Size Matters tries to size up (quite literally) some of the extra-large epics from the past thirty years of experimental video, works notable for their sweep, ambition, and driving vision. With the demands of formal and topical innovation, experimental video has tended toward brevity, condensation winning out over breadth. So what do we make of that rare bird, the feature-length work? What happens when passion, commitment, and technical derring-do fill to fullness? From the transcendental landscapes of Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, to the bohemian bravado of Gianni Toti's Planetopolis; from the sci-fi constructs of David Blair's Wax to the architectural anarchy of Oliver Hockenhull's Building Heaven, Remembering Earth, you'll see that sometimes bigger is better.- Steve SeidVideo Curator Wednesday January 12, 2000
