PUBLIC HEARING IN PROGRESS A REPLAY BY JAMES N. KIENITZ WILKINS Public Hearing in Progress is the exclusive web broadcast of original videotapes documenting the entire on-set production of Public Hearing, a feature film reenactment
One Half Hour of Wiggling is a reality entertainment program. Three characters wiggle their bodies at various locations. An omniscient voice narrates the ensuing conflict between the three wigglers. Like a half hour long reality television show streaming
The work Dress Pattern questions existing systems within the gender binary. Is it possible to fail at gender? Who owns gender? As a transgender artist I often ask myself these questions and am always
Mirror Tapping ((Empathy Labourers)) ASMR videos (Autonomous sensory meridian response) seek to elicit feelings of physical ‘tingly’ sensations usually in the head, scalp or neck region of the body. They have become a recent online
A Rousing View of Nature’s Magnificence A video performance made at Grand Canyon National Park. It is a study in superlative visual and textual representations of natural wonders. With this piece I consider the
EC, Contact: Conceptualized as a model for an eye contact training video, EC draws off the strange and unknowable logic of established social conventions and the manifest difficulties (maybe even impossibilities) of teaching
Lesson in Harmony is broadcast video work that is just that: a lesson in vocal harmonization as well as a lesson in a more transcendent sort of harmony. An onscreen subject receives instruction in
Love and Capitalism examines the connection between ideology and class by interviewing subjects on the streets of Chicago neighborhoods that vary in economic status. The film explores a structural critique of modern society through
Airing daily Feb 1 – Mar 31, as part of Direct Object/Direct Action Shorts 1: Moderato 1 minute 38 seconds, 2014 A video about video, time, movement, sound, metronome, still photography, Man Ray. Airing daily Feb 1
Tender Comrades plays on the conventions of documentary filmmaking to tell a fictional story of a radical intellectual celebrity named Sophie Vix Maurer and her biggest fan: a fictionalized version of the artist herself.