Combat in vain [videorecording] / Rafael França. [1983]

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Combat in vain [videorecording] / Rafael França. [1983]

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Combat in vain is Rafael França's free adaptation of Marguerite Yourcenar's novel, Alexis, ou, Le traité du vain combat (1929), in which a man writes a letter confessing his homosexuality to his wife. In França's video, the story is told in a series of dense, symbolic, primarily visual scenes.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (7 min.) ; 3/4 in. original.

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Yourcenar, Marguerite, 1903-1987

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Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize. In 1980, Yourcenar was the first female member elected to the Académie française. Yourcenar's house on Mount Desert Island (Maine), Petite Plaisance, is now a museum dedicated to her memory. ...

França, Rafael, 1957-1991

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...