Video Inventory
PUBLIC HEARING ANTHOLOGY
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OR.3 Public Hearing Reel 1. Beginning of discussion. Jonas Mekas statement ans Reel 1 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. This reel includes intro to hearing, and Jonas Mekas (Anthology) opening statement (00:07:00), followed by questions from audience (to end). Notable figures in audience: Cage, Paik 4/2/1979 00:33:19 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.4 Public Hearing Reel 2. Three other statements, Montessori, Food conter, a Reel 2 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. This reel includes opening statement from Caring Community rep (00:00:35). Followed by opening statement from Mutual Aid Project rep (00:06:29). Followed by opening statement from Mentessori School rep (00:12:40). Followed by questions from audience for all reps (00:23:20 - end). 4/2/1979 00:33:29 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.5 Public Hearing Reel 3. Small statements most supporting Anthology Reel 3 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. Questions continue from reel 2. Followed by Larry Rivers statement (00:02:09). Followed by general statemets of support from audience for specific project (00:07:37). Ann Volkes statement (00:14:20). 4/2/1979 00:33:19 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.6 Public Hearing Reel 4. Small statements most supporting Anthology Reel 4 of 4. West Village local gov public hearing in 1979, focusing on gov plans to rezone/sell/lease 13th st Food & Maritime Building. Four groups competing: Anthology, Caring Community, Mutual Aid Project, Montessori School. General statements of support from audience continues from reel 3. Closing comment from board (00:31:40). 4/2/1979 00:33:13 Black and White Yes VIEW
NAM JUNE PAIK DOCUMENTARY
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OR.NJ Nam June Paik "Blue Sky"* (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Unkown) Unknown event in an audiorium. Video starts with the recording of a "telephone" game in audience. Paik on camera is zooming in and out and seems to be playing with camera's reaction to the auditorium lights. c. 1975 00:04:50 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.27 Casablance 3, last reel Non-artwork, possible sample planning. Recording of Casablanca and unknown silent film at (00:13:36). c. 1975 00:33:13 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.237 Nam June Paik, HAAS Lounge - University of Buffalo, November 16, 1972. "B * (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Unkown) Begins with recording of a window showing water and highway, location unknown. (00:11:20) switches to nude woman taking a shower until 00:17:00. Jumps to closeup of a hand putting objects on a table (artist unknown, possible video piece planning). (00:23:00) jumps to recording of fireescape and plants. Warning: nudity 11/16/1972 00:29:37 Black and White No VIEW
OR.152 TV TV Master Non-artwork possible sample planning. Recording of various television programs discussing film/cinema, edit seems intentional. c. 1975 00:21:22 Color Yes VIEW
OR.162 Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota, Flux Sonata Performance titled Flux Sonata. Nam June Paik puts a record on a record player and sits in an armchair next to it. (00:07:06) NJP removes the record and throws it on the floor the audience appears to be laughing. Repeats this in various ways to end. c. 1970 00:33:16 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.164 Fluxus concert I. June Paik and Shigeko Kubota Performance titled Fluxus Concert I. Begins with unpacking of a piano from it's crate. (00:08:20) George Maciunas is handing out ping pong balls and tennis raquets to the audience, Peter Moore is shooting photos. Audience is asked to throw ping-pong ballls into pianos interior, making sounds. (00:15:11) A woman is placing 2 tall glasses inside the piano and throwing marbles hitting the cords. c. 1970 00:33:21 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.173 Nam June Paik Black & white video effects reel, used in parts of "Suite 212" video chapters. 11/5/1974 00:03:46 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.183 Nam June Channel 5. April 21, Monday Recording of an episode of Midday Live on channel 5. c.1980. Includes a segment on video art and video synthesizers. (00:18:38) Nam June is interviewed. "You should dominate television." "Television is a miscommunication medium." Shows "Global Groove" video by Nam June Paik. Taking television from low art to high art. c. 1975 00:30:40 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.240 Art Car by Nam June* (Mis-labeled. Actual footage: Raw footage of car show) Raw Footage of car show at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. Possibly used in Paik artwork titled Art Car. c. 1970 00:33:06 Black and White Yes VIEW
SHIGEKO KUBOTA ARTWORKS
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OR.7 Shigeko Installation last shot Kubota Performing in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 1 of 3. c. 1980 00:06:09 Color No VIEW
OR.8 Shigeko Installation Kubota performing/dancing nude in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 3 of 3. c. 1980 00:31:39 Color No Request for Permission Required
OR.9 Shigeko Installation Kubota Performing/dancing clothed/undressing/nude/fabric in front of 'Duchamps Grave' video sculpture. Location Unknown. Reel 2 of 3. c. 1980 00:33:31 Color No Request for Permission Required
OR.10 Shigeko Installation Duchamps Grave' exhbit footage, dark lighting. Possibly filmed at Rene Block Gallery. c. 1980 00:26:13 Color No VIEW
OR.19 Kitchen Unknown artist performance holding spoon in front of multiple CRT screens. Possibly part of Video Fortune Teller by Kubota. c. 1975 00:33:13 Black and White No VIEW
OR.21 Shigeko Hospital Thur. #8, April 29 Part 8 of Shigeko Kubota Hospital series of 10. Video diary of Kubota in Hospital for surgery. c. 1980 00:34:07 Black and White Yes Request for Permission Required
OR.50 Slow Feedback Multiple segments of footage sampled for Channel 13 experimental video broadcast series Suite 212. (00:01:08) Footage of the Bronx. (00:04:15) Aerial views of Manhattan are shown from a helicopter. (00:07:26) Recording of people ice skating. (00:16:06) The camera captures a cathedral and people in a nearby park, including close-ups of architectural details. (00:20:14) Sequence shows a horse running, a woman weaving, and sheep running. c. 1970 00:23:21 Black and White No VIEW
OR.53 Paris' Strip Raw footage recorded by Kubota during tour of Europe. Footage used in Europe On 1/2 " a Day video piece. Includes live striptease footage from a Cabaret in France. c. 1970 00:29:14 Black and White Yes VIEW
OR.83 Shigeko My Father's Last, *Important Raw footage of Shigeko with Father, watching tv. Unedited, used in My Father video piece. 12/31/1972 00:24:42 Black and White Yes Request for Permission Required
OR.90 Synapse colorized face Early experimentation with colorizing and editing techniques at Synapse Studio Lab at Syracuse University. Later iterations were used in the Kubota pices titled My Face and Self Portrait. c. 1970 00:30:19 Color Request for Permission Required
OR.97 Net '74 Report Shigeko Kubota Recording of an episode of The Television Laboratory, WNET 13, 1974. Addressing video art. Notable figures: Miller, Paik, Etra, Vasulka,Tambellini, Hayes, Vanderrbeek, Emschwiller. (00:23:30) Becomes audio only. 5/27/1905 00:33:14 Color Partial VIEW
OR.135 Lesbian Mothers Documentary film by Rita Moreira and Norma Pontes titled Lesbian Mothers, 1972. Includes street interviews asking people how they feel about lesbian mothers, as well as interviews with women about the experience of being a lesbian mother. Premiered at the New York Woman's Video Festival, likely where she met Kubota. Warning: Nudity. 1972 00:30:28 Black and White Yes Request for Permission Required
OR.204 My Father Original Master, Shigeko Kubota. Black and white, 15 min. Final edit of My Father by Shigeko Kubota. Explores relationship with her father, and experience of his final days and eventual death. 1975 00:16:58 Black and White Yes Request for Permission Required
OR.235 318 Picturephone Tape II Raw footage of two-way video happening titled NY-CA Picturephone, 1979. Includes musical dual perfomance with Paik and blind saxaphonist. Notable figures: Kubota, Al Robbins, Joan Logue, Nam June Paik, Bob Walker. Other fluxus memebers. Reel 2 of 2. 1979 00:22:06 Black and White Yes
OR.262 White forest (in japanese) Raw footage recorded by Kubota in passenger seat of a moving car, passing through a forest (location unknown) and singing. 8/2/1976 00:33:32 Color Yes VIEW
OR.277 Niagara 2, Watergate Multiple segments, possibly for sampling. Begins with recording of movie titled Niagara, 1953. (00:24:08) Switches to recorded footage of Nixon Watergate hearings. c. 1973 00:51:49
OR.284 Video Poem, Kitchen Installation footage of Kubota video sculptures at The Kitchen. Includes footage of artworks titled Video Poem and Duchamps Grave. 6/6/1975 00:33:10 Black and White VIEW
OR.322 Arizona Sky with Rocks in Utah Raw fooatge recorded in Arizona and Utah, respectively. Loops back and forth between recording of the sky in Arizona, and a cliff in Utah. Samples used in various channels of Kubota video sculpture titled Three Mountains. c. 1975 01:05:15 Color No VIEW
OR.338 My face by Shigeko Kubota. Self-portrait with video poem. Color, no sound Early edit of Kubota video piece titled Self Portrait. c. 1970 01:01:58 Color No Request for Permission Required
OR.346 Fusion by Shigeko Multiple segments. Begins with abstracted/colorized sillouette of a women dancing at a Cabaret, possibly in Paris. (00:02:13) The video cuts back and forth between raw footage and colorized edits, now with both men and women dancing in a Cabaret. (00:13:48) Switches to raw footage recorded from inside a car driving toward the arc de triomphe in Paris. (00:16:34) Switches to Alan Ginsberg performance, title unknown. He speaks into a microphone and plays a handheld percussion instrument. (00:20:35) Ginsberg starts singing and playing tabletop accordian. (00:24:12). Warning: Some Nudity c. 1975 00:24:28 Black and White, some color Yes Request for Permission Required
OR.345 Video Wrestler in Japanese style. By Shigeko Kubota Video artwork by Kubota title Video Wrestlers. Includes recording of Sumo Wrestler event. (00:08:07) Includes portions of Kubota artwork My Face, as well as Kubota singing in the backround, Amore Amore. c. 1975 00:19:11 Color Yes Request for Permission Required
THREE MOUNTAINS RAW FOOTAGE
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OR.52 Grand Cayon North to South. Blue sky, Arizona Landscape. Shigeko. Color. Raw footage shot while driving at Grand Canyon National Park and unknown locations in Arizona. Used in various landscape video pieces by Kubota. 8/6/1976 00:33:24 Color Yes VIEW
OR.54 Titon Mountains. Bob is driving the car with Shigeko. Color. Raw footage shot at Grand Teton National Park. Used in various landscape video pieces by Kubota, including 'Three Mountains'. 8/1/1976 00:25:37 Color Yes VIEW
OR.56 Japanese markings, Taos Artwork content for 'Three Mountains' Tao Sunset colorized. Mountains at sunset. You can hear the wind. 8/10/1976 00:33:23 Color Yes VIEW
OR.253 Grand Canyon Raw footage landscape shots of the grand canyon. You can hear wind and Shigeko and a man's voice in the background along with tourists. There are closeups and shots from different angles. c. 1970 00:33:19 Color Yes VIEW
OR.254 Midway Geyser Basin, Yellow Hot River Raw footage of "Old Faithful" geyster at Yellowstone National Park. Aug-77 00:33:20 Color Yes VIEW
OR.261 Washington State/Highway to Chico, Montana. Raw footage from roadtrip to Montana. Shigeko's voice in the background with a male voice. c. 1970 00:33:20 Color Yes VIEW
OR.263 Zion Park 2 Raw footage, trip to Zion National Park, Utah c. 1970 00:35:51 Color Yes VIEW
OR.264 Old Faithful Raw footage taken by Shigeko of Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Used in Three Mountains channel. c. 1970 00:31:23 Color Yes VIEW
OR.265 Mammoth Hot Springs, Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Pond at Continental Div Nature shots of hot springs at Yellowstone. Raw footage. Shots of lily pads on water. c. 1970 00:33:21 Color Yes VIEW
OR.267 Red Canyon Utah Original footage from Why is Arizona so dry. Shigeko's and another man's voice in the backround. 8/5/1976 00:33:35 Color Yes VIEW
DUCHAMPIANA NUDE DESCENDING STAIRCASE
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NAVAJO SKY
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OTHER ARTISTS
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JOHN CAGE
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VIDEO EXPERIMENTS
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VIDEO IN THE WINDOW
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EVENTS
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RIVER RUN
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DUCHAMP
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