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.

Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera
Love is a Rebellious Bird
2017

Single channel video
10:20 min., color, sound
Video donated by Dr. Scott J. Hunter

Cheryl Donegan
A woman in a bra with a plastic bag over her head
Artists + Models
1998

Video
04:43 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

John Edmonds
Screenshot of John Edmonds' "Shotgun"
Shotgun
2014

HD Video
TRT 9:53 min., color, no sound
Courtesy of the artist
 

Valie Export
Touch Cinema
1968

16mm film on video
01:08 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Kota Ezawa
Screenshot of Kota Ezawa's "Simpson Verdict." Three men in a cartoonish "flat-color" style look in different directions.
The Simpson Verdict
2002

Video
3:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Haines Gallery, San Francisco 

Cao Fei
Silhouetted arms and hands failing around
Shadow Life
2011

Video
10:00 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy of Cao Fei and Vitamin Creative Space

Fischli & Weiss
A still of Fischli & Weiss' "Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)"
Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)
1987

16mm film transferred to video
31:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery

Jesse Fleming
Film still of straight razor and snail
The Snail and the Razor
2012

Single channel video
07:56 min., color, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Sylvie Fleury
Walking on Carl Andre
1997

Video
24:40 min., color, sound

Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York