In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a title that would translate from the French as 'A gentleman who ate some bull'. Eugene Deslow got hold of that film and added an introduction plus a soundtrack, the latter consisting of commentary narrated by the single-named actor Bétove.
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of...
In an effort to cure her smoking habit a middle-aged woman discovers that she can communicate with h...
A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde soun...
This documentary is a journey into our own fascination, a collection of portraits of folk musicians ...
Produced in 1993, The Grand Delusion is one of our most completely realized works. In addition to ta...
Computer Movie No. 2 is a CGI animation created in advance of video-editing software. CTG programmed...
Writes Imai, "As a photographer during the 1970s, my interest in capturing time led me to explore th...
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop c...
An 18-minute long single-channel video which uses CNN footage cut so that each word is spoken by a d...
Yamaguchi writes, "In April 1969, Image Modulator was shown at the Sony Building exhibition Electrom...
A video installation using three monitors and mirrors, Ooi and Environs depicts the Tokyo cityscape ...
A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of A...
Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient ex...
A successful actress with three children takes an artist lover to fill a void in her life. This avan...
The quietly insistent and critical DEPOSITIONS attempts to restore some dignity to images of the com...
Writes Kobayashi, "In 1972 I started a series of participatory performances where the first person p...
A collaborative performance, Image of Seeing--Seeing investigates the meaning of television watching...
A member of the collective Video Hiroba, Morihiro Wada also used video in his solo projects. In The ...
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...