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  Free Society

  War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection.

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  Rita on the Ropes

  Tom Palazzolo

  Black and white film made by Tom Palazzolo, 2001. Rita, a young high school student recounts and reflects on her life in a monologue played over footage of her wandering through various beautiful and often strange Chicago locations. The filmmaker’s daughter Amy plays the young woman, with a voice-over by Deborah King.

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  The Monumental Work of Marc Chagall

  Arts & Culture, Chicago, Viewers Choice

  Chuck Olin’s documentary on the making of Marc Chagall’s America Windows created for the Art Institute of Chicago.

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  Image Union, episode 0329

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Union, Nancy Cain

  Compilation episode of Image Union featuring the work of Ellen and Lynda Kahn, Max Almy, Norman Magdon and Tom Erickson, Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman, Jane Veeder, and Bart Friedman and Nancy Cain.

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  [The 90’s raw: NEA artists’ press conference]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. At a press conference held by several artists who were denied Nation Endowment for the Arts funding because their work was deemed obscene by NEA chairman John E. Frohnmayer. The main theme of each speaker seems to be that because Frohnmayer has caved in to the conservatives in Congress, he has not served to protect and foster art, as is his mission as NEA chairman.

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  Image Union, episode 0027: Super 8’s

  Communities, Image Union, Latinx

  This compilation episode of Image Union features a mind-bending experimental video, a time lapse photography piece, a video tribute to Judy Roberts, and a short political documentary. Works include “…Living in the City” by Bill Chayes, “The Quickie” by Moving Memory Films, “Judy” by Rosalie Loewy, “Seamus” and “Octopus’ Garden” by Dean Kendrick and Chip Scoglio, and “Justice for Joe Torres” by Betsy Martins.

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  Art Com Demo

  Uncategorized

  0:00 “Americans (mer-kins)” by Chris Mullington (1988) 1:15 “When you kiss me, it feels like…” A couple kiss with tongues in a park. Looks like early black and white video. 1:36 “Clara” A woman talks about beginning to raise children after her husband passes away. She says she’d rather give to her kids than to another man from the street. 3:00 “Born to Be Wild” A couple drive down the highway on a motorcycle. 3:27 “Elvis Lives” Impressionistic piece featuring […]

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  [Ant Farm time capsule opening] – El Livahpla

  Ant Farm, Outside Agitators

  0:00 Opening of the 1972 Ant Farm Time Capsule at The Art Guys Museum in Houston, Texas in 2000. Sound is very poorly recorded and is hard to understand. This is raw footage of the event and is not a completed piece.  After general footage of people milling around the gallery, there is a speech by  the museum archivist about the events of 1972.  Curtis Schreier, nearly naked in a bizarre costume, gets onstage and does a semi-inaudible performance. 14:00 […]