Actions speed up, slow down, and run at regular speed. The usual props are there, as is a wet dog. Subtle nuances are revealed as the behavior of the anxiety-laden protagonists is rendered, for once, in real-time.

Shot in December 1969, this video documents a live performance by the Incredible String Band at the Fillmore East, NYC.

This two-part episode features Glenn Belverio and Duncan Elliott participating in an ACT UP demonstration at President George Bush’s summer house in Kennebunkport, Maine, interviewing activists and documenting this historic event.

Asian Studs Nightmare examines the racial politics behind the hit U.S. television show STUDS. Fulbeck frantically recalls somewhat fictional nightmares of Asian male identity.

"How can the distinction between "man" and "machine" still be made given today's technology? In modern weapons technology the categories are on the move: intelligence is no longer limited to humans.

The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find fortune in alluvial gravel are part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north.

An interview that charts the activities of the Polish critic and curator Sebastian Cichocki. The dialogue is centered around, particularly, the difficulties of operating in a peripheral, Eastern European artworld context.

Filmed in June 1998 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and produced by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts/Dance Collection. Breath is a creative archive project of Eiko & Koma’s living installation of the same

alexia is an experimental video about word-blindness and metaphor.

Zaatari’s contribution to Lebanon’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2013. This video offers a portrait of a public school and a tribute to those refusing illegal military orders.

...a meditation on a familiar New York city space in which memories, fantasies and the maniacal intertwine.

3 Church Walk is a film made with writer Jonathan P. Watts and sound composer Simon Limbrick about the empty and neglected Suffolk house of modernist architect H. T. ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown.

Weaving Stories While Walking, a reading-performance film by Sónia Vaz Borges and Mónica de Miranda, interweaves multiple accounts from members of the resistance against the colonial powers in Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Angola, and Portugal.

D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a hyper-war waged on over 20 million children in the United States. Despite overwhelming evidence of its educational ineffectiveness, D.A.R.E.

A performer walks through footage of a pigeon on rooftop of Hotel Principal in Oaxaca. The corporeal form takes flight.

Pat Ward Williams’s socially charged works confront issues of race, often dealing specifically with African American history and identity.

Interviewed by Colin Westerbeck.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1987.

When everyone has forgotten the romantic refrains of the Internationale sung in different languages, Pablito, a blue front Amazon parrot, capable of living to 100 years old, will remember.

"If there's something big, big that you want to reach for, you begin by dreaming." —Ivonne and Ivette

A voyage through a California Christmas that begins in the turd-smeared streets of San Francisco and ends in a botanical wonder of ethnic endurance and faith. A journey that incorporates pelicans, palaces, and platters of plenty.

Juliana Huxtable was born in Texas and studied at Bard College, NY.

Tochka depicts a journey made by anonymous group through a rough landscape. After many hardships, they arrive at a shallow ravine where they decide to build a rickety wooden bridge so that they can cross to the other side.

This is an agitprop piece about the reflection and dispersion of an eroded slogan and claim: Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom).

Prestidigitation before the age of the pixel. Very lively stop motion and open shutter piece, shot on Super 8, with all effects done in camera – but transferred to video for ease of viewing.

Using a Super-8 camera, Henricks employs time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment.

This feature-length video follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve.

Take a peek at scenes extracted from a videomaker's life.

In Shadow and Substance, cloth as a motif and a total eclipse of the sun are metaphors used to suggest the intersection of the spiritual and physical worlds and the moods, emotions, and colorations that these int

Video artist meets a handsome and enigmatic Marlboro Man; video artist gets a sexually transmitted disease.

Nebula is a hallucinogenically immersive spectacle: a complex, long-form audio-visual composition, which pays playful homage to science fiction fantasies.

In this video, Glennda and Judy LaBruce (Bruce LaBruce) visit the auction house Christie's East on New York's Upper East Side to view Judy Garland memorabilia that is being auctioned off.

Budlong Memorial Middle School is heating up.

In turns funny, disturbing, and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a tape about love, relationships, and the joy and banality of sex in the late 20th Century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs.

This European flavored melodrama depicts a fictional country of refined manners and debased desires that explode into chaos, sending its prodigal son into the pit of 20th Century technology.

... There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

— Mike Kuchar

Revived as part of the Retrospective Project, White Dance is the first piece that Eiko & Koma performed in America.

John Cage’s compositions and performances have had a profound influence on generations of musicians and artists. In this tape, he initiates For the Third Time as author Richard Kostelanetz interviews him.

A poetic meditation on distance, Come Closer is a short and peripatetic film, casting an affective web between the locations of Lisbon, San Francisco and Brazil.

Sensemayá is a shamanic composition, an ecstatic dance, and ritualistic spell which distills and exudes the kinetic motion of the ancient snake that inhabits our present dislocated times.

Feedback-generated computer animations wiped and keyed with images and sounds from electronic oscillators via an analog video switcher.

Eric Siegel, a child prodigy in electronics, built his first TV set out of scrap parts at the age of 14.

If second lives have grown into the landscape of social network space and avatars engage a full range of human emotions and experience, it follows that they would eventually encounter existential questions.

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975.

Private photos of an exploitation film matron (Doris Wishman) in action highlight this collection of summer fare that features a wide range of image-makers pursuing their dreams.

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, who comprise the UK artist duo Semiconductor, make moving image works that explore the material nature of our world and question our place in the physical universe.

In a visually difficult construction, Silver plays with the viewer’s ability to focus and take in an entire image.

The city of San Francisco is awash with talent and some fine eating places too. In this seaport escapade the viewer is detoured by the smell of lamb chops and the sound of loose tongues vibrating with vitality.

In imaginary landscapes where trees talk and frogs turn to handsome princes, Pizzly Bear is a story of a cross between a Grizzly and Polar Bear.

"Actions, states, one B+W video camera, the Paik Abe Colorizer, a video switcher. The two states, a b a b, I put my hand in the camera frame and saw a colored hand shifting.