The Craven Sluck (1967)

Sedmikrásky (1966)

Pull My Daisy(1959)

Vampyr (1932)

Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1929)

L’Etoile de Mer (1928)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)

Le Ballet Mécanique (1924)

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Armand Ruhlman and Dariya Yalova will host an informal screening of experimental, avant-garde, music, and poetic videos.
Please RSVP if you’re planning to attend and/or screen a video.
Videos should be on DVDs only and less than 20 min.
Bring video, poem, and a friend! Refreshments will be served.

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Something Weird is a 1967 American exploitation film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It stars, among others, Tony McCabe and Elizabeth Lee and features a paranormalplot involving LSD drug use, a psychic, a hideous witch who morphs  into a sexy young woman, a séance, a kung-fu chopping socialite, ghosts and psychopaths, and federal agents – which together result in a very bizarre late ’60s, early 70s horror film.

and also

Something Weird Video is an American publisher of video tapes and DVDs, based in Seattle, Washington. They specialize inexploitation film, particularly the works of Harry Novak, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. SWV videos are available on demand to Comcast subscribers.^[1] There are also several titles available on Netflix. Among the series of titles within their library are “Kid’s Commercials From The Golden Age Of Television”, “Hey Folks It’s Intermission Time”, and “Campy Classroom Classics”.

The owner of the business, Mike Vraney, was inspired by his teenage job as a theater projectionist. His love for the obscure films that never made it to video prompted him to transfer hundreds of ancient reels of film to VHS and DVD.

From Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troma_Entertainment

Troma films are B-movies known for their surrealistic or automatistic nature, along with their use of shocking imagery; some would categorize them as “shock exploitation films“. They typically contain overt sexuality, graphic violence, gore and nudity, so much that the term “Troma film” has become synonymous with these characteristics. Troma’s slogan is Movies of the Future. Troma reuses the same props, actors, and scenes repeatedly, sometimes to save money. At a certain point, however, this became another hallmark of Troma. Examples include a severed leg, a penis monster, and the flipping and exploding car filmed for the movie Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD, which is used in place of any other car that needs to crash and explode.

Troma produced or acquired early films featuring several rising talents, such as Carmen Electra (The Chosen One), Billy Bob Thornton(Chopper Chicks in Zombietown), Vanna White (Graduation Day), Kevin Costner (Sizzle Beach, U.S.A.), Samuel L. Jackson (Def by Temptation), Marisa Tomei (The Toxic Avenger), Vincent D’Onofrio (The First Turn-On!), David Boreanaz (Macabre Pair of Shorts), Paul Sorvino (Cry Uncle!), James Gunn (Tromeo and Juliet), Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Cannibal! The Musical), before they were discovered. Another Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone, made his debut as an actor in The Battle of Love’s Return.

Their latest production, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, was released in late 2006.^[2]

Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)

Tom Tom the Piper’s Son

Celestial Subway Lines

Space/Time and Worries

George Kuchar’s page on eai.org

George Kuchar’s page on vdb.org

The Films Of George Kuchar

Electronic Arts Intermix

Video Art definition from Wiki

“Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television production or experimental film). Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in galleries or other venues, or distributed as video tapes or DVD discs; sculptural installations, which may incorporate one or more television sets or video monitors, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images and sound; and performances in which video representations are included.[1]“

Video Art

“Term used to describe art that uses both the apparatus and processes of television and video. It can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast, viewed in galleries or other venues, or distributed as tapes or discs; sculptural installations, which may incorporate one or more television receivers or monitors, displaying ‘live’ or recorded images…”

Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Stan Vanderbeek
Scott Bartlett, Steina and Woody Vasulka
Bruce Nauman, William Wegman, Terry Fox
Joan Jonas, Gerry Schum, David Hall
Dan Graham, Bill Viola, Kit Fitzgerald
John Sanborn, Dara Birnbaum
‘Scratch Video’by George Barber, Duvet brothers
Gary Hill, Marie-jo Lafontaine
Vito Acconci
John Baldessari, Peter Campus, Doris Totten Chase, Norman Cowie, Martha Rosler, William Wegman

Bill Viola, Matthew Barney, Gary Hill
Arambilet, Fred Forest, Tony Oursler, Mary Lucier, Paul Pfeiffer, Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Eve Sussman and Miranda July; Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Kirill Preobrazhenskiy (Russia), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland); Surekha (India);Stefano Pasquini (Italy); Shaun Wilson (Australia); Stan Douglas (Canada); Douglas Gordon (Scotland); Olga Kisseleva (Russia); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (Belgium); Martin Arnold (Austria); Matthias Müller (Germany), Heiko Daxl (Germany); Gillian Wearing (UK); Stefano Cagol (Italy); Helene Black (Cyprus); Shirin Neshat (Iran/USA); Aernout Mik (Netherlands), Jordi Colomer (Spain/France), Sergei Shutov (Russia), and Walid Raad (Lebanon/USA); Russell J Chartier(USA).

Sources
From Grove Art Online
Video art @ Wiki
MoMA
Bad Lit
Undeground Video
Avante-guard
Art House

Illuminant by Efterklang from Tobias Stretch on Vimeo.

Gig by Brian Goss from Tobias Stretch on Vimeo.

Song Without A Hero by The Orange Strips from Tobias Stretch on Vimeo.

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With Lee Groban

Japanese girls wallowing around

and The Grudge Dance

Penoplast-89-Galuppi / ПЕНОПЛАСТ-89-ГАЛУППИ video by S. Haensgen, location: Yauza River

And for dessert – Aphex Twin