Young and Restless
video compilation
Program 1
Head by Cheryl Donegan. 1993, 2:49 min.
Donegan confronts sex, fantasy and voyerism in a autoerotic workout performed
to pop music.
Host by Kristin Lucas. 1997, 8 min.
At a sidewalk kiosk similar tro an automatic teller machine, Lucas works
on her aggression toward technical control
Watch Out for Invisible Ghosts by Kristin Lucas. 1996, 5 min.
Lucas Plays plays out a fear of contamination, of bugs in the system, on
a level that borders on insanity.
Male Pattern Baldness by Alix Lambert. 1994, 3min.
Lambert transforms herself into a balding basketball coach, shooting hoops
and cursing.
Carmen I by kirsten Mosher. 1995, 8 min.
Carmen, a toy soldier disguised as a cardboard car, crawls into oncoming
traffic in an intersection near the Holland Tunnel.
Bam, Bam, Bam by Aliz Pearlstein. 1994, 5:24 min.
Pearlstein uses the idea of evolution as a metaphor and a structural principle
to address the question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Psionic Summoning by Anne Kuegler. 1996, 8 min.
A woman learns about certain magical systems through television, then participates
in a ritual and produces magical children
Bodily Functions by Jocelyn Taylor, co-written by Lisa Marie Bronson.
1995, 14 min.
A naked fugitive, a butch biker, and a young girl confront the danger,
power, and vulnerability women experience when they begin to explore sexuality.
Program 2
Life Lines by Tatiana Parcero. 1995, 6 min.
Parcero paints her body from feet to head, tracing the veins and organs
that represent the lines of her life, the cells of her memory.
Shore by Linda Post. 1996, 6:15 min.
A video camera caught in the surf acts as a surrogate performer and witness
to unpredictable forces.
Sally by Kristin oppenheim. 1995, 10 min (excerpt)
Three abstract photographs fade in and out of view, driven by Oppenheim´s
hypnotic soundtrack.
In and Around the Garden by Beverly Semmes. 1993, 7 min.
Semmes creates surrealistic series of still-lifes -- motionless, timeless
scenes filled with Alice in Wonderland-like costumes
Piano Americano by Vanessa Beecroft. 1996, 10 min
Beecroft performs at the Deitch Projects gallery, using women models as
images.
In the Present by Phyllis Baldino. 1996, 12 min.
Baldino constructs scenes that explore the idea that the brain can grasp
only three to twelve seconds as "the present", unimpeded by memory.
Program 3
Respite by Nurit Newman. 1996, 3:30 min.
Newman uses ice as a metaphor for the numbering of a sensation and/or desire,
and the freezing/capturing of experience.
Crack by Linda Post.1996, 6:05 min.
An excerpt from an installation at the Granmercy Park Hotel in New York,
created as an exploitation of the site as a public/private space.
Chalk Confessions by Johnna MacArthur. 1996, 14:37 min.
One of a series of nine videos by the artist on the idea of rupturing:
here the self ruptures in a confession ritualistically inscribed and recorded.
I Wish I Knew How To Play Soccer (and Other Sports) by Cara O´Connor.
1995, 8 min.
A non-athlete, uncertain of her body, compares herself to the goal-driven,
confident members of a soccer team.
Interiors by Alix Pearlstein. 1996, 8:45 min.
Ideas of identity are played out in scenes featuring a white cat, a Playboy
party girl, an artist/florist, a nuclear family, a domesticated statue,
and an Energizer Bunny.
Line by Cheryl donegan. 1996, 15 min.
Inspired by jean-Luc Godard´s Le Mepris (Contempt), Donegan seeks
a "classical" language through which stories can be told.
Program 4
Untitled Fall ´95 by Alex Bag. 1995, 57 min.
Bag plays a gallery of stereotypes to comment on the superficiality and
banality of pop culture and certain struggles toward self-definition.