Aldo Tambellini Movies
- 2017

Black Matters
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Black Matters is the first full solo exhibition of American artist, Aldo Tambellini, who is one of the pioneers of intermedia art of the 1960s and...
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- 1965

Black Is
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To the sound of a heartbeat and made entirely without the use of a camera, this film projects abstract forms and illuminations on a night-black...
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- 1965

Black Trip
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Through the uses of kinescope, video, multimedia, and direct painting on film, an impression is gained of the frantic action of protoplasm under a...
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- 1963

The Screw
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Video documentation of Tambellini’s 1963 performance art piece, The Screw, a biting satire aimed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney...
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- 2012

Cathodic Works
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"Presenting, for the first time, a selection of the cathodic experimental works from the seminal Italo-American artist Aldo Tambellini; A selection...
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- 1969

The Medium Is the Medium
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Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...
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- 1967

Black '67
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Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...
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- 1969

Minus 1
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This videotape was originally made in the television studio in Rochester, NY on a 2-inch Quad broadcast tape in 1969 with a grant from the New York...
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- 1968

Moonblack
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This handmade ‘sensory experience’ by American film artist Tambellini is created without the use of a camera.
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- 1968

Black TV
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Black TV is the title of Tambellini’s best-known videographic film, which is part of a large intermedia project about American television....
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- 1969

Black
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Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIUM is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...
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- 2005

Listen
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Winner of the New England Film Festival, Best Experimental Film 2005; Winner of the Syracuse International Film Festival, Best Experimental 2006. As...
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- 1976

Clone
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Clone creates a non-narrative sensory experience where TV images repeat, cloning themselves sometimes with mutations. The sound in Clone is the live...
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- 1965

Blackout
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This film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background...
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- 2007

Listen
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After spending years working at MIT and having left the NYC art scene of the 1960s, Tambellini, like many artists, experienced a time of less...
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- 1966

Sunblack
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The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...
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- 1968

Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)
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Often cited as the first television program made by artists, "Black Gate Cologne" is a live event involving films, light objects and the...
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- 2020

Sonia and Aldo
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Documentation of Sonia Landy Sheridan and Aldo Tambellini in conversation with Bruce Posner.
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- 1969

Black Spiral
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A high-contrast spiraling white light [which] shimmers, radiates, contracts, twists in orgasmic ecstasy, dwindles to nothing, and blazes forth again...
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- 1966

Black Plus X
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Tambellini here focuses on contemporary life in a black community. The extra, the “X” of Black Plus X, is a filmic device by which a...
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