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Personal Statements in Video

Personal Statements in Video exhibition. New American Makers. Opera Plaza Cinema.

Excerpts from program notes: "These videos are personal statements by their authors that reflect their take on the world, their relationships, and their place in our society. BARBARA ROSENTHAL "Fingernails and Other Shorts" offers short videos from dry wit to zany goof, using toys, puppets and primitive music. MARSHALL WEBER "A Roman Empire" presents a travelogue analogy of empire... then and now. LYNN HERSHMAN "First Person Plural," BARBARA HAMMER and PAULA LEVINE "Two Bad Daughters" uses child-like play to sabotage and subvert patriarchal Institutions, and MARILYN WULFF "Little Stories" a naive and funny account of people she knew while growing up."

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"Personal Statements in Video." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/personal-statements-video.

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Personal Statements in Video was an exhibition in the New American Makers series at Opera Plaza Cinema; program notes state the works are personal statements by their authors that reflect their take on the world, their relationships and their place in society. Featured works and artists include Barbara Rosenthal, Fingernails and Other Shorts, described as short videos from dry wit to zany goof using toys, puppets and primitive music; Marshall Weber, A Roman Empire, presented as a travelogue analogy of empire; Lynn Hershman, First Person Plural; Barbara Hammer and Paula Levine, Two Bad Daughters, using child-like play to sabotage and subvert patriarchal Institutions; and Marilyn Wulff, Little Stories, a naive and funny account of people she knew while growing up.

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Last modified 16 May 2011