Aporia Series: Aporia I

Aporia Series: Aporia I

16mm, color, silent, 10 min
"It hurt my eyes, there was too much TV in it." - Stan Brakhage "Television is vulgar, a vulgarity thrown in the face of, against the fact of, serious art .... [Y]et vulgarity is impossible ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"It hurt my eyes, there was too much TV in it." - Stan Brakhage "Television is vulgar, a vulgarity thrown in the face of, against the fact of, serious art .... [Y]et vulgarity is impossible without its opposite; vulgarity implies good manners, propriety, a kind of aesthetic seriousness of measure .... The fact of television and the fact of its conquering our environment cannot be used any longer by the well-mannered Modernist as a manifestation of mere vulgarity .... If the artist must continually fight to paint or give form to what he sees then Manet's fight to have the cafes as a serious subject for painting is inherited today as the fight for the acknowledgement that television is what the artist sees." – Gary Doberman, "The Uses of Vulgarity in the Aporian Context" "When you said you were working with televison, I knew you were on to something because television is forbidden territory." – Fred Worden

Films

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    Full Moon Notebook
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    Sandwoman's Moon
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    Domicile
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    The Moieties
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    Nimbus
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    The Fur of This Animal
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    Marks of Reference
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    Trivia
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    Aporia Series: Aporia VI
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    Gary Doberman

    color, silent, 21 min
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    Aporia Series: Aporia VII
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    Gary Doberman

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    Aporia Series: Aporia II
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    Aporia Series: Aporia II
    Gary Doberman

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    Aporia Series: Aporia III Estar Print
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    Aporia Series: Aporia III Estar Print
    Gary Doberman

    16mm, color, silent, 24.5 min
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    Aporia Series: Aporia IV
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    Gary Doberman

    16mm, color, silent, 11.5 min
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    Aporia Series: Aporia V
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    Aporia Series: Aporia V
    Gary Doberman

    16mm, color, silent, 10.5 min
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