Steve Reinke Trailers
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Most Popular Steve Reinke Trailers
Total trailers found: 35
Sundown Trailer (2023)
07 September 2023
In Sundown, the acclaimed Canadian video artist Steve Reinke reflects on mortality and overlapping timescales by way of Nietzsche, Gordon Lightfoot, and other markers of moments in a life, whether retrospective exhibitions or new tattoos.
Anal Masturbation and Object Loss Trailer (2003)
22 January 2003
The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books.
Hobbit Love Is the Greatest Love Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
A desktop video in five parts that modestly propose ways of existing with or against history and politics.
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Continues the journey from the final sequence of Ask the Insects. We turn away from the graveyard, enter the schoolyard, approach the old crippled tree spinning and sit under it to draw a little cartoon for the New Yorker, while — through some sort of temporal displacement — New Year’s resolutions are being made.
When We Were Monsters Trailer (2020)
26 January 2020
The starting point was a video tape of projection footage made by the artist Gretchen Bender, who turned clinical images of infections, deformities, and morbid injuries into an abject flicker film.
Music at Night Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
A five-minute video collaboration between Dani Leventhal and Steve Reinke.
Libidinal Empathy Trailer (2019)
22 September 2019
A found footage montage of young men who elicit, in various ways, an empathic response from the viewer that also carries a strongly libidinal charge.
The Hundred Videos #2 Trailer (1996)
08 August 1996
The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996.
What weakens the flesh is the flesh itself Trailer (2017)
13 May 2017
A film tribute, portrait and investigation of the set designer, photographer and actor Albrecht Becker.
Atheists Need Theology, Too Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
"Atheists Need Theology, Too, the first of seven videos, begins with a poem by Emily Dickinson, To fill a Gap / Insert the Thing that caused it — .
Andy Trailer (1998)
25 June 1998
In a peculiar combination of eroticism and design asthetics, an attractive young man pleasures himself in his living room while a disembodied voice describes the decor.
The Hundred Videos #5 Trailer (1996)
08 August 1996
The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996.
An Arrow Pointing to a Hole Trailer (2020)
30 September 2020
In this wry confessional video, Steve Reinke appears—shirtless and lavishly tattooed—in a basement, playing archival clips and delivering arch disquisitions on his filmmaking and the ways in which images represent his engagement with the world.
Barely Human Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Canadian Steve Reinke takes brief images from gay porn and turns them into something lyrical and resonant.
Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
"We know the air is filled with vibrations we can't hear. We can't consider environment as an objecte
The Hundred Videos #1 Trailer (1996)
08 August 1996
The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996.
Beaver Skull Magick Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Two sections. In the first, the notorious internet video Shake the Bear, in which a woman shoots and kills a bear and has sex on the body, is described and commented scene by scene.
Rib Gets in the Way Trailer (2014)
19 October 2014
Reinke’s excess of images, language, connections and suggestions creates a cinematic essay on life’s questions.
Devotional Cinema Trailer (2019)
22 September 2019
The artist is inspired the day after seeing Nathaniel Dorsky's "Arboretum Cycle" to make a video engaging with the natural, botanical world.
The Hundred Videos #4 Trailer (1996)
08 August 1996
The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996.
Semen Is the Piss of Dreams Trailer (2017)
07 October 2017
In Reinke’s latest provocation, the words of author Hervé Guibert are made flesh through a montage of “human events” that work to collapse the boundaries between the private and public, the perverse and the prosaic.
Lonely Boy Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
"Lonely Boy" condenses and combines two films: Wolf Koenig's classic NFB documentary on Paul Anka (also titled Lonely Boy) and a classic gay porn loop from the late 70's The Summer of Kip Noll.
A Day for Cake and Accidents Trailer (2013)
21 June 2013
A short film that features a cast of animal characters -- each of a different, though often indeterminate, species -- who struggle with impending astrological despair and engage in absurdist dialogs, confessing various melancholic desires and transgressive secrets in poetic cartoon abjection.
A Boy Needs a Friend Trailer (2015)
01 July 2015
Steve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subjects of friendship and intimacy in A Boy Needs A Friend, in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship.
Video to Placate Artaud Trailer (2019)
22 September 2019
A videotape to placate the 20th century artist Antonin Artaud, who was not very calm. Certainly transgression and nervous energies/violent impulses once went hand-in-hand, but perhaps today requires a calmer, more considered approach.
The Hundred Videos #3 Trailer (1996)
08 August 1996
The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996.
Instructions for Recovering Forgotten Childhood Memories Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
The 35th video in Steve Reinke's "The Hundred Videos" project.
Blood and Cinnamon Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
A group of forest creatures witnesses a diabolical birth that causes unrest, while animals discuss their disintegrating bodies and psyches as they undergo different transformations.
Excuse of the Real Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Steve Reinke ironically adopts the position of a mainstream documentary filmmaker making a film tracing the slow death of a person with AIDS.
The Tiny Ventriloquist Trailer (2012)
27 November 2012
"In the first shot of Reinke’s new feature length video, we see the desert landscape of the American Southwest from a car window.
Afternoon (March 22, 1999) Trailer (1999)
22 March 1999
The artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist.
Charming Mutt Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
I once had a lover who would occasionally transform into a dog — and not even a purebred. Instead, some patchwork mutt of scrappy fur — but not without charm, not without beauty.
Make Heaven Crowded Trailer (2026)
25 April 2026
You realize, once again, that your life is structured around horrible, false fantasies. That what you most deeply believe are things that can't be reasonable, good, or productive.
Everybody Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Animals debate the sticky subject of body dysmorphia and the merits of reconstructive surgery in this short animation.
