Bruce Yonemoto Trailers
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Most Popular Bruce Yonemoto Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
Green Card: An American Romance Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable her to remain in the United States.
Kappa Trailer (1986)
17 June 1986
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire.
Framed Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.
Vault Trailer (1984)
12 June 1984
In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl.
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A. Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.
Garage Sale Trailer (1976)
10 September 1976
GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero.
Far East of Eden Trailer (2016)
31 December 2016
This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on the racism of the Center’s founder, James D.
A History of Clouds Trailer (1991)
28 February 1991
The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless nature remains elusive and opaque.
Garage Sale II Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and a series of vignettes in which characters attempt to fulfil their desires through prosthetics, masturbation, manipulation and S&M.
Blinky Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in the Los Angeles S.
Cosmopolitan Trailer (2022)
20 March 2022
Focusing predominantly on Mexico City, this new work is an exploration of immigration and the ways in which different cultures intertwine or remain separate, via the prism of ethnic cuisines and the history of food.
Barravento Novo Trailer (2017)
09 November 2017
Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature, Barravento, from 1962—and his daughter, Camila Pitanga, a well-known actor and filmmaker working today.
Before I Close My Eyes Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
This video focuses on three contemporary Vietnamese men, dressed in Vietnam War-era uniforms, as they watch a recording of the historic televised suicide of Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức, the Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963, an act of protest that shocked the world and ultimately led to the demise of the American-supported Diem regime.
Sounds Like the Sound of Music Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of Salzberg with Incan ruins and Julie Andrews with a young Andean boy.
Based on Romance Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to explore how mass media formulas manipulate desire and sexuality, fantasy and reality.
Panpanorama Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
PANPANORAMA features the famous “kiss” in Alfred Hitchcockʼs VERTIGO. The locations which panoramically circle around the lovers in VERTIGO are replaced with tracking shots from famous scenes in classic films from all over the world.
Japan in Paris in L.A. Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes, only to find that ethnic and cultural differences stand in his way.
Made in Hollywood Trailer (1990)
20 October 1990
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
ahistory Trailer (1992)
04 April 1992
Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis, London Bridge – are reflected in the glossy surface of a 1960s Cadillac convertible, the ultimate symbol of the “golden age” of American consumerism.
Papa (The Original Potato Eaters) Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Potatoes, indigenous to the farmlands of Andean Peru serve as the principle metaphor in this revisionist documentary.
