First Annual Video Marathon

Tennessee Reid Norton, The Lizard Whomper ( 2:15 min.)
Puts “Bambi and Godzilla” to shame.

Mark O’Connell, The Economy is Booming (3:30 min.)
The unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in years. We’re working more than ever before. But people can’t even afford to pay their bills.

Scott Sona Snibbe, Lost Momentum (6:20 min.)
A beautiful animated film with original score.

Serena Lin, outside/inside (2:30 min.)
A study of personal space.

Matthew Scott, Adrenalin (8:16 min.)
This film is about the retinal excitement and optical pleasure caused from watching things in motion.

Jason Briggs, Broken (8:00 min.)
This film takes you on a shockingly twisted journey into the life and possible demise of one family’s struggle.

Leslie Bishko, Gasping for Air (3:01 min.)
…an expression of the desire for harmony, within oneself and within one’s environment.

Muriel Magenta and Michael Udow, Token City (4:00 min.)
A 3D animation that transforms the everyday commute into an experience of images and sounds that merge reality with the extraordinary

Alex Prisadsky, Infection (4:00 min.)
Black and white forms mimic the progress and style of an infection.

Evelyn Hirata, Brilliance (2:00 min.)
This piece represents a moment of creative output.

Donald S. Filipchuk, Scuba (1:40 min.)
An animated adventure in mysterious underwater tunnels.

M. Mathisha Nihalsingha, Praxis (3:00 min.)
A practical application or exercise of a branch of learning.

Robert Arnold, Morphology of Desire (5:45 min.)
An experimental exploration of the commodified representation of gender and desire in popular culture

Jeff Rappaport, Disgruntled Elf (2:00 min.)
A Coming Attraction for what is sure to be this year’s holiday blockbuster!

Skizz Cyzyk, Four Films in Five Minutes: A Trilogy,= (6:30 min.)
Great animation with great music. Sit back and enjoy!

Tennessee Reid Norton, If I Had A Hammer (3:00 min.)
The Misadventures of Spittle and Fudd, a series of side-splitting stop-motion shorts.

Jeff Scher, Yours (3:10 min.)
Animation and hand colored film combined with actual footage create a beautiful melange of analog psychedelia.

Jayne Austin, The Artwork in the Age of the Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told by Keith Sanborn,1936 (1998, 3:30 min.)
If the copyright date on this tape is correct, it may be the earliest digital video work on record. If not, then it’s a cheap, irreverent forgery.

Peter Freund, Foreign Film (1998, 4:38 min. excerpt)
Experimental vignettes exploring the psychology and politics of foreignness.

David Blair, Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES (2 works in progress, 9:16 min.)
A video set in an imaginary world of Japanese-colonized Manchuria in 1947.The general population has developed telepathy, and some people begin to produce telepathic motion pictures.

Walleed Raad, Missing Lebanese Wars (1996, 6 min.); Secrets in the Open Sea, (1997, 4:45 min.)

Sarah Smiley, No Passing Through (1998, 6 min.)
In this train ride, all of the passengers are involved in their own realities consciously trying to avoid the glances of others.

Michael McWhirter, Losing Sky (1998, 3 min.)
A Young Man attemps to assemble a puzzle until he realizes the pieces no longer fit.

Guillermo Cifuentes, The Equivocation (1997, 4 min.)

Chia-Hui Swift, Lips (1998, 1 min.)

Mary Klein, Fissure (1998, 7 min.)
A performance video exploring the thrill of danger within minimalist aesthetic.

Michael Buckland. Practice (1998, 0:53 min.)

Jacqui Kuraj, In the Year of Blame (1999, 5:30 min.)
Kuraj presents her body and its ritualized mutilation as a critical landscape of sacrifice, wherein the mythological souls of martyrs roam the terrain.

Dan Cooney, Head (1997, 2 min. excerpt)
A continuous effort without achievement create a presence of generalized anxiety.

Alysse Stepanian, 72 Hours: Acrobat’s Little Leap (1998, 8:50 min.)
A test of endurance inspired by an experiment conducted by the US military, under code name “Acrobat’s Leap.”

Evie Leder, Gracious Flab/Gracious Bones (1995, 4:02 min. excerpt)
A video about the work of Susan Stinson

Carlo Ferraris, Woman on the Floor (1198, 3:29 min.)

Jan Baracz, Stalactice Dance (1998, 7 min.)

Justine Cooper, Rapt (1998, 5 min.)
A video journey through a virtual body created from MRI scans of the artist_s body.

Bernie Lubell, Of Course before the Heart (1997, 1:49 min.)
Apparatus of heart simulation after one of Marey’s heart simulations

Lisa Shafir, Dating (1998, 1:04 minutes); Dream (1998, 0:51 min.); Enigma (1998, 0:42 min.); Marriage (1998, 1:28 min.)
Statement about the condition of a single women New York City in the 1990’s.

Astrid Klein, Bad Dreams (1997, 5:30 min.)
A woman sitting in a rocking chair is having a conversation with a fictional male counterpart. The sentimental dialogue deals with the missed chances for love.

Flavia de Souza, It takes two (1996, 14 min. excerpt)
A video investigating the transformation of lovers into husbands and wives by focusing on young heterosexual couples.

Oksana Chepelyk, Evident Unavoidable (1997, 8:41 min. excerpt)
Unidentified men and women recall their first sexual experience.

Taryn Fitzgerald, Knead (1997, 8:40 min.)
A doughboy is shaped, obsessively re-shaped and finally baked.

Selections From the Whitney Program:

Matthew Bakkom, In Our Time (1998, 14:30 min.)

Colin Beatty, Water Shed (1998, 2:00 min.)

Rene Gabri, My Brother: The Dating Video (1999, 9:40 min.)

Karl Frederick Haendel & Julian Stark, Kids Don’t Play with Guns (1998, 4:30 min.)
A short video addressing the irony of manifest violence in a culture that loves its guns

Susan Kelly, Home Truth: Tourist Reconstruction (4:00 min. excerpt,1998)

Jenny Perlin, The Whole History of That (1998, 17:00 min.)

Graig Smith, Hey. Look @ It This Way (1998, 12:00 min.)

Selections from Paper Tiger Television:

Subverting Media: A Low-Tech Guide To Information Activism (1998, 29:00 min.)
Produced by the Paper Tiger Television Collective
From Stencils to zines, graffiti to poster art, this video explores the potential of Do It Yourself media.

SOS Haiti, The Million Youth March (1998, 29:00 min.).
A weekly public access show produced by the Haitian community Action Group (KAKO), with support from Paper Tiger Television’s workshop program, this particular tape explores Harlem’s 1998 Million Youth March and offers community perspectives that were absent from the mainstream media.

Selections From Art in General’s Open Submission

Aeron Bergman, Untitled (1998, 2:00 min.)
An extreme, yet humorous disgust for a consuming humanity.

David Crawford, Newspeak (1998, 1:00 min.)

Tara Mateik, Cereal (1998, 12:00 min.)

Joe Mckay, Fighting the Good Fight (1998, 5:30 min.)
The artist and his pals (Wayne Gretzky and R2D2) fight the good fight by striking a series of poses.

Keith Sanborn, Imaginary Laughter (1995, 5:25 min.)
A Study of male hysteria as Charcot might have imagined it had he been obsessed with cheesy horror films, underground classics, superman and cartoons.

Michael Buckland, A Little Trip to Heaven (199, 2:00 min.)
The artist with his head buried in the sand at Cony Island.

John Geary, Devil Tour ‘94 (1994, 2:30 min.)
Dressed up like the Devil, Geary traveled from Oregon to New York City, jumping out of his car and surprising people along the way.

Jacqueline Goss, Medicine Show (1998, 7:00 min.)

Mary Magsamen, I Keep Forgetting What I Thought I Was Looking For (1998, 1:29 min.)

Sharri Weinberg, My personal Messages (1998, 3:00 min.)

Simone Michelin, Interval Between Things (199, 3:30 minutes)

Unknown Director, Dandelions (1998, 5:00 min.)
An African Canadian woman explores her relationship to the white landscape of her native Canada.

M. Geller, So Few Scarletts (1998, 13:30 min.)
A conversationally paced art doc which examines Southern life, existing somewhere between the mythology of Gone With The Wind and the lingering remnants of the Civil War.

Na’ama Batya Lewin, Cycle:The Mikvah (1998, 15 min.)
An Orthodox Jewish woman’s reaction to the monthly practice of the ritual bath.

Evie Leder, Straight (1997, 11:25 min.)

Guy Debord, Feature: The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
Based on the book of the same name by the Situationist Guy Debord, this film uses news footage, sequences from Hollywood and former East Block features, documentary footage, TV commercials, soft-core porno, and a vast number of stills.

Carlo Ferraris, Bolt on the Floor (1998, 5:30 min.)

Skip Blumbergv, ConCreep (1998, 3:48 min.)
A chance encounter by camcorder reporter Skip Blumberg with a street performer, a virtuoso appliance-parts percussionist, is cut short by the NYPD.

Karin Hinterleitner, Assessment and Modification of Behavior in A Public Place (1997, 7:00 min.)
Psychological case studies documented in a shopping center in Germany focuses criteria of behaviors.

Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Everyone Must Tighten Their Belts (1997, 4:30 min.)
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Christy Denes, Candy (1998, 14:00 min.)
Denes’ movies are about communicating information, and at the same time they are about the impossibility of communication in an age of mass communications technology and isolation.

K8 Hardy, A Little Off (1998, 3:45 min.)

Judy Fiskin, Diary of a Midlife Crisis (1997, 15:56 min.)
a serio-comic video diary of a middle-aged woman photographer learning to use a video camera while meditating on art, aging, creativity and having fun.

Gita Reddy and David Dasharath Kalal, Hindustan (1998, 3:30 min.)
A man and a woman do role reversal lip-synching to the title song.

Janet Dobson, Merry Christmas (and a Transformation) (1998, 2:45 min.)

Nguyen Tan Hoang, Maybe Never (but I’m counting the days) (1996, excerpt)
A piece about growing up gay and colored in the age of AIDS. The story is told by four different people.