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Ilene Segalove

Born 1950 - Los Angeles, California

Ilene Segalove was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. She studied communication arts at Loyola University and received a degree in fine arts from the University of California in Santa Barbara. Working in video since 1972, when she bought a Portapak from Nam June Paik's girlfriend, Ilene Segalove was initially, "offended by [video's] invasive quality and seduced by its power." A self-described "child of Beverly Hills," Segalove began pointing the camera at "familiar things," producing quasi-documentaries about her family (The Mom Tapes, 1973-75) and American TV culture (TV is OK, 1976).

Segalove was a member of the group Telethon, with Billy Adler, John Margolis, and Van Schley, which designed installations featuring  commercial TV collages, and guest edited an issue of Radical Software, "The TV Environment" (2:2, 1971).


Available Titles by Ilene Segalove

Title Year Runtime Collection
Coal Confession 1972 00:02:43 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Five True Stories 1980 00:06:17 Early Video Art, Single Titles
I Remember Beverly Hills 1980 00:28:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Life Saver Mandala 1981 00:01:59 Single Titles
Mom in Famous Women 1978 00:03:52 Single Titles
The Mom Tapes 1974 00:26:52 Early Video Art, Single Titles
More TV Stories 1985 00:14:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
My Dad Triptych 1980 00:05:55 Single Titles
My Puberty 1987 00:11:00 Single Titles
The Riot Tapes 1984 00:30:00 Single Titles
The Mom Tapes (Excerpt) 1974 00:03:39 Single Titles
What is Business? 1982 00:29:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Whatever Happened to MY Future? 2012 00:11:21 Single Titles
Whatever Happened to the Future? 1987 00:17:00 Single Titles
Where is God? The Dive 1974 00:02:44 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Why I Got Into TV and Other Stories 1983 00:10:00 Single Titles
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