VHS / 1979
| Title | [Dara Birnbaum compilation. Five shorts] |
| Item type | VHS |
| Author(s) | Birnbaum, Dara |
| Imprint | United States La Mamelle, Inc. ; 1979 |
| Language | English |
| URL | Link to original record |
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| Physical description | 1 videocassette of 1 (28 min.) (U-matic NTSC) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. |
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245 00 [Dara Birnbaum compilation. Five shorts]|h[videorecording]
/|cdirector, Dara Birnbaum
257 United States.
260 United States :|bLa Mamelle, Inc. ;|c[1979-1980].
300 1 videocassette of 1 (28 min.) (U-matic NTSC) :|bsd., col.
;|c3/4 in.
500 La Mamelle no. 252.
505 0 Technology/transformation: Wonder woman (1978-1979) (5:50
min.) -- Kiss the girls: Make them cry (1979) (6:50 min.)
-- Pop-pop video--excerpt. General Hospital/Olympic women
(1980) (6 min.) -- Pop-pop video--excerpt. Kojak/Wang
(1980) (3 min.) -- Remy/Grand Central: Trains and boats
and planes (1980) (4:18 min.).
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access
by appt. only.|5CBPF.
520 Technolog transformation: Appropriating imagery from the
1970s TV series Wonder Woman, Birnbaum isolates and
repeats the moment of the "real" woman's symbolic
transformation into super-hero. Kiss the girls: Birnbaum
manipulates off-air imagery from the TV game show
Hollywood Squares in Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry, a bold
deconstruction of the gestures of sexual representation in
pop cultural imagery and music. Pop-pop video--excerpt.
General Hospital/Olympic women: a fragmented collage that
cuts between two sources of off-air television imagery --
the TV sports event and the soap opera -- to analyze the
syntax and gestures of what Birnbaum terms "TV treatment"
-- in this case, the cross-cut and the reverse shot. Pop-
pop video--excerpt. Kojak/Wang: Layered with a tension-
laden crescendo of rock guitars and gunshots, Kojak/Wang
is a volatile pastiche of fast-paced, repeated images from
Kojak (commercial TV), an ad for the Wang Corporation (TV
commercial), and color bars. Birnbaum equates the violence
of the crime drama shoot-out and the violence of corporate
America, as signified by the telecommunications industry.
Remy/Grand Central:Commissioned by Remy Martin for a
public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York,
Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a
deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of
appropriated footage (including a TV commercial for Sergio
Valente jeans) and a young woman drinking Remy on a
commuter train platform, Birnbaum calls attention to how
mass media advertising uses a woman's body as a vehicle
for selling products.
538 U-matic NTSC.
541 0 PFA 0750-01-10846. D0297
590 PFA 0750-01-10846. |aResearcher must fast forward and
rewind tape before first use.
655 7 Shorts.|2mim
655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim
700 1 Birnbaum, Dara,|edirection.
710 2 La Mamelle, Inc.
740 02 Technology-transformation--Wonder woman.
740 02 Kiss the girls--make them cry.
740 02 Pop-pop video--excerpt. General Hospital/Olympic women.
740 02 Pop-pop video--excerpt. Kojak/Wang.
740 02 Remy/Grand Central--trains and boats and planes.
941 0 PFA 0750-01-10846. D0297 gift 1998/05/21
946 PFA 0750-01-10846. INV record created 2009/12/08 by sw;
MIN record created 2011/04/04 by sw.
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