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.

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Jefferson Pinder
A still from Jefferson Pinder's "Afro-Cosmonaut / Alien (White Noise)"
Afro-Cosmonaut / Alien (White Noise)
2008

Stop motion animation video
05:47 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist

Exhibited February 2025
Cheryl Pope
Video still: person in profile beside a row of large, teardrop-shaped water-filled vessels hanging from chains against a white background.
Up Against
2010

Single-channel HD video
10:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist, Mark Moore Gallery

Exhibited September 2013
Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
A still from "Cuentos Inconclusos (Unfinished Tales)," 2022
Cuentos Inconclusos – Unfinished Tales
2022

Digital video with sound
10:57 min., color, sound
Courtesy of artists and Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston

Exhibited September 2025
Nicolas Provost
Two mirrored faces of the same woman
Papillon d’amour
2003

Video
04:00 min., b&w, sound
Image copyright the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited April 2014
Yvonne Rainer
Video still: two people lift and support a third person horizontally in an indoor space with wood-paneled walls.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
2002

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

Exhibited January 2011
New Red Order
A still from "Never Settle: Calling In"
Never Settle: Calling In
2020

HD Video
03:57 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibited December 2025
Miguel Angel Ríos
A man swinging a raw steak on a rope while a dog bites his sleeve
Crudo
2008

Video
03:14 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX

Exhibited October 2016
Pipilotti Rist
Video still: collage of overlapping photographs and paper scraps in blue tones, including a portrait of a woman rotated upside down.
I'm a Victim of this Song
1995

Video
5:06 min., color, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited September 2011
Matthew Ritchie
A still from Matthew Ritchie's "Caudex"
Caudex
2022

Looped digital animation with choral soundtrack by Shara Nova
10:54 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York

Exhibited January 2024