Black Is

Black Is

To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black...

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Winner of the New England Film Festival, Best Experimental Film 2005; Winner of the Syracuse International Film Festival, Best Experimental 2006...

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Black Trip

Black Trip

Through the uses of kinescope, video, multimedia, and direct painting on film, an impression is gained of the frantic action of protoplasm under a...

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Black TV

Black TV

Black TV is the title of Tambellini’s best-known videographic film, which is part of a large intermedia project about American television. Compiled...

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The Medium Is the Medium

The Medium Is the Medium

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...

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Cathodic Works

Cathodic Works

"Presenting, for the first time, a selection of the cathodic experimental works from the seminal Italo-American artist Aldo Tambellini; A selection...

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Blackout

Blackout

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities...

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Tambellini: Communications from Other Space

Tambellini: Communications from Other Space

M. Woods, a mentee of Aldo Tambellini, conducted the only interview with him in virtual reality. This interview has been expanded to include an...

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Black Matters

Black Matters

Black Matters is the first full solo exhibition of American artist, Aldo Tambellini, who is one of the pioneers of intermedia art of the 1960s and...

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After spending years working at MIT and having left the NYC art scene of the 1960s, Tambellini, like many artists, experienced a time of less...

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Black Video 3

Black Video 3

This work was recently discovered and will have its world premiere at AAFF. A free-wheeling, long-form trance as Tambellini distorts the imagery...

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Black Out

Black Out

Tambellini’s symbolic exploration directly on film reaches its chaotic heights as the painted circle and his iconic spiral intermingle with...

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The Screw

The Screw

Video documentation of Tambellini’s 1963 performance art piece, The Screw, a biting satire aimed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum...

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Black

Black

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIUM is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...

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Sunblack

Sunblack

The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...

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Black '67

Black '67

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities...

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Clone

Clone

Clone creates a non-narrative sensory experience where TV images repeat, cloning themselves sometimes with mutations. The sound in Clone is the...

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Minus 1

Minus 1

This videotape was originally made in the television studio in Rochester, NY on a 2-inch Quad broadcast tape in 1969 with a grant from the New York...

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Black Video 1 Projections

Black Video 1 Projections

Video by Aldo Tambellini.

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Black Spiral

Black Spiral

A high-contrast spiraling white light [which] shimmers, radiates, contracts, twists in orgasmic ecstasy, dwindles to nothing, and blazes forth...

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