Damnation of Faust : [videorecording] will-o'-the-wisp (a deceitful goal) / by Dara Birnbaum. [1985]

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Damnation of Faust : [videorecording] will-o'-the-wisp (a deceitful goal) / by Dara Birnbaum. [1985]

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The second installment of the Faust trilogy centers on the development of Marguerite, the female character in the Faust legend. Composing fragmentary memory images in 19th-century Japanese compositions in an experimental documentary style, Birnbaum traces the process of deception and abandonment through the heroine's mournful description of her state of mind.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (6 min.) : sd., col. ; 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...