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Episodes • 1985

Short Video Artworks

1. Short Video Artworks

28 min

Series premiere includes arts programs featuring works of leading avant-garde artists in video, music, dance, theater and film.

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Video Dance

2. Video Dance

28 min

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

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Smothering Dreams

3. Smothering Dreams

28 min

The program presents the 1981 Emmy-Awrd winning video about war, "Smothering Dreams", by video artist and Vietnam War veteran Dan Reeves.

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Comedy Video

4. Comedy Video

28 min

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

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Tongues

5. Tongues

28 min

A collaboration by playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin that deals with the elemental concepts of living, dying and rebirth. Chaikan performs a monologue of many different characters accompanied by percussion instruments.

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Summer Dances

6. Summer Dances

28 min

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

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A Personal History of the American Theatre

7. A Personal History of the American Theatre

28 min

Spalding Gray discusses his experiences working as a professional theater actor while sitting at a desk or table in the same manner as many of his filmed and theatrically released monologues.

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Artist's Music Videos

8. Artist's Music Videos

28 min

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

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