Suggested Viewing: CalArts Library Tapes
arranged by Nancy Buchanan
Video Issues/Theory/Media Critique
VC130 Max Almy: Program One
VHS111-115 What Does She Want Series (Video Data Bank: women videomakers)
VHS 114 Bad Attitude: John F. Kennedy campaign ad (1960) -- Suzanne suzanne
(1982) /James V. Hatch, Camille Billops -- Ronald Reagan’s campaign ad
(1980) -- Perfect leader (1983) / Max Almy -- Nixon/Agnew campaign ad (1972)
-- Homage to May 19th (1984) / Mary McFerran -- Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign
ad (1964) -- Uh-oh plutonium (1982) / Anne Waldman-- Mitchell’s death
(1978) / Linda Montano
VHS 2738 Beauty of Questions; interview with Robert Irwin
VHS 113 Crack in the Tube (Made for TV (1984, 15:00) / Tom Rubnitz, Ann Magnuson
-- Betty Furness for Westinghouse -- Kiss the girls, make them cry (1979, 6:50)
/ Dara Birnbaum -- Aqui en esta esquina / Sistema Sandinista de Television --
Betty Furness for Westinghouse -- Joan does Dynasty (1986, 35:00) / Joan Braderman)
VC45 Dara Birnbaum Collected Works
VHS1571 The BLO (Barbie Liberation) Nightly News
VC267 Born to Be Sold: The Strange Case of Baby $M; Martha Rosler
VHS 2931 Finagon; Gary Kibbins
VHS416 Joan Braderman Reads the National Enquirer (Paper Tiger TV)
VC150 Joan Does Dynasty; Joan Braderman/Paper Tiger TV
VHS2390 Bringing It to You! RTMark
VC 79 Call It Sleep; Terrel Seltzer, et al
VHS 2915 Chris Burden: Documentation of Selected Works
VHS348 Deep Dish TV, 1988
VHS421 Domination & Everyday Life; Martha Rosler
VC170 The Double; Ken Feingold
VC94 The Eternal Frame; T.R. Uthco (Ant Farm)
VHS115 Fact Is Stranger than Fiction (Illusions / produced, written and directed
by Julie Dash -- Kleenex Napkin’s Cling like cloth -- Semiotics of the
kitchen / Martha Rosler -- Design for dreaming / M.P.O. Productions -- Possibly
in Michigan / written & directed by Cecelia Condit -- Art world wizard /
by Carole Ann Klonarides, Michael Owen -- Leaving the 20th century / a videotape
by Max Almy)
VC93 Freedom of Information Act; Margia Kramer
VC95 Green Card; Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
VHS1404 Good Morning, Mr. Orwell; Nam June Paik
VC265 Gulf Crisis TV Project; Paper Tiger TV
VC254 Interviews with Interviewers; Skip Blumberg
VHS 2729 Les LeVeque compilation reel number 2
VHS905 Made in Hollywood; Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
VC223 A Man’s Woman; Laura Kipnis
VC77 Martha Rosler Reads Vogue; Martha Rosler/Paper Tiger TV
VC124 Media Hostages; Branda Miller, Chip Lord, Muntadas
VHS751 The ’90s: Money
VHS757 The ’90s: Race & Racism
VHS1195 One-Way Street: Biography of Walter Benjamin
VC 205 Out of the Mouths of Babes; Sherry Millner
VHS 2483 Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art
VHS2291 Representation & the Media with Stuart Hall
VC74/75 Social Studies, Parts I & II; Lyn Blumenthal
DVD 2093 Sample Case for Torture; Martha Rosler
VHS 2381 La société du spectacle; Guy Debord
VHS1752 Spin; Brian Springer
VHS 1772 Suggested Photo Spots; Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos
VHS 432 Statements; John E. Miller
VHS232 This Is Not an AIDs Advertisement; Isaac Julien
VHS 2717 TV or Not TV? (3 vols) LA Freewaves
VHS 1770 Undeniable Evidence: 5 Public Art Interventions; Igor Vamos
VHS301 Video Against AIDs, vol. 1 to 3
VHS 112 We Are Not Sugar & Spice (Mom tapes (1974-78, 26:52) / Ilene Segalove
-- Suburban queen (1985, 3:15) / Mindy Faber -- Split (1981, 20:00) / Ardele
Lister -- That’s it forget it (1985, 4:50) / Branda Miller -- Killing
time (1979, 9:00) / Fronza Woods -- Chevrolet Impala commercial -- Modern marriage
(1979, 3:00) / Max Almy -- This charming couple (1950, 18:46) / Willard Van
Dyke)
VHS 111 What Does She Want? (Interviews with Christine Choy, Yvonne Rainer,
Martha Rosler, and Nancy Spero)
DVD 2236 What Faroki Taught; Jill Godmilow
"Classic" Early Video
VHS 1424 ** Survey of American Video: The First Decade, vols. 1 - 9
vol 1: Explorations of presence, performance and audience: Performer, audience,
mirror (1975, 0:42) / Dan Graham; Selected works (1972, 8:00) / William Wegman;
Baldessari sings Lewitt, excerpt (1972, 4:00) / John Baldessari; Undertone,
excerpt (1972, 10:00) / Vito Acconci; Vertical roll (1972, 19:38) / Joan Jonas;
My father (1975, 15:00) / Shigeko Kubota; Exchange (1973, 36:00) / Robert Morris
& Lynda Benglis.
vol 2: Investigations of the phenomenal world: space, sound and light: The black
and white tapes, excerpt (1970-75, 6:17) / Paul McCarthy; Stamping in the studio,
excerpt (1968, 5:00) / Bruce Nauman; Double vision (1971, 15:00) / Peter Campus;
Boomerang (1974, 11:00) / Richard Serra and Nancy Holt; Island song (1976, 16:29)
/ Charlemagne Palestine; Cycles of 3s and 7s (1976, 3:00) / Tony Conrad; The
children's tapes (1974, 30:00) / Terry Fox; Soundings (1980, 5:00) / Gary Hill;
Lightning (1976, 1:12) / Paul and Marlene Kos; Sweet light (1977, 9:00) / Bill
Viola.
vol 3: Approaching narrative: The red tapes Part II (1976,
58:00) / Vito Acconci; Out of body travel, excerpt (1976, 23:00) / Richard Foreman;
The continued story of Carel and Fred, excerpt (1972-75, 34:00) / Arthur Ginsburg
and Video Free America.
vol 4: Gendered confrontations: Art herstory, excerpt (1972,
15:00) / Hermine Freed; Female sensibility (1973, 14:00) / Lynda Benglis; Ama
l'uomo tuo = Always love your man (1974, 19:00) / Cara DeVito; The mom tapes,
excerpt (1974-78, 7:00) / Ilene Segalove; Primal scenes (1980, 11:00) / Linda
Montano; Nun and deviant, excerpt (1976, 13:00) / Nancy Angelo and Candace Compton;
Vital statistics of a citizen, simply obtained (1977, 38:00) / Martha Rosler.
vol 5: Performance of video-imaging tools:Calligrams, excerpt (1970, 4:00) / Woody and Steina Vasulka; Illuminatin' Sweeney, excerpt (1975, 5:00) / Skip Sweeney; Video weavings, excerpt (1976, 4:00) / Stephen Beck ; produced at the TV lab at WNET/Thirteen; Five-minute romp through the IP (1973, 5:00) / Dan Sandin; Triangle in front of square in front of circle in front of triangle (1973, 3:00) / Dan Sandin; Video-taping, (1974, 5:00) / Ernie Gusella; Exquisite corpse (1978, 5:00) / Ernie Gusella; Einstine (1968, 6:00) / Eric Siegel; General Motors, excerpt (1976, 10:00) / Phil Morton; Merce by Merce by Paik (1978, 28:00) / Nam June Paik ; produced at the TV lab at WNET/Thirteen; Crossings and meetings, excerpt (1974, 3:00) / Ed Emshwiller ; produced at the TV lab at WNET/13; Complex wave forms (1977, 4:00) / Ralph Hocking; Pictures of the lost, excerpt 1978, 8:00) / Barbara Buckner; Video locomotion: man performing forward hand leap, excerpt (1978, 5:00) / Peer Bode; Music on triggering surfaces (1978, 3:00) / Peer Bode; C-Trend, excerpt (1974, 3:00) / Woody Vasulka; Switch! Monitor! Drift! (1976, 8:00) / Steina.
vol 6 Decentralized communication projects: Mayday realtime,
excerpt (1971, 10:00) / David Cort and Curtis Ratcliff; Selected tapes 1971:
Women's Liberation March NYC, Gay Pride March NYC, Young Lords occupy Manhattan
Church, Native American action at Plymouth Rock (1971-1972, 28:00) / People's
Video Theater, Ken Marsh and Elliot Glass - Participation, excerpt (1969-1971,
6:00) / Woody and Steina Vasulka; First transmission of ACTV, excerpt (1972,
4:00) / ACTV and George Stoney; Jonesboro Storytelling Festival: Kathryn Windham
telling ghost stories, The jumbo light (1974, 6:00) / Broadside TV; The politics
of intimacy, excerpt (1974, 10:00) / Julie Gustafson; Attica interviews, excerpt
(1971, 8:00) / Portable Channel; Queen Mother Moore speech at Greenhaven Prison,
excerpt (1973, 17:00) / Peoples' Communication Network; The laughing alligator
(1979, 27:00) / Juan Downey.
vol 7 Critiques of art and media as commodity and spectacle:Eternal
frame (1976, 23:00) / Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco; Television delivers people (1973,
6:00) / Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman; The business of television
news, excerpt (1974, 15:00) / University Community Video; Proto media primer
(1970, 14:00) / Paul Ryan and Raindance; About media, excerpt (1977, 17:00)
/ Tony Ramos; Fifty wonderful years (1973, 28:00) / Optic Nerve; Wonder woman
(1978-79, 7:00) / Dara Birnbaum.
vol 8 Independents address television audiences: Healthcare:
your money or your life (1978, 60:00) / Downtown Community Television; The ruling
classroom (1979-80, 58:25) / Peter Bull and Alex Gibney.
vol 9 Independents address television audiences: Four more
years (1972, 60:00) / Top Value Television, TVTV.
DVD 2044 (multiple disks) 40 Years of German Video Art
DVD1115 Ant Farm Video
VHS538 Baldessari,John; Hermine Freed
VC 257 Baldessari, John; I will not make any more boring art
VHS2251 Binary Lives: Woody & Steina Vasulka; Peter Kirby
VC232 Peter Campus: Selected Works
VHS 2346 Mike Douglas Show (with Yoko Ono & John Lennon)
VHS197 Ernie Kovacs
VC11 Exchange; Lynda Benglis
VD795 Gary Hill: Spinning the Spur of the Moment
VHS1686 Global Groove; Nam June Paik
VHS 467 Love Tapes; Wendy Clarke
VHS 2917 The Medium Is the Medium
VHS466 Memory Surfaces/Mental Prayers; Bill Viola
VHS962 The Nun and the Deviant; Candace Compton & Nancy Angelo
VD192 Persistence of Vision (3 vol. collection on discs)
VC153 Prisoner's Dilemma; Richard Serra
VC23 Scape-Mates; Ed Emshwiller
Vdisc 778 Soundies
VHS 2921 Soup & Tart
VHS462 Tribute to Nam June Paik; Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn
VHS 420 Vasulkas
VC152 William Wegman:Selected Works
VC156 William Wegman:Selected Body Works
Performance/Autobiography/Installation
VC234 Vito Acconci: Theme Song
VHS 2934 The Amateurist; Miranda July
VHS2387 American Psychodrama
VHS 994 Sadie Benning; Selected Works
VHS 2641 Sadie Benning; Videoworks 3
VC 203 Belshazzar's Feast; Susan Hiller
VHS 2916 Blinky, the Friendly Hen; Bruce Yonemoto
VHS 1807 Brown Shirts, White Sheets; Mike Jarmon
VHS 2536 Chocolate Cello; Jud Yalkut
VHS 2793 Chute
VHS1049 The Couple in the Cage; Guillermo Gomez-Peña & Coco Fusco
VHS 1827 Crossings and Meetings; Ed Emshwiller
VHS 2021 Dances for the Camera; Shirley Clarke
VHS1054 Delirium; Mindy Faber
VHS 877 Lewis DeSoto Works
VD 1537 Devo: We're All Devo
VHS156 Dick Talk: Regina Archer
VHS 2746 Double-Blind; Sophie Calle & Gregg Shephard
VHS 2005 Dressing Up; Susan Mogul:
VC271 Dry Kisses Only; Jane Cottis & Kaucylia Brooke
VHS 1658 East Coat, West Coast; Richard Serra & Nancy Holt
VHS899 Electronic Diary; Lynn Hershman
VHS 2667 Everyday Echo Street; Susan Mogul
VC164 Evol; Tony Oursler
VHS 1563 Four Video Translations; Jerry Hunt
VHS 2394 The Hundred Videos (5 vols)_Steve Reinke
DVD 2601 Harry Gamboa: 1990s video
VHS 1359 Gate to the Mind's Eye; Tomas Dolby
VHS 3070 Shalom Gorewitz Video
VHS 2951 Joe Gibbons Videowork
DVD 1392 Granular Synthesis Remixes for Single Screen; video installation
VC182 Hungers; Ed Emshwiller
VC298 It Wasn’t Love; Sadie Benning
VC 308 Kappa; Mike Kelley with Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
DVD 125 Key to Songs; Morton Subotnik
VHS2647 Knots; Diana Thater
VHS1941 Kuchar, George: Recent Work
VHS 2762 Lucier, Mary; Installations
VHS2625 Luminous Image (video installations)
VHS1012 Memories from the Dept of Amnesia; Janice Tanaka
VHS3006 Mitchell's Death; Linda Montano
VHS2305 My Getty Center; Judy Fiskin
VHS942 No Regret; Marlon Riggs
VHS2396 No Sunshine; Bjorn Melhus
VHS 1453 Obsessive Becoming; Dan Reeves
VD560 The Passing; Bill Viola
VHS 1781 Peep Show Tapes; Reza Abdoh
VHS 3037 Silvia Pengilly; video/computer performance work
VHS2307 Philomela Speaks; Kathleen Sweeney
VHS 2691 Please Kill Me...Rachel Schreiber
DVD 1889 Natasa Prosenc; Video Installations
VC 197 Pure Virtue; Tanya Mars
VHS 2229 Recent Videos (1997) George Kuchar
VHS 971 Relocations; David Mura
VHS 216/7 A Scenic Harvest...,Bitter Message...; Survival Research Laboratories
VHS 2927 Secret Spill; Theresa Hak Cha
VHS 1012 Selected Works; Janice Tanaka
VHS 2598 She Puppet; Peggy Awesh
Vdisc 484 Silverlake Life; Tom Joslin
Beta228 Smothering Dreams; Dan Reeves
VHS 632 Stations; Robert Wilson
DVD 1914 Strange Love; The LA Art Girls
VHS323 Tongues Untied; Marlon Riggs
VC105 Trick or Drink; Vanalyne Green
VHS 941 Trilogy; Ulysses Jenkins
VHS 2389 20 Twisted Questions; The Residents
VHS 640 Tupperware Party; Jef Kessinger
VHS309 Two Moon July; The Kitchen (Laurie Anderson, David Bryne, et al)
VC259 A Spy in the House that Ruth Built; Vanalyne Green
DVD2078 Video Album 5: The Thursday People; George Kuchar
VHS 2029 Video Dance directed by Douglas Rosenberg
VHS1427 Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained; Martha Rosler
VHS 3072 Three Interactive Works; Grahame Weinbren
VHS 1774 woman Saying Sorry; Anne Walsh
VHS2665 1-10 Zapp Magazine
Experimental Narrative/Experimental Documentary
VHS 1389 AlieNATION; John Manning, Barbara Lathrop, Ed Rankus
Beta224 Allan ’n’ Allen’s Complaint; Nam June Paik
VHS1692 Art of Memory; Woody Vasulka
VHS 1096 Art to Art: Asian American Women Artists
VC 279 As a Wife Has a Cow; Cornelia Wyngaarden
VHS 2359 Awful Truth; Michael Moore
VC309 Behold, the Promised Land; Ardele Lister
VHS 1064 Birth of a Nation 4x29x92; Matthew McDaniel
VHS1484 Black Is...Black Ain’t; Marlon Riggs
VC268 Blind Country; Ericka Beckman & Mike Kelly
VHS 8 Cadillac Ranch & media burn: Ant Farm
VHS 2932 Carl Andre's Overalls; Gary Kibbins
VC252 Color Schemes; Shulea Cheang
VHS 2980 Cone Eather; Takeshi Murata
VC73 The Commission; Woody Vasulka
VHS 882 Desert Bush; Sherry Millner & Ernest Larsen
VC228 Common Mistakes; Jeanne Finley
DVD 1850 Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
DVD 1384 Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y; Johann Grimonprez
VC201 Displayed Termination: The Interval Between Deaths; Erika Suderberg
VHS 2746 Dougle Blind; Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard
VHS1773 Ekleipsis; Tran-T.Kim Trang
VHS 2696 Film of Her; Bill Morrison
VHS1531 Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mas; Isaac Julien
VHS 2829 Frontera Sur RRTV.
VHS668 Hard Times & Culture: Vienna fin de Siecle; Juan Downey
VHS2394 The Hundred Videos; Steve Reinke (5 vols)
VHS2659 Identical Time: Seoungho Cho
VD195 I Do Not Know What It Is I am Like; Bill Viola
VC 191 In the Dark... Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak
vhs942 (In)Visible Women; Ellen Spiro
VHS619 I Need Your Full Cooperation; Kathy High
VHS 3006 I Say I Am; Lynda Benglis, Steina, Eleanor Antin, Linda Montano, Susan
Mogul
VHS 2870 Joanie for Jackie Forever; Miranda July
VC125 Just a Minute--TV Works; Various artists
DVD2180 L.A. Nickel; Branda Miller
VHS465 The Laughing Alligator; Juan Downey
VC240 L.A. Freewaves (CalArts Program)
VHS 2752 Les Lieux de Video
VC258 Let's Play Prisoners; Julie Zando
VHS461 The Looking Glass; Juan Downey
VHS 990 Longshot: Lynn Hershman
VHS547 The Lull Before the Storm; Sara Diamond
VHS 1207 Machina Mystica; Aaron Ross Compilation
VHS1012 Memories from the Department of Amnesia; Janice Tanaka
VHS443 The Mexican Tapes; Louis Hock
Vdisc 562 Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
VHS 1643 Music with Roots in the Aether (7 vols) Robert Ashley
VHS 3086 O Night without Objects; Jeanne Finley & John Muse
VHS3075 The Nurse & the Hijackers; Eleanor Antin
VHS 479 Paper Tiger: Varda Burstyn Reads Playboy
VHS 3037 Sylvia Pengilly Video Works
VC128 Possibly in Michigan; Cecelia Condit
VHS1825 Primarily Speaking; Gary Hill
VHS1691 Prime Time in the Camps; Chris Marker
VC188 Quickening; Donna Matorin
Beta340 Rhea; David Askevold
VC 235 Sightlines; Nancy Buchanan
VHS 3033 Strange Weather; Peggy Ahwesh
VHS 927 Through Her Eyes; 8 vols of film & video by women
VHS 2698 Trinity; Bill Morrison
VHS 1293 Two-way Mirror...Dan Graham
VHS 2908 Untitled, Fall 1985; Alex Bag
VD 188 Bill Viola: Selected Works
VC 165 Virtual Play:The Double Direct Monkey Wrench; Steve Fagin
VHS 336 Wallace + Theresa; Jan Peacock
VHS 1106 Wax, or the Discovery of Television among the Bees; David Blair
VC 314 Who’s Going to Pay for these Donuts, Anyway? Janice Tanaka
VHS 1921 Robert Wilson's Hamlet
VHS 2229 Word Is Out; Peter Adair
DVD 1851 Woman Moves; Shirin Neshat
VHS 2703-10 Zacharias Kunuk; Storytellers & Our Land series
VDisc 818 Zbigniew Rybczynski; selected works
Recent Work
VHS 2740 Art 21 (Laurie Anderson)
VHS 2812 Art 21 (Eleanor Antin)
VHS 2918 Art 21 (Matthew Barney)
DVD 1333 Artists of the West Coast (new media works)
VHS 2761 Artists Working in the New Media
DVD 1877 Aspect, Joie de Vivre
DVD 1519 Aspect, vol. 4: Text & Language
DVD 1915 Aspect Magazine On Location; compilation & discussion
DVD 1961 First Person: Video from Los Angeles & Mexico City
VHS 2829 Frontera sur RRTV
DVD 1385 The cinematic works Eija-Liisa Ahtila
DVD 1392 Granular Synthesis: Remixes for the Single Screen
DVD 1050 Matthew Barney: Cremaster Three
DVD 641 Matrix Berkeley: Doug Aitken, Shirin Neshat, others
DVD 849 Music Video of Chris Cunningham
DVD 850 Music Video of Michel Gondry
DVD 848 Music Video of Spike Jonze
DVD 1071 Point of View: Anri Sala
DVD 1072 Point of View: David Claerbout
DVD 1073 Point of View: Douglas Gordon
DVD 1074 Point of View: Francis Alys
DVD 1075 Point of View: Gary Hill
DVD 1076 Point of View: Isaac Julien
DVD 1077 Point of View: Joan Jonas
DVD 1078 Point of View: Paul McCarthy
DVD 1079 Point of View: Pierre Huyghe
DVD 1080 Point of View: Pipilotti Rist
DVD 1081 Point of View: William Kentridge
DVD 1889 Installations by Natasa Prosenc
Technical Info
VHS1939/40 The Secret Life of the Videorecorder/ of the Television Set
VHS 192-3 Controlling the Image: the Art of Using Filters
VHS 227 Lighting in the Real World
VHS1406 Lighting for video
VHS 2223, 2642 Power of Lighting for Film & Video
DVD 1446 Preservation of Analog Video
VHS 2360 Correction please or, how we got into pictures; Noel Burch
VHS 412 Shaping Your Sound with Microphones