Microcinema DVDs - Secret Agents, Private I: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson's groundbreaking installation, performance, photography, video, digital, and film works have earned her an international reputation as a prodigious and innovative artist. This collection is the first major survey of work, bringing nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. Hershman Leeson's work explores vision, spectatorship, and the construction of sexed subjectivity, touching on key feminist concerns relating to the lived experience of the physical body and the body as a medium on which social law and values are inscribed. Her projects of self-analysis and self-mythification explode stable notions of identity.

To provide the viewer with some guidance, the reincarnation of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s character, Roberta Breitmore, takes form to reveal private information and obscure facts about the art. In each section there are slideshows of selected images with commentary by RoBOTa, and often additional video clips.

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EARLY pre-digital multimedia WORK, including drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures.
PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATIONS, featuring The Dante Hotel, Roberta Breitmore, The Floating Museum, 25 Windows: A Portrait of Bonwit Teller, New Acquisitions and ten others, with narrated slideshows and select video clips.
PHOTOGRAPHY is not only used for the documentation of her other works, but as its own creative endeavor. Included are seven series from as early at 1966 to three that are still in the making.
VIDEO is an integral form of Hershmann Leeson’s expression. She has fifty-three videos of various lengths that investigate the media as an alternative space. On the DVD she has highlighted three works with image stills, a video clip, and two full-length videos.
INTERACTIV[e] multimedia installations including Lorna, Deep Contact, and America’s Finest, are presented with narrated slideshows and select video documentation.
NET WORKS combine digital fascination, interactive desires, and global outreach. Narrated slideshows and select video documentation familiarize the viewer with six works, including The Dollie Clones and Agent Ruby.
feature-length FILMs, Conceiving Ada and Teknolust, are technologically innovative fusions of science fiction and feminist theory. THE “L” FILES provide a computer accessible collection of documents pertaining to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s art including critical essays by art historians/curators Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Margaret Morse, Pierre Restany, Arturo Schwarz, and Siegfried Zielinski.

Catalog Number: MC-578	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Art / Artist, Video Art / Film Art
Copyright: 2006	Length: 02:00:00	Format: DVD Region: All regions
TV System:	ISBN:	UPC: 880198057891
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