Holly Willis

(Click to enlarge) Interior Scroll The penis — hard, soft, shiny, wet, thrusting, resting — has never been filmed the way it is in Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses, which depicts a sexual encounter between Schneemann and her partner in loving detail. Schneemann, a painter, filmmaker and performance artist, baked, scratched and......

Ulrike Ottinger (Click to enlarge) In the lush, feature-length Prater (2007), German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger captures the garish artwork, creaking rides and uncanny mechanical creatures that populate Vienna's famous Prater amusement park. The film begins in close-up, on the striking visages of a dummy, a monster and a clown, before......

Experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek's early computer-generated films pop from the screen, beating out patterns of dots and lines, color blocks and strobing lights, with a jumpy handmade urgency that remains fresh more than 30 years later. In Symmetricks, which VanDerBeek made at MIT in 1972 while experimenting with an electronic......

Building, a 12-minute graphics-based video by Belgian artist Anouk de Clercq, studies the play of bright white light moving across dark shapes within an architectural space. Like a stark, animated Cubist painting, the piece renders space while at the same time dematerializing it, creating rooms that shift into planes, which......