CLARK BUCKNER - SELECTED VIDEOS (FOR THE SFO MUSEUM)

This playlist features a selection of videos that I have produced, shot, and/or edited.

The first two, Spiders from Mars and Life Hacks (and Other Embodied Technologies) document exhibitions that I curated at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society and Telematic Media Arts.

Ben Grosser: Artist Talk and Cristobal Martinez: In-Conversation document on-line artist talks that I organized and hosted during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The following two videos document performances by the dance company, JPMW, with whom I work consistently. The first, Heron’s Head, is an excerpt from a short dance film; while the second, Small Dances in the Park, documents a full performance in Golden Gate Park’s Dahlia Dell.

The final five videos are personal and creative projects of my own:

Tunneling is a found footage film, highlighting the rhythmic, musical properties of the moving image.

Where Vision Gets Built explores the intersection of video, architecture, and ideology.

Teletubbyland is comprised of all the images in the first episode of the Teletubbies in which the Teletubbies don’t appear.

Top’s Folk is a portrait of my grandmother and an oral history of our family dating back to the Civil War.

Up in the Air combines the flight of an air balloon over the Arizona Desert with the abstractions of video synthesis.

And The Sound of the Street (16th and Mission) is a musical composition and documentary portrait of an urban intersection.