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Nanook of the North, 1922 (excerpt)

Robert Flaherty

1921, 8:05

Robert Flaherty's ground-breaking 1922 account of the lives of a family of Inuits in the Canadian Arctic has been criticized for lack of authenticity. Nonetheless, the film has left an indelible impression on the development of the nonfiction documentary genre.

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WAGE WoManifesto
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WAGE, Working Artists and the Greater Economy, made this video to spread their manifesto around the world in advocacy of the rights of artists and art workers.
Video from confrontation at Brunnenstraße 183, Berlin. November 24, 2009.
10:00
November 27, 2009, takeover and protest at Brunnenstrasse 183, Berlin.
Maya Deren, A Study in Choreography for the Camera, 1945.
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Maya Deren's seminal short film A Study in Choreography for the Camera, 1945.
Jeremy Wade performs at "Pussy Faggot"
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Jeremy Wade performs as part of Earl Dax's evening "Pussy Faggot" at The Delancey in New York, January 14, 2010.

Music by Pete Drungle and Mike Skinner.
Video by Francis Legge.
Excerpt from Malcolm McLaren's Paris: Capital of the XXIst Century, 2010
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Chapter 13, "Le Peintre" (The Painter), from Malcolm McLaren's 2010 film Paris: Capital of the XXIst Century.
Bruce McClure performance at REDCAT
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An untitled Bruce McClure performance at REDCAT, Los Angeles, September 29, 2009.
Corneliu Porumboiu, Police, Adjective, 2009. (Trailer)
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Official trailer for Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective, 2009.
M Blash, Lewis Takes Off His Shirt, 2010
Owen Pallett (Domino Records)
2010 (5:13)
Music video by Brooklyn/Portland based artist and director M Blash for Owen Pallett's song from his album "Heartland."
Mary Wigman, Witch Dance, 1914
1:53
An excerpt from Mary Wigman's Hexentanz (Witch Dance), originally choreographed in 1914, filmed in 1930.
Trailer for Soi Cheang’s Accident (2009)
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Trailer for Soi Cheang’s Accident (2009).
Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966. (Excerpt)
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A short excerpt from Robert Bresson's 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar.
Serge Gainsbourg, "Lemon Incest" (1984)
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The video for Serge Gainsbourg's song "Lemon Incest" (1984) performed with his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Interview with filmmaker Mai Iskander of Garbage Dreams.
9:59
Garbage Dreams runs at the IFC Center in New York through January 19.

New York, January 6, 2010—Shot over a four-year period, Mai Iskander's Garbage Dreams tracks the lives of three Zaballeen teenagers living in Mokattam, a garbage village on the outskirts of Cairo, at a time when their way of life and means of survival is being threatened.

The city of Cairo, with a population of eighteen million, has no waste disposal system. For over a century, a subculture of rural Coptic Christians from the south of Egypt has been collecting and recycling garbage. They are remarkably efficient , recycling 80 percent of the trash they collect from people's doorsteps. Now Cairo has hired three multinational waste disposal companies from Spain and Italy who are contractually required only to recycle 20 percent of what they collect and landfill the rest. The Zaballeen are therefore competing with technologically better-equipped (but less productive) companies for their raw material. Poignant, entertaining and enlightening,"Garbage Dreams" is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a close-knit community. It has won seventeen Best Documentary awards, including Nashville Film Festival's Reel Current award, selected by Al Gore, and has been shortlisted for an Oscar. To see a longer version of this interview, visit squaringoff.blip.tv. For more info about the film, www.garbagedreams.com.
Segment filmed by Liza Béar
Burma VJ: Monks in Exile Speak About the Saffron Revolution
Liza Béar
5:34
New York, May 8, 2009—Three monks, leaders of the Saffron Revolution and now refugees in the US, openly discuss their participation in the 2007 uprising against the Burmese military junta portrayed in Anders Ostergaard's award-winning film Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. The monks belong to the All Burma Monks' Alliance, (ABMA) Utica, NY, whose goal is to support the many monks currently being held as political prisoners in Burmese jails, refugee monks who have escaped incarceration and torture, and to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. The film, Burma VJ, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.. See also the interview with Anders Østergaard and Khin Maung Win on this blog. [Both interviews filmed and edited by Liza Béar, squaringoff.blip.tv]
BURMA VJ: Anders Østergaard, Khin Maung Win Interview
Liza Béar
9:58
BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country , directed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard uses camcorder and cellphone footage from undercover DVB reporters risking their lives. The story of the brutal quelling of the September 2007 monks' uprising is narrated by an unseen protagonist, Joshua, a twenty-seven-year-old reporter exiled in Thailand. A Sundance and Berlin festival award winner, the film has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Background—Burma, September 2007: An increase in fuel prices sparks extensive protests by students and activists against the military junta. For the first time, they are joined in the streets of Rangoon by thousands of Buddhist monks (the saffron revolution). While 100,000 people protest a repressive regime that has held the country hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews are banned and the Internet is shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 underground video journalists (VJs) record these dramatic events on handycams and cellphones and smuggle the footage out of the country, broadcasting it worldwide from Norway via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs document the brutal clashes by the military and undercover police — themselves becoming the targets of the authorities.

Interview with Anders Østergaard and Khin Maung Win, deputy director of the Democratic Voice of Burma in exile was filmed by Liza Béar and originally posted on www.squaringoff.blip.tv.
Tod Hackett at the Best Western on Sunset
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A video of the character Tod Hackett at the Best Western on Sunset. For more videos of Tod Hackett, visit its YouTube user-page here.
An interview with William Kentridge about the Met's production of The Nose
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Artist William Kentridge talks about his new production of Shostakovich's The Nose, which premieres at the Metropolitan Opera on March 5, 2010 for six performances only.

Tony Award winner Paulo Szot (South Pacific) stars as Kovalyov, the man who wakes up to discover that his nose has disappeared. Acclaimed Shostakovich interpreter Valery Gergiev conducts. Visit metopera.org for more information.
Sharon Hayes at the 2009 Creative Time Summit
Creative Time
2009, 20:04
Sharon Hayes discusses how moving to New York City in the early 1990s and witnessing the AIDS crises and artistic community has forever affected both her life and artistic practice during her keynote address at the 2009 Creative Time summit “Revolutions in Public Practice.”
Harry Smith, No. 10: Mirror Animations, 1957
Harry Smith Archives
3:34, 1957
Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an experimental filmmaker, musicologist, linguist, and occult theorist. For a 500 Words interview about Smith click here.
Trailer for The Runaways (2010)
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Trailer for The Runaways (2010).
Interviews with artists in Foot in the Door 4 at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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An introduction to some of the artists who submitted work for Foot in the Door 4, the once-a-decade wide-open exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The number of artists was unprecedented, as the registration line wound around the rotunda and out the door February 4 through 7. Minneapolis Artists Exhibition Program staff and volunteers took in nearly 5,000 works of art by an array of Minnesotans, whose one requirement was that their art fit within a twelve-inch cube. Foot in the Door 4 runs February 19–June 13, 2010.
Elisabeth Subrin, Well, Well, Well, 2002
Le Tigre
2002 (3:47)
An experimental video for electro-feminist-performance-artists Le Tigre, the early eighties MTV aesthetic unpacks a thoroughly current obsession: the hidden erotics of office supplies.
Hitler Learns MoCA Job Goes to Jeffrey Deitch
3:45
From YouTube: Hitler in his bunker hopes that he will get the job as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA), but is told by his senior staff that the job has gone instead to the New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, known for his business dealings and embrace of spectacle. Upset, Hitler lashes out at MoCA's board of trustees, Deitch, some of Deitch's artists (or those he admires), and the man who saved MoCA, LA philanthropist Eli Broad.
Lynda Benglis
Whitney Museum of Art
2009, 2:20
First recognized for spill pieces such as Contraband, which she discusses here, Benglis explains how her materials relate to nature, chemistry, and cooking.
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill, 1990
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Directed by Gran Fury. US 1990, video, color, 2 minutes.
Excerpt from Kelly Nipper's Weather Center, 2009.
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Excerpt from Kelly Nipper's Weather Center, 2009.
Single Channel Video Projection
TRT: 5:11 looped B/W Sound
Produced by Performa, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Francesca Kaufmann.
Marina Abramović and Ulay, Rest Energy, 1980. (Excerpt)
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An excerpt form Marina Abramović and Ulay's Rest Energy, 1980.
Jeff Keen, Flik Flak, 1963 (excerpt)
1963, 1:05
Fiercely independent and working primarily outside of the mainstream and avant-garde circuits, Keens' prolific output has embraced collage, live action, film, and animation––often played out as expanded cinema performances where chance and accident are vital components.
Michael Snow, La Région centrale, 1971.
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A clip from Michael Snow's 180 minute film La Région centrale, 1971.
Thomas Nozkowski On a Hike
Casimir Nozkowski
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The artist Thomas Nozkowski takes us on a hike to explain where he receives his inspiration.

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