All videos by CLAIRE BURCH
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Lethal
Weapons The Visual Art of Barton Benes Color / Sound / 20 minutes ISBN 0-916147-76-2 / $24.95 An illustrated interview with an artist who had just had a museum retrospective, who uses his own H.I.V. positive blood as “art supplies.” Barton Benes is known for his visual puns and politically rebellious treatment of money. After he tore up a three thousand dollar grant from the NY Council on the Arts, the US Treasury sent him a million dollars in shredded money which he used to create assemblages and collages. He states, “I can tear up a ten dollar bill, use it in my art pieces, and a bank will buy it for a thousand, perceiving the humor in the creation.” |
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The
Visual Art of Mark Weiman Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 1-889059-38-2 / $24.95 A video retrospective of 25 years of paintings and drawings by Mark Weiman, currently working in Berkeley, California, but who started his career at Westbeth in New York City. |
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The
Mysterious World of R. Patrick Sullivan Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 1-889059-39-0 / $24.95 Paintings and sculptures by this Westbeth artist, remembered fondly by Norman Mailer after Patrick (his family calls him Robert) had acted in one of Mailer’s plays. Sullivan’s vision, influenced by Joseph Cornell, was often beauty on the Cross, a painful legacy of his Catholic childhood. |
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Can’t Give You Anything But Love (drawings by claire burch) & Solid Gold Illusion (paintings and mixed media by claire burch) Color/ Sound 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-34-7 / $24.95 “I liked the funky poem / drawing/ collage works of Claire Burch. Burch is something else. The main interest in Burch’s show is a series of drawings incorporating fragments of family snapshots and matched to the pages of a manuscript of poems. Gallant and garrulous, the poems confront the trauma of the artist’s loss with lines as likable as these”... my mother rages/get out and look for a new father for your children/my children don’t want a new father they want pizza.” The graceful economical drawings meanwhile depict men and women sitting or lying around in a state of sensuous alertness. The intimacy is unforced and infectious….” Peter Schjeldahl, The New York Times |
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Celebrate
for the Rain Featuring the Music of Elizabeth Burch Color / Sound / 40 minutes ISBN 0-916147-88-6 / $24.95 A young girl plays and sings her original songs at age fourteen. These haunting melodies help her to come to terms with her father’s death when she was six, and the assorted mysteries of growing up at Westbeth in a non-mainstream New York City subculture. Both guitar and voice lead the listener to major emotions. |
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Guilty
Until Proven Not Guilty— The Nightmare Ordeal of Steve Weissner Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-81-9 / $24.95 This video tells the incredible story of a hippie dropout from Brooklyn, New York who, after years in the Far East and Southeast Asia, lands in the oldest prison in France, serving five years for a drug related “murder without intent.” On appeal years later he is finally found not guilty, but through a fluke of French “justice” under Napoleonic laws, his eight to ten year sentence still stands. During this period the Gulf War occurs and he is the only Jewish American surrounded by Arabs, in Nimes, a four-hundred-year-old prison. We learn of his ill-fated relationship with Victoria Lockwood, a young model later to become sister-in-law to Princess Diana of England. Cured of his addiction the hard way, he returns to America as a street survivor, homeless and destitute but determined to start over. |
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Hello
Goodbye Bob Sparks Color / Sound / 90 minutes / ISBN 0-916147-93-2 A piece in four parts, archiving a march to People’s Park in memory of longtime park and housing activist Bob Sparks. Much music by local musicians. |
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Helping
Children at Risk Occupational Therapy with Crack and Alcohol Addicted Children Color / Sound / 30 minutes ISBN 0-916147-85-1 / $24.95 Rhoda Cohen, an occupational therapist with forty years of hospital experience, takes on a class of crack-addicted young children including those born with fetal alcohol syndrome, working with them individually each week. This piece follows her methods through one intense session. Helpful to families and teachers alike, the piece clearly demonstrates the therapist’s innovative methods and how they help solve some of the learning difficulties faced by these children. |
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