Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far

Martine Syms, Basma Alsharif, Matt Wolf, Akram Zaatari, Rosa Barba, Nicolas Provost, Doug Ischar, Steve Reinke

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Collection: Curated Compilations

Tags: African-American, Artist Portraits, Autobiography, Experimental Film, Future, Media Analysis, Memory, Middle East, Politics, Portrait, Self-Reflexive Video, Television, War

Future-Past-Present: A Journey Through the Twenty-Tens So Far

VDB TV: Decades
2010s: Future-Past-Present

An original program for VDB TV: Decades curated by Omar Kholeif.

"How can one even start to articulate the conditions that determine the artistic output of a decade that has started to experience such violent rupture? How does one give voice to a decade that began with the utopia of post-millennial transparency only to descend into a whirlpool of continual lies? ‘Post-truth’ is the accommodating misnomer that has been instrumentalized by news media to articulate the ‘alternative facts’ that have been propagated by the presidential campaign and policies of the newly-elected President of the United States, former reality TV star and real-estate mogul, Donald Trump."

— Omar Kholeif

This program is also available on VDB TV: Decades, a unique five-disc compilation that casts a distinctive eye over the development of video as an art form from the early 1970s to the present. This five-disc compilation was released during 2017 in celebration of the 40^th anniversary of the Video Data Bank. Each program was curated by an inspiring artist, scholar or media arts specialist who has focused on a specific decade, diving into the archive of the VDB to create personal, distinctive, and relevant programs, accompanied by original essays and texts. VDB TV: Decades is the perfect accompaniment to VDB’s iconic anthology Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-80, providing another essential tool for understanding the development of video and media art over the past five decades.

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Martine Syms

A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere

2015| 00:25:00

A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere is a two-channel video that examines the politics of television viewership, incorporating footage from a number of sources to create a plurivocal narrative. It…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: African-American, Media Analysis, Memory, Race, Television

Basma Alsharif

O, Persecuted

2014| 00:11:37

O, Persecuted turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film Our Small Houses into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: European Film/Video, Middle East, Sound, Memory, War

Matt Wolf

I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard

2012| 00:24:35

Matt Wolf returns to Joe Brainard's iconic poem I Remember (1970) in this videowork. His archival montage combines audio recordings of Brainard reading from the poem, as well as an interview with…

Collections: On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tags: AIDS/HIV, Artist Portraits, City, Documentary, LGBTQ, Poetry, Portrait

Akram Zaatari

Beirut Exploded Views

2014| 00:28:00

In a city post-apocalypse, young men communicate only through smart devices. They make home out of urban debris. They can’t speak to each other, but are still able to dream."Akraam Zaatari’s Beirut…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: City, Technology, War

Rosa Barba

The Empirical Effect

2010| 00:22:01

"Living on the slopes of the volcano Vesuvius is a strange contradiction: always in stress and yet also sleepy, waiting for what might happen. In close cooperation with the Osservatorio Vesuviano…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Environment, European Film/Video, History, Landscape, Nature

Nicolas Provost

Storyteller

2010| 00:07:40

Storyteller recomposes aerial shots from the Las Vegas casino skyline to create a slick, artificial world, reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of jewelry-like…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Architecture, Film or Videomaking, Image Processing, Landscape, Photography, Science

Doug Ischar

Alone With You

2011| 00:18:13

At the heart of Alone With You is the notion of impassioned avarice, i.e. the kind of motivated acquisitiveness that drives both erotic desire and obsessive collecting.Alone is built around two main…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Body, Found Footage, Gender, Photography, Sexuality, Visual Art, Art Collectors

Steve Reinke

Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week

2016| 00:14:01

Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week is the follow up to A Boy Needs a Friend. Reinke proposes a new holiday with the motto MORE RAGE LESS DISGUST: David Wojnarowicz Week and takes us through his seven…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Death and Dying, Found Footage, LGBTQ, Memory

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