Landmarks Video Archive

Landmarks Video presents the most highly regarded and influential works of video art from the past six decades. This page is an archive of every work presented as part of the Landmarks Video program and includes curatorial essays, images, and other contextual information. 

Please note that some videos may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Hannah Wilke
A woman manipulating her own eyelids.
Gestures
1974

Video
35:30 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited April 2016
David Wojnarowicz
A flaming globe
A Fire in My Belly (A Work in Progress)
1986–87

Super 8mm film on video
20:55 min., color and b&w, silent
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited May 2018
Ezra Wube
A still from Ezra Wube's "Mela"
Mela
2011

HD Video
01:43 min., color, silent
Courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibited May 2023
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
Film still of man and woman embracing
Vault
1984

Video
11:45 min., color, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited November 2012
Héctor Zamora
Potted plants thrown out of a window into a large plaza
O Abuso da História (The Abuse of History)
2014

Video
01:52 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Luciana Brito Galeria, 
São Paulo, Brazil

Exhibited February 2018