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composed videos
Poetry videos in this collection compose visuals, speech, and sound into a single aesthetic expression. They use the cinematic medium in a fuller, more unified manner than documentation videos.
| Cleary, Dan | Screw Your VCR |
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| description: | A humble epic by Irish-American poet/painter Dan Cleary, as told from his studio. (1991, Chicago) |
| Lansana, Quraysh Ali | Passage |
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| description: | Directed by Kurt Heintz, this video relates the rites of passage from one generation to the next among men of color. (1995, Chicago) |
| link: | Book of Voices |
| McComas, Paul | H.O.D. |
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| description: | Paul McComas' performance art piece extrapolated to a poetry video, zeroes into an epiphany by a young, sexually compulsive man. (1992, Chicago) |
| Neal, Bruce | Dogs |
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| description: | Bruce Neal's one-take wonder in SoHo, NYC; on canines' nastier habits, in the mode of a 1990s Baudelaire. (1991, Chicago) |
| Salach, Cin | Vogue with the War Dead |
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| description: | The Loofah Method (poet Cin Salach et al) lampoon the consumerism and arch-conservatism of the 1980s. (1992, Chicago) |
| link: | Book of Voices |
| Smith, Patricia | Chinese Cucumbers |
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| description: | Patricia Smith's debut video plunges into the mythically-driven panic for a cure, any cure, for HIV before protease inhibitors. (1994, Chicago) |
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