Video Art Movies

We record things, forgetting the reason why; fragments of your consciousness are an incomplete film . . .

For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weapon in his hand. After eleven minutes he was...

The video debut of experimental musicians and culture jamming artists Emergency Broadcast Network.

'Ki or Breathing' is a spare concoction assembled from slow motion shots of nature and set to a score by the much-acclaimed Tohru Takemitsu.

American cartoons are the starting point for Martin Arnold's new work. Sequences of short films form the basis of a process of fragmentation,...

A girl lives a traumatic experience due to drugs, her friend's words are the breath that makes her float again

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of...

This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate...

A 1970 projection of what may come when pollution over powers nature.

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive public access...

A present-day science-fiction without dialogue, Siegel’s “Black Moon” traverses multiple film tropes – action, guns, lonely...

From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s (b.1931) varied...

IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals...

Today, analogue video is attractive primarily thanks to the distinctive aesthetic quality of its pixelated image and raster errors. But for Czech...

In this video work Bruce Nauman explores violence, gender and behaviour. Set around a simple middle class dining table, the scene quickly escalates...

A portrait of Alan Vega as painter, drawer and sculptor of light

A young anonymous office worker in the heart of an unnamed North American megacity takes us through a few fleeting days in her life.

Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit...