Movies

  • 2025
    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful

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    “DREADFUL PENNY DREADFUL dares to violate every remaining shred of ‘good taste’ using the vehicle of Brecht and Weill’s...

    Dreadful Penny Dreadful
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

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    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 1988
    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

    A Public Appearance and a Statement

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    In one incredibly long take we see the arrival and disappearance of John Kennedy's body as it is delivered from Dallas aboard Air Force One.

    A Public Appearance and a Statement
  • 1982
    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

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    Finally, manipulating the "natural" flow of the film image represents another kind of intrinsic interruption. I have in mind such devices as...

    Imitation of Life
  • 2024
    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

    Joan's Studio

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    An exploration of Joan Jonas’s studio in Nova Scotia in August 2019, by night with torch, but no spear. Special thanks to Peggy Ahwesh for...

    Joan's Studio
  • 1982
    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

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    “A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

    Palace of Error
  • 2015
    Energy of Delusion

    Energy of Delusion

    Energy of Delusion

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    My aim is to create a highly compressed museum of cinema, consisting of some of the most notoriously engaging, difficult, and lengthy works of film...

    Energy of Delusion
  • 2004
    Operation Double Trouble

    Operation Double Trouble

    Operation Double Trouble

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    A simple and, possibly as a result of this, effective reworking of a recent propaganda film. The original film is Enduring Freedom: The Opening...

    Operation Double Trouble
  • 2000
    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    For the Birds

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    Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call-after Bataille-«Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy.» The other two...

    For the Birds
  • 1997
    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    The Vision Machine

    01997HD

    Here Ahwesh's heterogeneous textual approach comes to the fore, as she juxtaposes narrative, faux documentary, comedic and "serious" footage, and...

    The Vision Machine