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THE FIFTH NY VIDEO FESTIVAL

July  26 - August 3

The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, New York City
Box office: (212) 875-5600

The New York Video Festival returns to the Walter Reade Theater as part of
Lincoln Center Festival 96 with an astonishing range of original works by new
and established media artists: from political to personal documentaries,
poetry to performance art, mythology to music video, and works that simply
deny categorization.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

MEDEA (Lars von Trier, Denmark, 1988) TV adaptation of an unfilmed screenplay
by one of film history's greatest figures, Denmark's Carl Dreyer.

FAMILY LIFE: BITING THE HAND THAT FED US
Wry and compassionate explorations of dysfunctional family values.

OVERLODE
A travelogue for cyborgs or a self-help manual in eight chapters for those
troubled (or excited) by the prospect of their imminent disappearance inside
their own technology.

WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS: FOUR SUPERB SUBCULTURES
This tweaked ethnographic tour-de-force visits four brilliantly nutty realms
that are at once ordinary and natural and at the same time odd, fabulous,
completely invented.

ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
Six videos that examine the construction of social identity, and in which the
dissenters do their best not to behave like the polite people someone hoped
they'd grow up to be

PUBLIC DOMAIN
Ten videomakers explore the psycho-social implications of our experience of
public space and the ways in which surveillance and spectatorship affect our
relationship to it.
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STYLED LIVES
Three mockumentary riffs that expose the denial that props up the fictions of
our regulated lifestyles.

SENSE MEMORY
Reverie, eulogy, reminiscencethese contemplative works share an uncanny
ability to evoke something lost as if it were suddenly present once more.

TWISTED
A lexicon of lunacy, a miscellany of madness, ranging from low-grade
absurdity and anti-social behavior through more troubling
obsessive/compulsive practices to truly certifiable maniaall skillfully
mediated by singular, often astonishing, artistic vision.

EXTREME CLOSE-UP
Distant thunder on the Russian Right and fallout from the Italian Left as two
documentaries consider contrasting manifestations of political extremism and
its fascinatingly irrational imperatives.

ART SEEN: THREE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
The contemporary art world's 30-year engagement with the medium can be seen
as a video parallel universe based in art gallery exhibition. Works by three
young international rising stars.

I AM LEGEND
Three different takes on tales from mythology, and their contemporary
parallels.

PROOF POSITIVE
A look at how gay and HIV-positive men are treated in two contrasting
cultures: one supportive, the other suppressed.

LESSONS OF SURVIVAL: THE VIDEOS OF FRANCISCO RUIZ DE INFANTE
Writer, poet and storyteller Ruiz de Infante explores the troubled
territories of guilt, fear, and lost roots.

CROSS-CULTURE DREAMS: MARCUS NISPEL'S MUSIC VIDEOS
Nispel in conversation with Armond White, Arts Editor of The City Sun and
author of TheResistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World.

Breaking Up Is Had To Do:Five Video Installations
Five works by artists Seongho Cho, Laurence Hegarty, Nora Logorano and
Marshall Reese, Tony Oursler and Pierrick Sorin

Complete schedule available at theater or at the Film Society web site:
http://www.filmlinc.com

Tickets on sale now at box office ($8.00 public, $5 Film Society and AIVF
members). Tickets can also be reserved one week before screening by phone or
on-line:
Phone: Call 777-FILM (777-3456).Use express code #954. ($1.50 surcharge per
ticket) On-Line: Visit http://www.777Film.com