Dara Birnbaum Movies
- 2009
We Live in Public
We Live in Public72009HD
In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time...
- 1978
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman5.61978HD
The video opens with a barrage of explosive imagery along with an audio track of a siren taken from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman. The following...
- 1987
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art51987HD
This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...
- 1980
Local TV News Analysis
Local TV News Analysis01980HD
Local TV News Analysis is the document of a collaborative project of Graham and Birnbaum, in which they investigate local television news, both in...
- 1976
Liberty: A Dozen or So Views
Liberty: A Dozen or So Views01976HD
In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue...
- 1987
Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.
Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.41987HD
1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of...
- 1975
Mirroring
Mirroring01975HD
“In this early performance-based work, Birnbaum investigates the notion of video as a mirror to create a psychological self-portrait. Devising...
- 1970
Fire! Hendrix
Fire! Hendrix01970HD
Commissioned by VideoGram International, Ltd., for a videodisc of music by Jimi Hendrix, Fire! uses the stylized visuals and pacing of a music video...
- 1980
PM Magazine/Acid Rock
PM Magazine/Acid Rock01980HD
Appropriating material from the introduction to the nightly television show, PM Magazine and a commercial for Wang Computers, Birnbaum uses enlarged...
- 1980
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes01980HD
Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a...
- 1979
Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry
Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry01979HD
Constructed of footage recorded from the television game show Hollywood Squares. The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory gestures...
- 1980
Pop Pop Video
Pop Pop Video01980HD
"Dara Birnbaum's Pop-Pop Video... [has] been hailed as [a] classic of the new wave. [The tape] juxtaposes fragments from a soap opera with sequences...
- 1987
Damnation of Faust Trilogy
Damnation of Faust Trilogy01987HD
1. Damnation of Faust: Evocation - Using "found" imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the...
- 1998
Jodie
Jodie01998HD
Friedman documents a model during a fashion shoot, the exaggerated, staccato rhythms of her camera punctuated by machine-gun like bursts of fireworks...