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ACTION ART OF HERMANN NITSCH
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Austrian actionist, painter, and composer Hermann Nitsch is the focus of this    multimedia release. The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch includes a DVD that   provides a four-hour overview of Nitsch's Aktionen, or Actions, from       1962 through 2003. The CD contains recordings of a Burgtheater performance     from 2005. Also included is an 80-page book in German and English, featuring   photos and text from Florian Schreiner that helps to explain the theory behind Nitsch's work. Published in 2007.
ART GUYS PRESENT HOME ON THE RANGE, THE
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"A cross between Dada, David Letterman, John Cage and the Smothers Brothers" (The New York Times). This two-disc set includes the documentary Nothing to It: The Art Guys in Concert (W. Ross Wells, 2009, 78 mins.) and "Video Works 1984-2008" (71 mins.), which finds the Texas duo of Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing onstage blending performance, visual, and comic art into something wholly their own.
AS SHE LIKES IT
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This compilation features the work of twelve Austrian artists from 1970 to       2004. Happenings, actionism, and feminist performance art are combined in this   rich display of physical and filmic power. Find pieces by Miriam Bajtala,        Carola Dertnig, Kerstin Cmelka, Maria Lassnig and Hubert Sielecki, Barbara     Musil, Karo Szmit, Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring, Ulrike Muller, Fiona      Ruckschcio, and Michaela Poschl.                                               Austria---71 mins.
ASPECT IX CHRONICLE NEW MEDIA
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This edition of ASPECT centers on the wide varieties of what is termed "performance art." From the traditional styles involving just one model subject to more complex works integrating electronic media, passersby and inanimate objects, these filmed performances reflect differing views on the artist's relationship with the world around him. The works included on this DVD are: Undertow (Marilyn Arsem, USA, 2005, 5 mins.); Opera for a Small Room (Janet Cardiff, USA, 2005, 14 mins.); Folly Series (Rob List, USA, 2003, 4 mins.); 365 Performances (Jamie McMurry, USA, 2006, 10 mins.); Pull, Dagger, Night Spider, Scuttle (Julia Oldham, USA, 2006, 1 min.); Black or White (Marisa Olson, USA, 2006, 4 mins.); CrossingOver (Tanja Ostojic, USA, 2001, 7 mins.); Alternative Interfaces (Stelarc, USA, 2003, 7 mins.); Whenever On On On Nohow On/Airdrawing (Peter Welz, USA, 2004, 8 mins.) and Don (Nina Yuen,
BLAST!
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A new concept in live entertainment, Blast is an explosive musical         celebration that combines elements of marching bands, ballet, and vaudeville     sketches. Set to music that includes Maurice Ravel's Bolero, Aaron         Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Chuck Mangione's Land of Make       Believe, this performance showcases the talents of 68 trained athletes and  world class musicians. 2001, 115 mins.
BROTHER BREAD, SISTER PUPPET
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The Bread and Puppet Theater has become famous in America over the last 30 years for its street theater and political satire utilizing giant papier-mache puppets, masks, and 12-foot-high stilt walkers. This documentary focuses on their annual Domestic Resurrection Circus, a summer weekend presentation at their northern Vermont home. The video features performance highlights and interviews with Bread and Puppet founder/director Peter Schumann, group members, and volunteers, who discuss the group's theatrical concepts and         Jim Farber---USA---1993---60 mins.
BURNING MAN FESTIVAL
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A massive manifestation of the counterculture, the Burning Man Festival is an    annual, five-day celebration--described as a "neo-galactic, space-tribe          freakout"--that takes place in the desert of Nevada and attracts over 15,000     people who simply want to be a part of it. There are non-stop artistic         endeavors, outrageous clothing, nudists, musicians and, of course, those       seeking a "higher" consciousness. It all builds to a climactic burning of a    towering figure that marks the location of the anything-goes village of the      moment. This entertaining film captures all of the joyful madness.             Joe Winston---USA---1996---45 mins.
CAMELOT: LIVE ON BROADWAY
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Richard Harris plays King Arthur in this lauded version of Lerner and Lowe's     glorious Broadway classic staged at New York's Winter Garden Theater in 1982     and first aired on HBO. Meg Bussert and Richard Muenz play Queen Guenevere and   Sir Lancelot in this lavish production.                                        Marty Callner---USA---1982---147 mins.
CLUB MIDNIGHT
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"A mix of cutting-edge film and raw performance art" (New York Post). These six award-winning, interrelated films have screened at the Berlin, Athens and Houston Film Festivals, the National Gallery of Art, and Lincoln Center. Storyville Memory, Downtown Goddess, Dark Sequins, Light of the Body, and Wildfire transform the talents of women who performed in New York's freewheeling clubs of the '90s into dazzling female-centered digital film art. The women move from victimization to freedom in "a new nakedness no longer at war with spirituality and intelligence." (Isadora Duncan). Dennis Hopper’s voice-over of a poem by US poet laureate Charles Simic is heard on the signature film, Club Midnight, with Andrea Beeman and Bonnie Dunn onscreen vamping with noir angst, existential longing and vibrant strength. "A post-modern romp through a neo-feminist party" (Flavorpill).

Amy Greenfield---USA---2007---60 mins.
DAY IS DONE (MIKE KELLEY)
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Wow, where do we start? If Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Kenneth Anger, and Mr. Show had a three-way, we still wouldn't be doing justice to Mike Kelley's phantasmagoric collage-art-music-video installation staged in Chelsea in 2005. This re-edited version takes the original 50 vignettes and weaves them together into a semi-narrative inspired by photographs Kelley found in high school yearbooks. Goths, thugs, jocks, mean girls, hicks, vampires, motivational speakers, basketball games, formal dances, chicken dances, pageants, Satanic rituals, various years, and myriad subcultures get to frolic in the same frame. Get ready for "clusterfuck aesthetics" (Village Voice) and "a toxic carnival" (The New York Times). Music composed by Kelley and Scott Benzel Kelley. The full title is Day Is Done: Extracurricular Activity - Projective Reconstructions #2- 32.

Mike Kelley---USA---2006---169 mins.
DIE TODLICHE DORIS
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Groundbreaking avant-garde music artists Die Todliche Doris released their       first LP (the enigmatically titled " ") in 1981. In 1998, band founder           Wolfgang Muller decided to re-release the album with the music and lyrics        performed in signs and gestures rather than sounds. This DVD documents the     performance of this album by interpreters D. Tabbert and A. Schulz in what is  referred to as "deaf music." In German with English subtitles.                 Germany---1998---60 mins.
HENRY ROLLINS: TALKING FROM
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Punk rock icon and supreme storyteller Henry Rollins shows off his spoken word   gifts in two performances collected on this disc. In Talking from the         Box, taped in Hollywood in 1992, the former Black Flag singer tackles such    subjects as friendship, depression, ethnicity, love and life in L.A. during    the 1992 riots. Henry Rollins Goes to London features the artist at the  Astoria Theater in 1993, sharing captivating and personal stories with his     London fans. 120 mins.
JACKASS 3 (UNRATED)
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As if Borat weren't bad enough, Johnny Knoxville and the cast of MTV's Jackass head to Romania--among other places--to create their 3-D epic about "clothed, semi-naked and naked adult men, all apparently stuck in what Freud termed the anal, oral and phallic stages of development...raucously playful, uninhibited and affectionate..." (The NY Times).

Jeff Tremaine---USA---2010---94 mins.
LAURIE ANDERSON ON PERFORMANCE
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Innovative performance artist Laurie Anderson talks about her unique             visual/musical "storytelling" style in two separate interviews that accompany    highlights from exhibitions from 1984 and 1998. The first is a showing of        early pieces taped at the Queens Museum. The second is an installation at      Artists Space in New York City. From the ART/new york series.            Paul Tschinkel---USA---2001---55 mins.
MALACHI FARRELL AT WORK: THE MAKING OF LA GEGENE
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Malachi Farrell a l'oeuvre is a chronicle of the creation and execution of Malachi Farrell's mixed media artwork, La Gegene, which opened at France's MAC/VAL museum in 2007. Moving bodies, sculptures, projections, and sound merge in this loaded installation that brings the crimes perpetrated by the French during the Algerian War back to the spotlight.

France---2008---76 mins.
NAKED WORLD
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One year. Seven continents. More than 6,000 naked people--all willing to bare all for Spencer Tunick in the name of art. This globally scaled follow-up to the America Undercover documentary Naked States finds the celebrated and   controversial artist at work on his most ambitious project: a one-year trek to all seven continents to shoot people in the nude--individually, in groups and against various man-made and natural backdrops. Locations include Cape Town, South Africa; Galway City, County Galway, Ireland; London, England, UK; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; New York City, New York, USA; Paris, France; St. Petersburg, Russia; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and       Arlene Donnelly Nelson---USA---2003---76 mins.
ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE- HSIEH
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Tehching Hsieh is a most unusual artist whose medium of expression is not        paint, literature or music, but his own life. This DVD-ROM documents portions    of his life work: "performances" that range from one year to thirteen years in   length. One performance consisted of a year spent in near total isolation. For another, he punched a clock every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day for an      entire year. Other remarkable acts excerpted here include an entire year spent outdoors, a year tied to another person, a year without art, and a 13-year       record of survival. "For those of us who feel dedicated to making art, Hsieh's resolve and determination to repeatedly make work of such extreme duration     challenges our very definition of commitment, the word duration, and is a      truly humbling experience to witness" (Mike Stubbs).                             Tehching Hsieh---USA---2000
PETER WEIBEL, REWRITER
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A video archive of the "early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (conceptual) works, 1964-1975" of Austrian multimedia and performance artist, Peter Weibel. Edited by Aaron Levy and Osvaldo Romberg.

Peter Weibel---1964-1975---85 mins.
POETRY LOUNGE
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"The Lounge" is one of the largest weekly open mic poetry forums in the United   States and has attracted some of the most accomplished poets of the slam         movement. In this program, a talented group of 2004 National Slam Champions      performs their poetry at "The Lounge". Hosted by Def Poets Shihan and Poetri,  The Poetry Lounge is a terrific resource for fans of slam poetry and     those looking for tips on the fundamentals of writing and performing. USA,
PUPHEDZ: TATTLE-TALE HEART
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart gets a macabre reworking at the      hands of the Puphedz, a puppetry troupe whose antics are reminiscent of the      Grand Guignol school of theatre. Sappy fake blood drips between the laughter     as these creepy wooden puppets tackle Poe head on in a Dr. Caligari      inspired set. A must for any puppet freak. "Quirky and surreal" (Chandra       Palermo, Wicked Magazine).                                               Jurgen Heimann---USA---2003---61 mins.