (1910-1970) 16mm, color, sound, 4 min Original score by Teiji Ito. “A new sound version of this classic. It is a beautiful experience to see her fabulous shooting. The cutting is just as fabulous and is something for all to study; the new score by Teiji Ito is [...]

Tagged as: Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken, Teiji Ito, Video Art

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“People are the same all over, cut”

12.26.2009 Videos You'll Just Love
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Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman – Notes On Conceptualisms: eastcoast/westcoast (2009) “…The conversation is more presence by its absence…. the fact that the book is not being talked about leads me very much to suspect that its all anyone is talking about…” Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman – Notes On Conceptualisms: eastcoast/westcoast (2009) Vanessa Place [...]

Tagged as: Conceptual Poetry, Nancy Holt, Robert Fitterman, Vanessa Place

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Plaisir d’amour en Iran (1976) by Agnès Varda

12.25.2009 Videos You'll Just Love

Plaisir d’amour en Iran (1976) by Agnès Varda (b. 1928) 35mm, 1976 Starring: Valérie Mairesse, Ali Raffi 6min Made at a time when Iran had a seemingly revolving door for incoming European directors and bottomless funding for their projects, Plaisir d’amour en Iran is a short, sort of love story between a handsome Iranian (Ali [...]

Tagged as: Agnès Varda, Video Art

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Shana Moulton: The Mountain Where Everything Is Upside Down

05.01.2009 Videos You'll Just Love
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The Mountain Where Everything Is Upside Down by Shana Moulton I love this. Especially when the stuff on her bookcase follows her around. Makes me feel a little sheepish about my ‘mystical’ collections of folk art and books I have laying everywhere.

Tagged as: Shana Moulton, Video Art

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SMILES ON A SUMMER NIGHT

07.26.2005 Videos You'll Just Love
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Petra the Maid: And then the summer night smiled for the third time. Frid the Groom: [to the audience] For the sad, the depressed, the sleepless, the confused, the frightened, the lonely.

Tagged as: Film, Igmar Bergman

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