Category: Video

Via ubuweb, some low-resolution, soundless, fascinating documentation of the Gutai performance art movement in Japan. See you in September! “Gutai art does not alter matter; it gives matter life … In Gutai art, the human spirit and matter, opposed as they are, shake hands … My respect goes out to the works of Pollock and […]

We’re sad to hear that artist, writer, and inventor Patrick Ready has died. Our sympathy goes to his friends and loved ones. Here’s some video of Patrick and longtime collaborator Hank Bull in last year’s television project Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (curated by Weekend Leisure). The video is an adaptation of material from the […]

Screened on August 15, 2012 This week, our film is based upon a classic German tale; famously adapted in literature by Goethe, but the subject of probably thousands of adaptations and retellings. Murnau, who earlier had created the vampire silent Nosferatu, made this film in 1926, before moving to Hollywood to make Sunrise. You can […]