Category Archives: historical

Vito Acconci #1

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Claim Excerpts (clip, 1971, 1MB, 29 secs)

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Face Off (clip, 1972, 1MB, 28 secs)

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Open Book (clip, 1974, 1MB, 31 secs)

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Two Track (clip, 1971, 1MB, 31 secs)

Four tiny (in every respect) but nonetheless great clips
from the fearless, troubling & wonderful Vito Acconci in his writer &
video artist phase.
The clips are from the Video Data Bank site where you’ll
be pleased to know you can with seminal
(perhaps not the best choice of word) pieces by
Acconci and others for a mere $3600…
Or you could go and check out more of his work on UBUWEB..
Some stuff about the later Acconci coming shortly.

Dieter Roth

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Dot (1960, 223KB, 40 sec.)

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Letter (1962, 1MB, 26 sec.)

Two films by the late Dieter Roth.

Sebastian Hernandez – DIY or Die #3 – A Month of Sundays

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A Month of Sundays (2009, 65 MB, 4:54 min)

Last &, in my view, the best of Sebastian Hernandez’ DIY or Die
series of documentaries, which we’ve been delighted to
be able to feature here in the past few weeks.
I found them all well made, engaging and informative.
This one I also found profoundly moving.
We look forward to featuring more of Sebastian’s work
in the not too distant future.

Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan

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subterranean homesick blues (1967-2005, 7.5MB, 1:37 min.)

Clip from –

15 Minutes – Marque Cornblatt

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15 Minutes – clip (1997, 8.2 MB, 5:09 min.)

Early clip made for the web.
Over the course of several weeks, guerrilla-style film and video crews followed
artists 24 hours a day, and along with actual news coverage, tell the tale
of taking the media and the art world hostage in an effort to manufacture
’15 Minutes’ of fame.
From Marque Cornblatt.

Brian Gibson – to the young, youth

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to the young, youth (195?/2008, 13 MB, 2:04 min)

Poignant & beautiful work from DVblog contributor Brian Gibson
gently & quirkily re-configuring footage shot by his late grandfather
on a European visit in the 50s.

Brian’s work is always striking, always affecting, but the secret extra
ingredient is the luminous intelligence underlying everything he does.

THE HERETICS – the story of the Women

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THE HERETICS (2009, 124 MB, 10:08 min)

THE HERETICS, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics

Owen O’Toole – Super8 films

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Piza (1982, 13 MB, 2:44 min)

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Frames (1985, 31 MB, 6:25 min)

Early experimental Super8 films by Owen O’Toole.

Short interview with him here.

Cut Piece – Yoko Ono

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Cut Piece (1965, 36.5MB, 9 min)

‘Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming.’
from Bedazzled .

Marianne Moore – The Fish

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The Fish (date unknown, 754KB, 1:12 min)


The Fish

wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like

an
injured fan.
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the

sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices