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Robert Attanasio

Attanasio has been making films and video for over 20 years. Not From Concentrate was included in the Whitney Biennial in 1997. Rubber Crutches was included in Big As Life, a historical retrospective of 8 mm film work in the US at the Museum of Modern Art.
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