La jungla [videorecording] / Tony Labat. [1985]

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La jungla [videorecording] / Tony Labat. [1985]

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With a stylized juxtaposition of image and text, Labat constructs a spare, oblique narrative of relationships--the interpersonal relationship between a man and a woman, as well as formal relationships between space and objects, exterior and interior. Panning regularly from left to right like a surveillance camera, Labat records a couple engaged in the banal routines of daily life. Slight gestures and incidental details suggest unspoken tensions and intimacies. A written text scrolling across the screen from right to left distracts the viewer with a tangential narrative of displacement and dissociation.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (12 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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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...

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