Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren
Short Films
Format VOD
Original format 16mm
Year 1976-1983
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren
Running time 52 min
Films
BERTHA'S CHILDREN (1976) 7'
MURRAY AND MAX TALK ABOUT MONEY (1979) 13'
FUTURE PERFECT (1980) 11'
CHEAP IMITATIONS PART V/VI; TERMS OF ANALYSIS (1982) 16'
GRAFITTIED CARS FROM "THE ERL KING" (WITH Z'EV) (1983) 5'
Description
The collaborations between Friedman and Weinbren constitute a body of filmic experiments and aesthetic and conceptual investigations, realized as experiments within networks of complex artistic associations. These often suggest underlying patterns in their construction, even if they don't always reveal in a direct or obvious manner their generative organizational systems. On the contrary, these works rely on a hybrid authorial mode, blending laborious organizational practices with less controlled structures, such as the integration of live improvised performances, arbitrary patterns, or organizational strategies determined by chance. In addition to their recourse to opaque artistic techniques, sometimes seemingly paradoxical, these films often employ other methodologies that further complicate their analysis, including important but partially concealed elements of ideological critique, documentary contingency, and conceptual humor.