New York State Council on the Arts Movie Trailers
Most Popular New York State Council on the Arts Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
Maya Deren's Sink Trailer (2011)
05 January 2011
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film.
Tongues Trailer (1982)
10 August 1982
A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while delivering his own last rites.
Working Girls Trailer (1987)
27 February 1987
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
Homemade TV: Vasulkas II Trailer (1975)
01 September 1975
Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic image.
Heaven and Earth and Joe Davis Trailer (2011)
29 April 2011
Filmmaker Peter Sasowsky examines the life and work of artist Joe Davis
Split Decision Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation.
What I'm Looking For Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves.
Homemade TV: The Electronic Image Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video feedback art.
Cinderella Trailer (1986)
16 April 1986
“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of repetitions where CINDERELLA is projected back and forth like a ping-pong ball between the hearth and the castle.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Trailer (2012)
08 March 2012
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV +) and their wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.
Fannie's Film Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings.
Kiki Trailer (2016)
03 April 2016
25 years after Paris is Burning, we dive back into the fierce world of voguing battles in the Kiki scene of New York City, where competition between Houses demands leadership, painstaking practice, and performances on point.
Borders Trailer (1989)
05 May 1989
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas.
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP Trailer (2012)
06 June 2012
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic.
Ancient of Days Trailer (1982)
12 October 1982
Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time.
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Driven by a quest to capture a landscape reduced to flatness and sky, Viola travels to Chott El-Djerid.
The Reflecting Pool Trailer (1979)
05 December 1979
Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital piece; in it, Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an artificial pool.
Migration (for Jack Nelson) Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature and consciousness.
