Rachel Rosenthal

Peter y Katherine Witner son unos súper yuppies del sur de California con grandes empleos pero sin centro en sus vidas. Cuando ambos pierden sus trabajos comienzan las infidelidades maritales, su solución es comenzar su propio negocio juntos. Para encontrar significado a sus vidas vacías, ellos siguen a varios gurús de la Nueva Era ...

Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks sufficient mediation. Video retrieves lost memories for the child who, through her camera, seeks to find her father.

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of the Hollywood image-making industry from a pastiche of narrative cliches: A small-town ingenue goes West to find her dream and loses her innocence; the patriarch of a Hollywood studio nears death; a New York couple seeks screenwriting fame and fortune in the movies. With deadpan humor and hyperbolic visual stylization, the Yonemotos layer artifice upon artifice, constructing an image-world where reality and representation, truth and simulation, are meaningless distinctions.

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Paul y Jennifer Montgomery son una pareja de coleccionistas de arte que están hastiados de la rutina de su vida. Un día, reciben la visita de una vendedora de cosméticos y la invitan a participar en sus "juegos", que están relacionados con el sexo y la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)