Tony Cokes Movies

A personal film about a city that may only exist in a film or on TV; a film about various dreams about Calcutta. It starts with a variation on the...

Writes Cokes, "Evil.12 is a 12-minute video animation with sound. The text is excerpted from Brian Massumi's essay 'Fear (The Spectrum Said),' which...

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

"Evil.11 (The Katrina Debacle) is a text animated essay about the Bush Administration's response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. The text is...

Evil.35: Carlin/Owners (2012), uses text from comedian George Carlin set to music by the post-punk band Gang of Four.

Video work on the Civil Rights Movement borrowing its core text from “Notes from Selma: On Non-Visibility” by the Alabama collective Our...

The third part of Cokes's Shrink! trilogy in which he "shrinks" criticism.

The second part in Cokes's Shrink! trilogy in which he "shrinks" criticism.

Taking its name from The Notwist’s 1998 album (and no doubt also riffing on the informal term for a psychoanalyst), the ‘Shrink’...

No Sell Out employs desktop video to position images of Malcolm X in tension with commercial culture. It is a result of a series of loaded questions...

Writes Cokes: "In 1984 I conceived of the idea of producing a documentary that framed its own devices. I was interested in how a woman, specifically...

Starting with a consideration of the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988, in New York’s East Village, Cokes’ video expands to a broader...

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

"Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." -...