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Michael Snow, La Région centrale, 1971.
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A clip from Michael Snow's 180 minute film La Région centrale, 1971.
Serge Gainsbourg, "Lemon Incest" (1984)
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The video for Serge Gainsbourg's song "Lemon Incest" (1984) performed with his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Bruce McClure performance at REDCAT
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An untitled Bruce McClure performance at REDCAT, Los Angeles, September 29, 2009.
Vaginal Davis in That Fertile Feeling (Part Two)
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This short video features rebelious "Afro Sisters" Vaginal Creme Davis and Fertile Latoya Jackson.
Burma VJ: Monks in Exile Speak About the Saffron Revolution
Liza Béar
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New York, May 8, 2009—Three monks, leaders of the Saffron Revolution and now refugees in the US, openly discuss their participation in the 2007 uprising against the Burmese military junta portrayed in Anders Ostergaard's award-winning film Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. The monks belong to the All Burma Monks' Alliance, (ABMA) Utica, NY, whose goal is to support the many monks currently being held as political prisoners in Burmese jails, refugee monks who have escaped incarceration and torture, and to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. The film, Burma VJ, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.. See also the interview with Anders Østergaard and Khin Maung Win on this blog. [Both interviews filmed and edited by Liza Béar, squaringoff.blip.tv]
Sharon Hayes at the 2009 Creative Time Summit
Creative Time
2009, 20:04
Sharon Hayes discusses how moving to New York City in the early 1990s and witnessing the AIDS crises and artistic community has forever affected both her life and artistic practice during her keynote address at the 2009 Creative Time summit “Revolutions in Public Practice.”
Hollis Frampton, Critical Mass, 1971. (Excerpt)
Hollis Frampton
1971 (8:15)
"As a work of art I think [Critical Mass] is quite universal and deals with all quarrels (those between men and women, or men and men, or women and women, or children, or war. It is war! . . . It is one of the most delicate and clear statements––human relationships and the difficulties of them––that I have ever seen. It is very funny, and rather obviously so. It is a magic film in that you can enjoy it, with greater appreciation, each time you look at it. Most aesthetic experiences are not enjoyable on the surface. You have to look at them a number of times before you are able to fully enjoy them, but this one stands up at once, and again and again, and is amazingly clear." - Stan Brakhage
Vaginal Davis, Gossips #5, 2007
Christophe Chemin
2007, 8:54
Here, Vaginal Davis performs one of her famous gossip monologues. This is an extract from a video projected during Bruce LaBruce's "Fassbinder-Pasolini-Musical" Cheap Blacky.
Lynda Benglis
Whitney Museum of Art
2009, 2:20
First recognized for spill pieces such as Contraband, which she discusses here, Benglis explains how her materials relate to nature, chemistry, and cooking.
Stuart Sherman Interview, 1983. (Part Two)
Kestutis Nakas
1983, (9:54)
Stuart Sherman appears on Kestutis Nakas's Your Program of Programs in early 1983.
Jeff Keen, Flik Flak, 1963 (excerpt)
1963, 1:05
Fiercely independent and working primarily outside of the mainstream and avant-garde circuits, Keens' prolific output has embraced collage, live action, film, and animation––often played out as expanded cinema performances where chance and accident are vital components.
Jeremy Wade performs at "Pussy Faggot"
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Jeremy Wade performs as part of Earl Dax's evening "Pussy Faggot" at The Delancey in New York, January 14, 2010.

Music by Pete Drungle and Mike Skinner.
Video by Francis Legge.
Vaginal Davis in That Fertile Feeling (Part One)
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This short video features rebelious "Afro Sisters" Vaginal Creme Davis and Fertile Latoya Jackson.
Interview with filmmaker Mai Iskander of Garbage Dreams.
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Garbage Dreams runs at the IFC Center in New York through January 19.

New York, January 6, 2010—Shot over a four-year period, Mai Iskander's Garbage Dreams tracks the lives of three Zaballeen teenagers living in Mokattam, a garbage village on the outskirts of Cairo, at a time when their way of life and means of survival is being threatened.

The city of Cairo, with a population of eighteen million, has no waste disposal system. For over a century, a subculture of rural Coptic Christians from the south of Egypt has been collecting and recycling garbage. They are remarkably efficient , recycling 80 percent of the trash they collect from people's doorsteps. Now Cairo has hired three multinational waste disposal companies from Spain and Italy who are contractually required only to recycle 20 percent of what they collect and landfill the rest. The Zaballeen are therefore competing with technologically better-equipped (but less productive) companies for their raw material. Poignant, entertaining and enlightening,"Garbage Dreams" is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a close-knit community. It has won seventeen Best Documentary awards, including Nashville Film Festival's Reel Current award, selected by Al Gore, and has been shortlisted for an Oscar. To see a longer version of this interview, visit squaringoff.blip.tv. For more info about the film, www.garbagedreams.com.
Segment filmed by Liza Béar
Video from confrontation at Brunnenstraße 183, Berlin. November 24, 2009.
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November 27, 2009, takeover and protest at Brunnenstrasse 183, Berlin.
Corneliu Porumboiu, Police, Adjective, 2009. (Trailer)
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Official trailer for Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective, 2009.
Andy Warhol, Vinyl, 1965. (Excerpt)
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A clip of Gerard Malanga dancing to Martha and the Vandella's "Nowhere to Run" (1965) in Andy Warhol's and Ronald Tavel's Vinyl.
BURMA VJ: Anders Østergaard, Khin Maung Win Interview
Liza Béar
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BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country , directed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard uses camcorder and cellphone footage from undercover DVB reporters risking their lives. The story of the brutal quelling of the September 2007 monks' uprising is narrated by an unseen protagonist, Joshua, a twenty-seven-year-old reporter exiled in Thailand. A Sundance and Berlin festival award winner, the film has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Background—Burma, September 2007: An increase in fuel prices sparks extensive protests by students and activists against the military junta. For the first time, they are joined in the streets of Rangoon by thousands of Buddhist monks (the saffron revolution). While 100,000 people protest a repressive regime that has held the country hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews are banned and the Internet is shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 underground video journalists (VJs) record these dramatic events on handycams and cellphones and smuggle the footage out of the country, broadcasting it worldwide from Norway via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs document the brutal clashes by the military and undercover police — themselves becoming the targets of the authorities.

Interview with Anders Østergaard and Khin Maung Win, deputy director of the Democratic Voice of Burma in exile was filmed by Liza Béar and originally posted on www.squaringoff.blip.tv.
Trailer for Until the Light Takes Us (2009)
Variance Films
Until The Light Takes Us explores how Norwegian black metal rose to notoriety in the mid-1990s when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists, and music fans worldwide. To read the directors 500 Words with artforum.com click here.
WAGE WoManifesto
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WAGE, Working Artists and the Greater Economy, made this video to spread their manifesto around the world in advocacy of the rights of artists and art workers.
Sophia Peer, The Body Electric, 2009.
2009 (7:01)
A music video by Sophia Peer for the Baltimore-based band Ponytail.
Stuart Sherman Interview, 1983. (Part One)
Kestutis Nakas
1983 (5:52)
Stuart Sherman appears on Kestutis Nakas's Your Program of Programs in early 1983. The first part of interview features video by Sherman on a program deemed by the Village Voice as "nebulously cynical."
Ronnie Bass, The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, 2009. (Excerpt)
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The song I'm Afraid to Go Solo from Ronnie Bass's The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, 2009.
Screening Room with Hollis Frampton (1977)
Documentary Educational Resources
1977, 9:22
An interview with Hollis Frampton by Robert Gardner. Frampton was a major ﬁgure in the American experimental ﬁlm movement of the 1960s and '70s and a widely published theorist. He made such acclaimed and inﬂuential ﬁlms as Zorns Lemma (1970) the Hapax Legomena series (1971-72), and the unﬁnished Magellan. Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. The journal October twice devoted whole issues to Frampton, and the entire bodyof his ﬁlm work is preserved in the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
Leidy Churchman, Simultaneously, 2009
Leidy Churchman
2009, 6:38
A music video for the Brooklyn-based band MEN by artist Leidy Churchman. MEN is JD Samson, Michael O'Neill, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.
Thomas Nozkowski On a Hike
Casimir Nozkowski
7:40
The artist Thomas Nozkowski takes us on a hike to explain where he receives his inspiration.
Harry Smith, No. 10: Mirror Animations, 1957
Harry Smith Archives
3:34, 1957
Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an experimental filmmaker, musicologist, linguist, and occult theorist. For a 500 Words interview about Smith click here.
Blu, Muto, 2008.
2008, 7:26
The short film by street artist Blu with an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and Baden.
Aakash Nihalani, Cuban, 2008.
2008, 3:07
Aakash Nihalani installs street art throughout New York City. Music by Q-Tip.
Aretha Franklin performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
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Aretha Franklin performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

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