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The Hundred Videos: Volume 2

Steve Reinke

1996 00:54:49 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3Video
Tags:
Body, Death and Dying, Diary, Found Footage, Humor, LGBTQ, Memory

Description

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. 

"Each disquieting image breaks down into a pixel, each pithy phrase into a word, and Reinke's stream of video-thought continues apace. The corpse won't stop talking."

— Jon Davies, Images Festival: Spotlight Essay, April 2018

"Like all of us, Reinke is waiting for the rebirth of art, but he’s decided to roll camera while he waits. As I watch and wait with him, I can’t help but feel that the histories of cinema and of video art are being summarized for me — I have no need to educate myself further because it all led to this point anyway."

— Daniel Cockburn, Pleasure Dome, Catalogue Essay, December 2002

This is the second of five volumes of the project. All volumes of The Hundred Videos are available for screening rentals and educational licensing.

Volume 2

15. Walking the Dog, (1992) 02:28

16. After Baudelaire, (1992) 02:22

17. Language of Rats, (1992) 03:30

18. Language of Flowers, (1992) 01:36

19. Introduction to the Logo, (1992) 01:21

20. Deaf, (1992) 02:54

21. Squeexing Sorrow from an Ashtray, (1992) 05:45

22. In the Realm of Perpetual Embarrassment, (1992) 03:33

23. 80 Prominent Dermatologists, (1992) 05:15

24. Visuals Elf, (1992) 01:03

25. Pus Girl, (1992) 01:25

26. Wish, (1992) 02:43

27. Disturbed Sleep, (1992) 06:44

28. Testimonials, (1992) 06:47

29. Little Faggot, (1993) 02:34

30. Long Train Ride, (1993) 03:36

About Steve Reinke

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his videos. His work is screened widely and is in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery (Ottawa).  His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture appraisals with endearing wit. 

Born in a village in northern Ontario, he is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. In the 1990's he produced the ambitious omnibus The Hundred Videos (1996), and a book of his scripts, Everybody Loves Nothing: Scripts 1997-2005 was published by Coach House (Toronto). He has also co-edited several books, including By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artist Video Scripts (co-edited with Nelson Henricks, 1997),  Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video (with Tom Taylor, 2000), and The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (with Chris Gehman, 2005).

"Reinke is so skilled and at ease with the video medium that he seems to have no fear or hesitation addressing just about any topic that human beings might get tangled in, from sex and evermore bizarre rituals of attraction and betrayal through to some of the most frivolous but poignant obsessions and self-delusions that people indulge in to keep despair or boredom at bay."
--Ross Gibson, How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain, Remembrance and the Moving Image catalog (2003)