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1982 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentation of a 1982 event at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York features a riveting performance by Wilke, who is nude (except for high heeled-shoes) and aiming a gun. As she stalks the performance space like Emma Peel crossed with an exotic dancer, two cameramen follow her, recording her every movement. Dissonant music and a voiceover text about art, violence, power and gender provide the aural counterpoint to her often provocative physical gestures.

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Poster for Fish

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lost in life and suffering from severe eczema which turns her skin into fish scales, Sarah travels to see her father whom she hardly knows and who is incapable of helping her. While on a boat trip together out at sea, Sarah dives into the water, resolving to become a fish.

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Poster for Moires Mémoires

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The same sequence is mingled with itself, calibrated according to curves that draw shapes on the blue or on the yellow, creating shifts in the thickness for a search of volumetric effects.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Help

2019 · ★ 7.8 (2)

We all need a little help sometimes.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The masked female figures that wander adrift through Pour Hosseini’s intensely lyrical explorations of displacement find their most energetic form in the bird-woman at the centre of Kinetics. Shot in saturated 16mm colour, this dreamlike film follows a primeval female figure exploring an ancient landscape poised over an endlessly blue sea. She is at once alienated from and engaged by her surroundings, which suggest a site of self-discovery as much as one of profound disorientation.

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Poster for El mundo de la mujer

1972 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Centered on a trade fair of products for women, the work's sarcastic and biting perspective falls on both the men who build that "world" (workers and businessmen) and the women who support them. Through techniques of distancing, mostly of image from sound, the artist developed a poignant reflection on the social debasement of and discrimination against women carried out by products that supposedly exalt and distinguish them.

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Poster for Mouths and Masks

1969 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhibit of 1973. I blow on and kiss a mirror, I apply lipstick, I transform into a white statue and paint blood red lips… then I become a mask in a distorted mirror, a face with many lips…In the last sequence I circle my face with a light and transform into the mask." - Penny Slinger

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Poster for Hippie Home Movie

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film was made for an exhibition entitled "Ghosts of the Catskills". The history of the Catskills had made an impression on me was that of the alchemy of landscape and the influence of Woodstock hippie culture.

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Poster for To and No Fro

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In collaboration with Monica de la Torre & Bunuel's Women Without Love. Status and culture crack the mirror of family secrets, dreams, hauntings and wish-fulfillment in shifting and multiplying frames.

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Poster for Hacia el sur

2017 · ★ 5.0 (2)

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Poster for last light

2015 · ★ 5.0 (1)

You know it's happening but you can't see it happening.

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Poster for Sex, Lies, Religion

1994 · ★ 7.0 (2)

A sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.

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Poster for Video Letters 1-3

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Because I have always been on the move, departing a city and waking up in another country, I find myself writing letters all the time — to people I miss, people I met on the road, people I look forward to meeting… When I grew tired of words (which happened very often), I began writing them in video. Since I was traveling, writing letters in unknown lands, I also had very limited access to technology. I write my video letters with Fisher Price Pixelvision, Super-8, and Hi-8. When I could not find editing facilities I edited them with the camera. They became records of my desires desperately in need of an outlet… When shown in public, they re-invent new meanings in different contexts. They become letters to anyone who can relate to them.” — Yau Ching

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Poster for Péché originel

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marie feels lonely in Paris and longing to meet the right one. But how do you know who is "he" when you always have a swarm of guys around you?

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Poster for Queen

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A bowling alley, artists, friends, a recording studio, a pregnancy, a baby and universal pop culture, not all necessarily in this order. In Queen, Kathryn Elkin has places, chronology, memories and words clash together. She creates a film of rapid prosody like a bowling bowl thrown at high speed, obliterating the very sense of performance. Written and shot during her own pregnancy and the first months in the life of her child, Queen questions the meaning of this experience for the artist: can being a mother be a performance?

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1944 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The hunting habits of the Inuit in the eastern Arctic.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Carol Morley tracks down her old friend Catherine Corcoran and returns to India where they once travelled as teenagers, in this playfully autobiographical short.

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Poster for She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.

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Poster for Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Re-introduces us to the city of Slavutych and its residents/survivors of the Chernobyl disaster while the workers are still dismantling the plant.

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