When Video Came
By Ralph Vituccio & Andres Tapia-Urzua
A fascinating look at the history of video art from the critical perspective of seminal media artists in the U.S.
Visually stimulating, this documentary portraits the development of the technological image and its influence in our culture as well as the complex relationship that exist between the independent producer and the established mass-media.
Featuring: John Hanhardt, Martha Rosler, Dara Birnbaum, Chip Lord, Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, William Wegman, Gene Youngblood, Doug Hall, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Pier Marton, Coco Fusco, George Kuchar and more.
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Total Dur:
42min. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 75.00
Institutions: $ 150.00
MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR
by Camilla Benolirao Griggers & Sari Lluch Dalena
A film about the Philippine-American War: Most people remember Vietnam, but many have no recollection of the war in the Philippines. Between 1899 and 1913, over one million Filipinos died, yet many have no memory of the war or why it was fought.
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Total Dur:
60min. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 75.00
Institutions: $ 150.00
Electronic Cinema II
By Andres Tapia-Urzua
A poignant and fascinating look at cultural identity where social alienation, high-tech environments and the poetics of globalization are represented in sharp and accessible ways.
Includes: Mirror Man, Loverdosis and Technology of Repetition. Experimental cinema always looks great when the imagination is its most valuable asset!
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Total Dur:
110min. with English and Spanish subtitles. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 50.00
Institutions: $ 100.00
Electronic Cinema
By Andres Tapia-Urzua
A meaningful, challenging and entertaining trip into the poetics of biculturalism in America. A revealing statement on the complexities surrounding the notion of "self image" or "identity" in a transnational context. A definite alternative to the American culture industry's representational forms. Includes the legendaries "Speed", "Spanglish" and "UP".
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Total Dur:
50min. with English and Spanish subtitles. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 50.00
Institutions: $ 100.00
F FORUM
By Camilla Benolirao, Caroline Koebel,
Carolina Loyola-Garcia, Tara Fallaux and Adrienne Wehr
An intriguing collection of films and videos by five female artists, exhibiting a diversity of styles ranging in scope from psycho-political drama to victorian dance-schizophrenia.
F Forum is an encouraging testimony of female-poetic-continuity; a fragmented history where the subjective imagination has always fought to tell a story.
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Total Dur:
50min., Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 50.00
Institutions: $ 100.00
SELECTED VIDEO WORKS
By Carolina Loyola-Garcia
www.carolinaloyolagarcia.netA selection of works from Carolina Loyola-García containing the videos SURvivors, The Other Land, Algeria and Salt on the Face. Through a poetic and diverse use of video and animation techniques Carolina approaches various themes such as migration, north/south imperialism, childhood and Flamenco rhythm. An intense and beautiful display of "horizontal" sensibility expressed in a traditional vertical world.
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Total Dur:
60min. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 40.00
Institutions: $ 80.00
Zones Unknown
By Dave Ryan
Dave Ryan explores intimate ways in which we can recreate -we can video- our immediate reality. In "Zones Unknown", a diverse collection of earlier and recent works, he boldly places himself at the threshold of poetic representation, seducing us into looking at-and-from inside the medium to critically appreciate its essence.
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Total Dur:
45min., in English. Available on DVD and VHS
Individuals or Rentals: $ 50.00
Institutions: $ 100.00