The TV Lab at WNET/13 Movie Trailers
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Total trailers found: 16
The Neighborhood Trailer (2001)
20 October 2001
Martin Scorsese revisits the Little Italy streets where he grew up, reflecting on how the neighborhood’s people, culture, and daily life shaped his outlook and influenced the stories he would later tell on film.
Mars: An Optic Aspic Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka.
Heartbeat Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
An early work by Bill & Louise Etra, with Peter Crown. Made with biotelemetry equipment and video synthesizer at the TV Lab, WNET, NYC.
Home Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Through eloquent portrayals of four different life experiences — birth, aging, marriage and the death of a parent — Home addresses how the dissolution of the nuclear family and the increasing control of daily life by institutions have affected the individual.
Skin Matrix Trailer (1984)
05 May 1984
Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of energy: electronic (light, video, computer), inorganic (dunes, rocks, mud), organic (wood, plants), human (skin, hair), individual (faces, eyes), imagination (sculpture, robot).
Video: The New Wave Trailer (1975)
24 December 1975
The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and "street" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video.
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God Trailer (1984)
01 November 1984
They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers.
Sound and Fury Trailer (2000)
25 October 2000
A documentary film released in 2000 about two American families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their deaf identity.
Bill Moyers' Journal: A Life Together – Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon Trailer (1993)
17 December 1993
Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey festival, in their Wilmot, NH hometown and their Eagle Pond farmhouse.
Giving Birth Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
This documentary examines childbirth practices in the United States through four couples experiencing pregnancy and delivery.
Creativity with Bill Moyers: Portrait of Maya Angelou Trailer (1982)
08 January 1982
In this documentary profile, Bill Moyers travels with Maya Angelou to Stamps, Arkansas, the segregated Southern town where she grew up.
Scape-Mates Trailer (1972)
27 July 1972
In one of his first experiments in video, Emshwiller creates an electronic landscape of both abstract and figurative elements, where colorized dancers are chroma-keyed into a mutable, computer-animated environment.
Smothering Dreams Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
An autobiographical video essay by Vietnam veteran Daniel Reeves exploring the psychological roots of war through memories of combat, childhood media imagery, and reflections on violence in American culture.
Meta Mayan Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Filmed in the Guatemalan Highlands during a 1980 journey, Edín Vélez’s experimental video essay offers a lyrical portrait of Mayan life.
Meaning of the Interval Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Filmed over a year in Japan, Edín Vélez’s experimental video essay examines the tension between tradition and modernity in Japanese culture.
Hatsu Yume (First Dream) Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.
