MANUFACTURING CONSENT:NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA
"In an energetic fusion of images and ideas, this two-volume video explores the political life and ideas of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam Chomsky. Highlighting Chomsky's analysis and criticisms of the media, Manufacturing Consent focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Shocking examples of media deception permeate Chomsky's critique of the forces at work behind the daily news" (-NFB website)
ACHBAR, Mark & Peter WINTONICK
1992
DVD
English w/optional French, German & Spanish subtitles
Documentary (D)
M368 1992 DVD
STEP ACROSS THE BORDER
music musicians
PENZEL, Werner & HUMBERT, Nicolas
DAME
1990
Cine Nomad (Producer)Nicolas Humbert Werner PenzelFred Frith
VHS
German
Documentary (D)
S83990a
NIGHTLINE: DEEP DIVE
"How does the process of designing a better product work? To show you, Nightline went to Palo Alto, CA to the designers at IDEO, and gave them the toughest problem we could think of. Take something old and familiar like the shopping cart and completely redesign it in just five days. IDEO's unique brand of brainstorming is called 'Deep Dive', a sort of total immersion into the problem at hand. It's one company's secret weapon for innovation" (-abcnewstore.go.com)
ABC NEWS
1999
DVD
English
Documentary (D)
1522
N53999aDVD
INTRICATE KALEIDOSCOPE CANING
beads designs jewellery
Instructional film on the use of Skinner blends and kaleidoscope caning with polymer clay (Fimo, etc.)
ABDU, Steve
Abba Dabba
2004
Director: Steve Abdu; producer, editor: Bette Abdu;
DVD
English
Instructional (I)
I57004aDVD
INTRICATE KALEIDOSCOPE CANING
Instructional film on the use of Skinner blends and kaleidoscope caning with polymer clay (Fimo, etc.)
ABDU, Steve
2004
DVD
English
Instructional (I)
2965
I57004aDVD
LAMENT OF THE SUGAR BUSH MAN
Sugar maple
Environment
Pollution
"Sulfur dioxide and acid rain have had a severely detrimental effect on the forest ecosystem and are the chief causes of the decline of the sugar maple stands. In this videotape, a maple sugar farmer sings a lament about the loss of his family farm. For him, the sugar bush respresented not only a livelihood, but a way of life. He blames industry, government, and himself for its destruction and realizes that the death of his maples is the beginning of the death of much more" (-Video liner notes)
ABRAMS, Rhonda
Art Metropole
Art Metropole
1987
Produced by: Rhonda Abrams; Music & Lyrics: John McKeown, Rhonda Abrams; Singer: John McKeown; Fiddler: Kirk Elliott; Camera: Rhonda Abrams; Sound Recordist: Rodney Werden; Production Assistant: Michael Balser; Post Production: Rodney Werden
VHS
English
Artist Video (V)
A27987a
LAMENT OF THE SUGAR BUSH MAN
environment
death
farmers
"Sulfur dioxide and acid rain have had a severely detrimental effect on the forest ecosystem and are the chief causes of the decline of the sugar maple stands. In this videotape, a maple sugar farmer sings a lament about the loss of his family farm. For him, the sugar bush respresented not only a livelihood, but a way of life. He blames industry, government, and himself for its destruction and realizes that the death of his maples is the beginning of the death of much more" (-Video liner notes)
ABRAMS, Rhonda
1987
Produced by: Rhonda Abrams; Music & Lyrics: John McKeown, Rhonda Abrams; Singer: John McKeown; Fiddler: Kirk Elliott; Camera: Rhonda Abrams; Sound Recordist: Rodney Werden; Production Assistant: Michael Balser; Post Production: Rodney Werden
3/4"
English
Artist Video (V)
V-7
THE MYTH OF THE FISHES
ABRAMS, Rhonda
1986
3/4"
Artist Video (V)
V-7
Paradise Now
Said and Khaled are walking time bombs. With explosives strapped to their bodies, the two young Palestinians slip into Israel, planning a suicide mission in Tel Aviv.
Can anything or anyone change their minds? Paradise Now – sweepingly powerful and intricately detailed, highly acclaimed and widely controversial – tells the story of these two lifelong friends and their mission of doom. Hany Abu-Assad (the award-winning Rana's Wedding) director, shooting this harrowing thriller in locations made equally harrowing by real-life missile attacks, exploding land mines, suspicious Palestinian factions and Israeli occupied forces, and the kidnapping of a crew member.
The result is a film that know its topic up close and provides no easy answers. Instead, Paradise Now lays bare the humanity and the horror for all to see, to ponder…and perhaps to change.
Abu-Assad, Hany
Augustus Films
2005
DVD
Arabic with English, Spanish and French subtitles
Feature Film (F)
P37 2005 DVD
[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] RED TAPES, THE
Performance
Identity
Cultural landscapes
The Red Tapes is Acconci's masterwork, a three-part epic that is one of the major works in video. Designed originally for video projection, the work is structured to merge video space—the close-up—with filmic space—the landscape. Acconci maps a topography of the self within a cultural and social context, locating personal identity through history, cultural artifacts, language and representation. Stating that the work moves "from Vito Acconci to a larger Americanism, between a psychological personal space and a cultural personal space," he constructs a dense, poetic text in this search for self and America.
Opening with the image of Acconci, blindfolded, the tapes evolve as a complex amalgam of narrative strategies, photographic images, music and spoken language. The formal system is the alteration of blank screen and image; grey screen is paired with voice, which leads to image, which leads back to grey screen with voice, etc. In Tape 1: Common Knowledge, the focus is on representation and self (as Acconci is seen in close-up), landscape is a photographic image, and the narrative is that of a mystery story. Tape 2: Local Color is essayistic, analytical; the perspective is widened, the body is seen in context, architectural and sculptural space become manifestations of the psychological. In the conclusion, Tape 3: Time Lag, the space is theatrical and the action is communication, as Acconci and actors act out a "rehearsal of America." From the autobiographical to the social, from the "I" to the "we," through the discourses of literature, psychoanalysis, cinema, art and popular culture, The Red Tapes is an extraordinary chronicle in which Acconci locates the self within the mythic constructions of culture and history.
(-Electronic Arts Intermix website)
ACCONCI, Vito
Jan Peacock
s.n.
1976
Creator: Vito Acconci; with Ericka Beckman, Ilona Granet, Richie O'Halloran, Kathy Rusch, David Salle, Michael Zwack;Camera: Ed Bowes; Sound: Tom Bowes; Music: Charles Ives
VHS
English
Artist Video (V)
A33976a