Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

The video opens with a barrage of explosive imagery along with an audio track of a siren taken from the 1970s TV show Wonder Woman. The following...

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Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

Liberty: A Dozen or So Views

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the...

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Local TV News Analysis

Local TV News Analysis

Local TV News Analysis is the document of a collaborative project of Graham and Birnbaum, in which they investigate local television news, both in...

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Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of...

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Mirroring

Mirroring

“In this early performance-based work, Birnbaum investigates the notion of video as a mirror to create a psychological self-portrait. Devising a...

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Fire! Hendrix

Fire! Hendrix

Commissioned by VideoGram International, Ltd., for a videodisc of music by Jimi Hendrix, Fire! uses the stylized visuals and pacing of a music...

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PM Magazine/Acid Rock

PM Magazine/Acid Rock

Appropriating material from the introduction to the nightly television show, PM Magazine and a commercial for Wang Computers, Birnbaum uses...

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Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a...

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Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

Kiss the Girls: Make them Cry

Constructed of footage recorded from the television game show Hollywood Squares. The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory...

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Pop Pop Video

Pop Pop Video

"Dara Birnbaum's Pop-Pop Video... [has] been hailed as [a] classic of the new wave. [The tape] juxtaposes fragments from a soap opera with...

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Damnation of Faust Trilogy

Damnation of Faust Trilogy

1. Damnation of Faust: Evocation - Using "found" imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the...

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Jodie

Jodie

Friedman documents a model during a fashion shoot, the exaggerated, staccato rhythms of her camera punctuated by machine-gun like bursts of...

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