Landmarks Video Archive

Landmarks Video presents the most highly regarded and influential works of video art from the past six decades. This page is an archive of every work presented as part of the Landmarks Video program and includes curatorial essays, images, and other contextual information. 

Please note that some videos may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Marina Abramović and Charles Atlas
A woman with a hat covered in snakes.
SSS
1989

Video
06:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Vito Acconci
Theme Song
1973

Video
33:15 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Terry Adkins
A picture frame around a man holding a writing utensil
Synapse
2004

Video
18:01 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Estate of Terry Adkins and Salon 94, New York

AES+F
A harem scene in the clouds with a flying pug octopus and snake goat pig
Inverso Mundus
2015

HD Video 
38:20 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artists, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, and Mobius Gallery

Allora & Calzadilla
A still from "The Great Silence" which shows a parrot looking at the camera with a subtitle underneath.
The Great Silence
2014

Single channel HD video installation
16:22 min., color, sound
© Allora & Calzadilla; Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Max Almy
A pixelated face
Leaving the 20th Century
1982

Video
11:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Laurie Anderson
A woman on a stool looking at a person with a mustache
What You Mean We?
1986

Video
20 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Eleanor Antin
The Little Match Girl Ballet
1975

Video
26:30 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

John Baldessari
A person writing on a piece of paper.
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
1971

Video
32:21 min., b&w, mono
Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org