Swans and Eunuchs

A panorama of new video projects touching on everything from America's shopping mall-blighted landscapes to turn-of-century Vienna.

Shashwati Talukdar's Eunuch Alley mixes Bollywood with film noir to tell of an Indian journalist caught spying on a castration ritual.
(2002, 21 mins.)

In Disquiet, K8 Hardy details the mundane aspects of a young woman living in a strip mall--dominated landscape of empty parking lots. (2002, 12 mins.)

Jordan Crandall's Trigger, originally a two-channel gallery installation, combines images of eyes, cameras, weapons, and muscular militiamen in an eroticized combat face-off.
(2002, 17 mins.)

In After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid, Wexner Prize winner Yvonne Rainer interweaves footage from a recent dance commission from Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project with texts and images from turn-of-the-century Vienna.
(2002, 31 mins.)