Martha Rosler Trailers
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Most Popular Martha Rosler Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
Semiotics of the Kitchen Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Martha Rosler explores kitchen utensils by alphabet.
Backyard Economy 1 Trailer (1974)
05 September 1974
Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of mundane domestic chores.
Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural — "surrogate" — mother and father of a baby fought each other for custody of the child.
Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure Trailer (1980)
13 February 1980
Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District.
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial pages of Newsweek magazine.
Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing) Trailer (1974)
05 September 1974
short of a woman mowing a lawn
Domination and the Everyday Trailer (1978)
13 February 1978
In an inquiry into the relation between the corporation, the state and the family, Domination and the Everyday presents a fractured barrage of simultaneous sound tracks, film stills and a crawling text.
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained Trailer (1977)
02 January 1977
Taking aim at the social standardization enforced particularly on women's bodies, Rosler critiques the politics of "objective" or scientific evaluation that result in the depersonalization, objectification, and colonization of women and Others.
Flower Fields Trailer (1974)
05 September 1974
"This short film was intended to create a colour field painting based on the flower fields that provided the living for so many, mostly undocumented, workers in the area.
Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
A bouncy music-video burlesque shot in and around Santiago, Chile, entwines reminders of U.S. corporate presence and of past political terror, with national and international musical strains.
If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION Trailer (1985)
18 July 1985
In a fusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the confusion intentionally inserted into the news script.
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition Trailer (2011)
08 January 2011
In 2003, Rosler announced an open call for a live re-staging of her 1975 video Semiotics of the Kitchen, to be held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, for A Short History of Performance, Part II.
Martha Rosler: An Interview Trailer (1984)
08 February 1984
In this interview with Craig Owens the artist discusses her early family influences and her time at the University of California.
Because This Is Britain Trailer (2012)
08 February 2012
A visualization of phrases used by Prime Minister David Cameron during his Oxfordshire speech addressing the events of August 2011.
Seattle: Hidden Histories Trailer (1995)
27 December 1995
A series of one-minute interview-based spots Martha Rosler made with the American Indian community during her residence in Seattle from 1991 to 1995.
Losing: A Conversation with the Parents Trailer (1977)
13 February 1977
Treating the problem of anorexia nervosa from the parents' perspective, Rosler presents a mother and father speaking about the tragedy of their daughter's death as a result of dieting.
Prototype (God Bless America) Trailer (2006)
08 February 2006
A mechanical toy figure dressed as an American soldier bends and sways, playing God Bless America — the sentimental, unofficial, and highly favored national anthem during World War II — on a bugle.
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending Trailer (1977)
08 February 1977
Rosler uses the format of a cooking demonstration (as in Semiotics of the Kitchen) to address cultural transaction--the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures.
A Budding Gourmet Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
‘A cook can’t just mix things up’, says a woman with a typical Brooklyn accent while the camera shows sophisticated images from food and travel magazines.
Museums will eat your lunch Trailer (2013)
08 February 2013
In this silent video, still images of stores and residential buildings in New York City appear within a cutout template, based on the “giftbox heap” formed by the New Museum silhouette.
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France Trailer (1993)
08 February 1993
Shot in Firminy-Vert, a Le Corbusier Unité, or housing project, in south-central France, this work traces the building’s history through an engagement with the lives of its residents and traces of its past.
Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue" Trailer (1982)
13 December 1982
In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising.
