Movies: Gretchen Bender

  • 1981
    How to Fly

    How to Fly (1981)

    How to Fly

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    A completely nonlinear collage of unconnected scenes....

    How to Fly
  • 1987
    Total Recall

    Total Recall (1987)

    Total Recall

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    "Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall (1987) is the artist’s largest realized work of electronic theater, an eleven-channel performance choreographed across 24 television monitors and three projection screens ... Bender mined the mesmerizing, banal imagery...

    Total Recall
  • 1984
    Wild Dead I, II, III

    Wild Dead I, II, III (1984)

    Wild Dead I, II, III

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    Two-channel video on four CRT monitors with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann....

    Wild Dead I, II, III
  • 1983
    Reality Fever

    Reality Fever (1983)

    Reality Fever

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    An early, single-channel version of Bender's video collages, one with found, created, and manipulated imagery, including a Folgers coffee commercial, a children's superhero cartoon, and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."...

    Reality Fever
  • 1984
    Dumping Core

    Dumping Core (1984)

    Dumping Core

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    In Dumping Core, a frenzy of images appears across thirteen video monitors, creating an information overload set to a proto-techno soundtrack. The installation mimics and exaggerates the pervasive media culture prompted by then-new television network...

    Dumping Core