From Wikipedia: Landow or Land constructs ‘facades’ of reality, often directly addressing the viewer using the language of television, advertising or educational films, and by featuring characters that are often the antithesis of those we might expect to see, such as podgy middle aged men and religious fanatics. He sometimes

From UBU.com: “Re’Search Wait’S comprises four movies: Ready, The Re’Search, Roamie View : History Enhancement, and Temp Stop. The setting of this other side of the Any Ever diptych is a complicated industry predicated on the supremacy of metaphysically evolved market research. The base commodities are personality traits; while ordinarily

Written and directed by Ryan Trecartin.

Kevin McGarry writes, “Ryan Trecartin has established a singular video practice that in form and in function advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity, and also propels these matters as expressive mediums. His work depicts worlds where consumer culture is amplified to absurd or nihilistic proportions and characters circuitously

Director: Jennifer Reeves (1995, color 16mm, 5 minutes) From UBU.com: Exuberant rhythms are created for the eyes in this nostalgic study of the single film frame, through cutting, pasting, and painting clear and photographed film images. Fleeting shapes in lush, spattered color flicker and dance to big band beats.

Hare Krishna | EUA, 1966, 16 mm, 4 minutes. Directed by Jonas Mekas

Director: Joseph Cornell Music: John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Carol Emmanuel, Shanir Blumenkranz Year: 1942 Time: 8 mins

Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968, Joyce Wieland) “I can tell you that Wieland’s film holds. It may be about the best (or richest) political movie around. It’s all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real cats). After long suffering under the cats, the

New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976) .https://vimeo.com/18605738 Director: Owen Land (George Landow) Cast: George Landow

Essays On Reality is an ongoing series of short video art installations, influenced by the existentialist and surrealist movement, and inspired by social-political and economic events from around the world. A caricature of American idiocy, a metaphor about our consumer society and a visual interpretation of the Arab Spring. Pearl