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Talks

Coming Through: Filmed Street Actions

Friday, Feb 24, 2006

11 a.m.

Participants

Tanya Zimbardo, curatorial associate, media arts, SFMOMA

Steve McQueen’s video installation Drumroll looks at Manhattan through the unconventional eye of an oil drum. A formal investigation of motion, the piece also records spatial interruptions in public places. Using Drumroll as a launching point, Zimbardo looks at various approaches to filming in the street – from covert recordings to confrontational encounters with passersby – with illustrations from the history of experimental cinema and contemporary video art.