Douglas Davis Movies

Douglas Davis presents his interpretations of The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Napoleon in the triptych style of the finale of...

In Street Sentences from 1972, Davis invites passersby to spontaneously give a personal statement to the camera. The result is a collage of...

Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

In his video »The Austrian Tapes«, Douglas Davis examines the medium of television. It was realized for a video symposium and the...

This performance, presented for German TV's first live satellite transmission marking the opening of the Documenta VI in Kassel on 24 June 1977, is a...

Structurally, Three Silent & Secret Acts corresponds extensively to the work that followed, Reading Brecht in 3/4 Time: the performance takes place...

Short movie by Douglas Davis.

Perhaps no artist and fellow media theorist worked so fastidiously in the vein of McLuhan as Douglas Davis, albeit directly contrary to what he...