Made in Hollywood
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...
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Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.
See moreJapan in Paris in L.A.
Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic...
See moreGarage Sale II
Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and a...
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Focusing predominantly on Mexico City, this new work is an exploration of immigration and the ways in which different cultures intertwine or remain...
See moreKappa
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss...
See moreGarage Sale
GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...
See moreBefore I Close My Eyes
This video focuses on three contemporary Vietnamese men, dressed in Vietnam War-era uniforms, as they watch a recording of the historic televised...
See moreFar East of Eden
This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on the...
See moreBarravento Novo
Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature...
See moreVault
In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl...
See moreFramed
Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S...
See moreSounds Like the Sound of Music
Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of...
See moreBased on Romance
This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to...
See morePanpanorama
PANPANORAMA features the famous “kiss” in Alfred Hitchcockʼs VERTIGO. The locations which panoramically circle around the lovers in VERTIGO are...
See moreBlinky
In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in...
See moreahistory
Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis...
See moreGreen Card: An American Romance
Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable...
See moreA History of Clouds
The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless...
See morePapa (The Original Potato Eaters)
Potatoes, indigenous to the farmlands of Andean Peru serve as the principle metaphor in this revisionist documentary. Papa replicates Vincent Van...
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