Conceptual, performance-based and seminal videotapes from the 1970s with an emphasis on language, contrasted by recent work by Zhuang Huan, who does radical, often painful actions in silence.

Recent experimental films from The Netherlands and Austria.

A rare screening of films by experimental composer Kagel + “Peggy and Fred in Hell is one of the strangest cinematic artifacts of the last 20 years, revealing the abuses of history and innocence in the face of catastrophe…”

Alexander Calder, The Wooster Group, Peter Greenaway

Chantal Akerman’s first film from age 18 and Sadie Benning’s newest video.

(full-figured films). Elliptical narratives, repetition, and other round things.

Videos by Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Ericka Beckman, and collaborations among them.

Performance-based videos by Chris Burden from the early 1970s and by contemporary female artists from two decades later.

Films by Su Friedrich, Jennifer Fieber, Matthias Müller.

Borderstasis articulates the fluid boundaries between public and private, mythical and real, as they exist in the life of a ‘migrant performance artist’ living in a fully globalized world.

Films by Jonas Mekas + Andy Warhol.

One of the first programs put together for the Pratt Film Series.