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Compilation of eight untitled video works by Sonia Andrade. Supplied titles are from the artist's description

Combining highly processed television images, off-air footage, and the authoritative tones of a television announcer, Marton deconstructs and challenges what he describes as "the fabricated aspect of television reality and its deadly hypnosis" (artist's statement)

This piece combines documentary and dramatized film and video footage, both original and appropriated, with an animation technique developed specifically for this tape. With a disorienting structure that shifts from conventional narrative to non-narrative collage, True cross fire examines forms of visual information in mainstream media and in memory

This piece dramatizes gender roles, power relations between the sexes, and social pressures on both sexes to "perform." Keppel plays all of the female roles, while the male characters of boyfriend and father are disconcertingly combined into a single role. Excerpts from home movies reinforce the notion that adult behaviors are learned in childhood. As Keppel writes, "We act out the roles we are taught. Unknowingly we create our own fictions: we become caricatures of ourselves" (artist's statement)

In this piece, Kornfeld uses puppets to tell the story of German astronomer Johannes Kepler and his mother, Katharina Keplerin, a healer and herbalist who was tried for witchcraft

As the title suggests, this video is a meditation on the shape of the universe

In her series of four video dance pieces, Shirley Clarke uses visual abstraction as choreographic material. By means of compositional flow, editing rhythms, and manipulation and distortion of the image, she explores the choreographic potential of the video medium

Angel's Gate focuses on mortality, decay and disentegration displayed in a series of images that are delineated by long, slow fades to black

This compilation of works-in-progress by Jem Cohen includes five film and video pieces in various stages of completion. Black hole radio is an incomplete video installation based on "confession lines" that allow people to confess anonymously over the telephone while others pay a fee to listen. The soundtrack was made from recordings of anonymous callers confessing adultery, theft, and other regrets over a two year period

Jonas performs a series of simple actions in this didactic exercise on spatial distance and rhythm. The piece combines footage from two cameras zooming in and out of the performance at different speeds, while Philip Glass taps off-beat on a microphone, creating a disjunction between time and space, audio and video