Movies
- 1990
Made in Hollywood
Made in Hollywood71990HD
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...
- 1986
Kappa
Kappa01986HD
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...
- 1996
Japan in Paris in L.A.
Japan in Paris in L.A.01996HD
Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic...
- 1984
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.51984HD
Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.
- 1984
Vault
Vault01984HD
In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl....
- 2007
Sounds Like the Sound of Music
Sounds Like the Sound of Music02007HD
Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of...
- 1988
Blinky
Blinky01988HD
In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in the...
- 2017
Barravento Novo
Barravento Novo02017HD
Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s...
- 1976
Garage Sale
Garage Sale11976HD
GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...
- 1970
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen01970HD
The documentary explores the enigma of actress and artist Mary Woronov and chronicles her colorful career trajectory as a ground breaking female...
- 1982
Green Card: An American Romance
Green Card: An American Romance01982HD
Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable...
- 1980
Garage Sale II
Garage Sale II01980HD
Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...
- 2022
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan02022HD
Focusing predominantly on Mexico City, this new work is an exploration of immigration and the ways in which different cultures intertwine or remain...
- 1979
Based on Romance
Based on Romance01979HD
This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to...
- 1992
ahistory
ahistory01992HD
Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the...
- 2016
Far East of Eden
Far East of Eden02016HD
This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on...
- 2010
Before I Close My Eyes
Before I Close My Eyes02010HD
This video focuses on three contemporary Vietnamese men, dressed in Vietnam War-era uniforms, as they watch a recording of the historic televised...
- 1989
Framed
Framed01989HD
Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S....
- 1991
A History of Clouds
A History of Clouds01991HD
The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless...
- 2002
Panpanorama
Panpanorama02002HD
PANPANORAMA features the famous “kiss” in Alfred Hitchcockʼs VERTIGO. The locations which panoramically circle around the lovers in...