"From A to Z, Rosler 'shows and tells' the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the…
"Shuffle...is generally held to be a classic of early conceptual video work. In it, Waterman goes one-on-one with the physics of video technology. These are his notes on his work: 'The performer by scraping his feet continually on the rug…
"Susan was produced close to the end of Britton's studies at NSCAD. Shot on location in Halifax's Public Gardens andin her downtown apartment, the tape presents itself as a veritթ-style portrait of a prostitute (played by Britton) who reflects on her…
"'Art Sucks: Art-making is a process which sucks identity from individuals who are close to it, but not participating themselves. The only way to recover identity is to make art yourself. In early June, 1972, I captured the soul of Richards Jarden in…
"In... Springtime In Greenland (1981), Nick lives at home with his parents, his sister, and the family dog, Barky. At a family barbecue Nick becomes the unwitting rival of the overbearing and aptly named Corny Blower. Blower, like 'Connie' in…
"In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and…
"Simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the “Moral Tales” shows the stirrings of what would become the Eric Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironic first-person voice-over, and the image of the “unknowable” woman. A law student (played…
"Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when ladies’ man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and…
"A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, (Jean-Louis) lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he…
"A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.…
