Dara Birnbaum Movies

  • 2009
    We Live in Public

    We Live in Public

    We Live in Public

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    In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time...

    We Live in Public
  • 1978
    Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

    Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

    Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

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    The video opens with a barrage of explosive imagery along with an audio track of a siren taken from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman. The following...

    Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
  • 1980
    Local TV News Analysis

    Local TV News Analysis

    Local TV News Analysis

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    Local TV News Analysis is the document of a collaborative project of Graham and Birnbaum, in which they investigate local television news, both in...

    Local TV News Analysis
  • 1976
    Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

    Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

    Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

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    In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue...

    Liberty: A Dozen or So Views
  • 1987
    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

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    This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
  • 1987
    Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

    Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

    Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

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    1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of...

    Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.
  • 1975
    Mirroring

    Mirroring

    Mirroring

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    “In this early performance-based work, Birnbaum investigates the notion of video as a mirror to create a psychological self-portrait. Devising...

    Mirroring
  • 1970
    Fire! Hendrix

    Fire! Hendrix

    Fire! Hendrix

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    Commissioned by VideoGram International, Ltd., for a videodisc of music by Jimi Hendrix, Fire! uses the stylized visuals and pacing of a music video...

    Fire! Hendrix
  • 1980
    PM Magazine/Acid Rock

    PM Magazine/Acid Rock

    PM Magazine/Acid Rock

    01980HD

    Appropriating material from the introduction to the nightly television show, PM Magazine and a commercial for Wang Computers, Birnbaum uses enlarged...

    PM Magazine/Acid Rock
  • 1980
    Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

    Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

    Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

    01980HD

    Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a...

    Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
  • 1979
    Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

    Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

    Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

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    Constructed of footage recorded from the television game show Hollywood Squares. The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory gestures...

    Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry
  • 1980
    Pop Pop Video

    Pop Pop Video

    Pop Pop Video

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    "Dara Birnbaum's Pop-Pop Video... [has] been hailed as [a] classic of the new wave. [The tape] juxtaposes fragments from a soap opera with sequences...

    Pop Pop Video
  • 1987
    Damnation of Faust Trilogy

    Damnation of Faust Trilogy

    Damnation of Faust Trilogy

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    1. Damnation of Faust: Evocation - Using "found" imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the...

    Damnation of Faust Trilogy
  • 1998
    Jodie

    Jodie

    Jodie

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    Friedman documents a model during a fashion shoot, the exaggerated, staccato rhythms of her camera punctuated by machine-gun like bursts of fireworks...

    Jodie