EXPLORE ALL ASX.TV

ASX.TV: Christian Marclay – “Telephones” (1995)

Christian Marclay’s “Telephones” (1995), a 7 1/2-minute compilation of brief Hollywood film clips that creates a narrative of its own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable well-known actors such as Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Ray Milland, Humphrey Bogart and Meg Ryan, who dial, pick up the receiver, converse, react, say good-bye and hang up. […]

John Szarkowski – “A Life in Photography”

  From 1962 to 1991, John Szarkowski served as the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This documentary examines Szarkowski’s rich life as guided by the lens — both curator and photographer. Ultimately he was a man who helped to establish photography as a true and […]

Todd Hido – “Wish You Were Here” (2011)

Todd Hido’s “Wish You Were Here” Lecture, George Eastman House Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist. In his latest book, A Road Divided, Hido again focuses his attention on the American landscape. Driving lonely roads on the outskirts of cities, he creates poignant images filled with inexplicable gravity. He often frames the […]

ASX.TV: William Christenberry – “inContext.TV” (2010)

Photographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry works with personal and sometimes mythical themes grown out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama. Produced by: Sam Douglas and Jack Sanders Photographed by: Dutch Rall Edited by: Sam Douglas for iNCONTEXT.TV a production of KLRU Austin PBS Executive in charge of Prod: Phil Smith El Capitan: […]

Boris Mikhailov – A Way Out (2017)

Boris Mikhailov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine and came to prominence in the 1990s. His work often focuses on the politics of everyday life during the Soviet era and its aftermath. In Red 1968-75, Mikhailov depticts life in and around Kharkov, using the colour red as a symbolic reminder of the inescapable presence of the […]