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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Gary Hill
close up of a spiral notebook
Around & About
1980

Video
05:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited August 2015
Jenny Holzer
A dark background with "ABUSE" written in large red letters
Televised Texts
1990

Video
13:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited April 2012
Sky Hopinka
Surreal landscape view framed by a rocky overhang, with textured stone and greenery above and an open field and sky beyond.
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
2021

HD video
04:13 min., color, stereo sound
Courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibited January 2025
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
A still of "Single Wide" in which a car has crashed through a single wide trailer.
Single Wide
2002

Single-channel video installation
06:07 min. loop, color, stereo sound
Courtesy Burger Collection, Hong Kong, Zürich

Exhibited September 2022
Christian Jankowski
A still from "The Holy Artwork"
The Holy Artwork
2001

Video
16:30 min., color, sound
Courtesy of The Rachofsky Collection

Exhibited February 2026
Ulysses Jenkins
A still from Ulysses Jenkins' "Secrecy: Help Me to Understand."
Secrecy: Help Me to Understand
1994

Video
08:00 min., color, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited December 2022
Joan Jonas
Video still, black-and-white: blurry, tilted close-up of a person lying down, partially obscured by a dark horizontal band.
Vertical Roll
1972

Video
19:38 min., b&w, sound
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Exhibited August 2011
Miranda July
A short haired woman in a vest holding a black and white television
The Amateurist
1998

Video
14:00 min., color, sound
Image copyright the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Exhibited January 2014
Polina Kanis
A still from Polina Kanis' "Celebration" which shows two figures shaking hands with both figures wearing grey clothing
Celebration
2014

Video, Loop, HD
13:27 min., color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie C Neuchâtel-Paris

Exhibited January 2022