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  33rd & La Salle

  Chicago

  An experimental piece documenting the wrecking of a building on 33rd and LaSalle in Chicago.

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  The Artaud Project

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Performance, Roots of Video

  Video recording of The Artaud Project at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, January 25, 1980. The performance combined a live performance with an actor playing Antonin Artaud with several monitors displaying other footage. Many readings of Artaud’s work are incorporated.

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  [Mexican Art Gallery – Green Card lottery winner]

  Arts & Culture, Judith Binder, Latinx

  This video shows a Mexican art gallery in Los Angeles which exhibits the works of a family of artists who live in Mexico City. Several generations of the Linares family continue the tradition of Pedro Linares, who created alebrijes, with are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. Later in the video is a separate segment featuring a brief interview with an immigrant who was a winner of the green card lottery, who speaks mostly about her time in this country as an immigrant.

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  Christo Umbrellas

  Judith Binder

  This video has footage of Christo’s yellow umbrella installation in Southern California in the early 1990s. There is some explanation of the project by an on-site worker as well as its sister project near Tokyo, Japan.

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  [Inner City Art]

  Judith Binder

  This video starts out with the videomaker Judith Binder going to a nail salon. She then visits Inner-City Art, an after-school type program for children going to school in the inner city. Following this she goes to Venice Beach and talks with a few homeless people and then tapes along the Boardwalk.

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  Feminist Porn: Gynamite, #1

  Judith Binder, Performance

  This is a tape that mostly has the performances of several people in an open microphone event called Feminist Porn: Gynamite.

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  The Trouble With Peggy

  Chicago, Performance

  A live performance of Donna Blue Lachman’s one-woman show, “The Problem with Peggy: Pieces of Guggenheim” performed at the Blue Rider Theatre.

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  …living in the city

  Chicago

  William Chayes’s “…living in the city.” This experimental Super-8 film is a meditation on the speed of life in the city. The film uses time lapse motion editing techniques.