Aldo Tambellini Movies

  • 2017
    Black Matters

    Black Matters

    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...

    Black Matters
  • 1965
    Black Is

    Black Is

    Black Is

    01965HD

    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...

    Black Is
  • 1965
    Black Trip

    Black Trip

    Black Trip

    01965HD

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

    Black Trip
  • 1963
    The Screw

    The Screw

    The Screw

    01963HD

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

    The Screw
  • 2012
    Cathodic Works

    Cathodic Works

    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...

    Cathodic Works
  • 1969
    The Medium Is the Medium

    The Medium Is the Medium

    The Medium Is the Medium

    01969HD

    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...

    The Medium Is the Medium
  • 1967
    Black '67

    Black '67

    Black '67

    01967HD

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

    Black '67
  • 1969
    Minus 1

    Minus 1

    Minus 1

    01969HD

    This videotape was originally made in the television studio in Rochester, NY on a 2-inch Quad broadcast tape in 1969 with a grant from the New York...

    Minus 1
  • 1968
    Moonblack

    Moonblack

    Moonblack

    01968HD

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

    Moonblack
  • 1968
    Black TV

    Black TV

    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....

    Black TV
  • 1969
    Black

    Black

    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...

    Black
  • 2005
    Listen

    Listen

    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...

    Listen
  • 1976
    Clone

    Clone

    Clone

    01976HD

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

    Clone
  • 1965
    Blackout

    Blackout

    Blackout

    01965HD

    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...

    Blackout
  • 2007
    Listen

    Listen

    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...

    Listen
  • 1966
    Sunblack

    Sunblack

    Sunblack

    01966HD

    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...

    Sunblack
  • 1968
    Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)

    Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)

    Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)

    01968HD

    Often cited as the first television program made by artists, "Black Gate Cologne" is a live event involving films, light objects and the...

    Black Gate Cologne (A Light Play)
  • 2020
    Sonia and Aldo

    Sonia and Aldo

    Sonia and Aldo

    02020HD

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

    Sonia and Aldo
  • 1969
    Black Spiral

    Black Spiral

    Black Spiral

    01969HD

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

    Black Spiral
  • 1966
    Black Plus X

    Black Plus X

    Black Plus X

    01966HD

    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...

    Black Plus X