Murder with mother [videorecording] / Nina Sobel. [1982]

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Murder with mother [videorecording] / Nina Sobel. [1982]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/416298448

This piece begins with a shot of a Sobell in pajamas, running in the snow with blood on her chest. It then cuts to a bedroom where she is asleep on a mattress on the floor. Mother, wearing a mask and robe, comes into the room and puts a pillow over the sleeping woman's face. They struggle, then mother pulls out a gun and shoots the woman several times. The video concludes as it began, but in slow motion: Sobell running in the snow, in her pajamas, with blood on her chest.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) : sd., col.; 3/4 in. original.

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Sobell, Nina, 1947-

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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...