Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance

Donigan Cumming

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Aging, Body, Crime or Violence, Death and Dying, Health, Mental Landscape, Performance, Photography, Portrait, Self-Reflexive Video

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Donigan Cumming

A Prayer for Nettie

1995 | 00:33:00

A Prayer For Nettie dramatizes the death of an elderly woman who was Cumming’s photographic model from 1982 to 1993, presenting an improvised series of prayers and memorials for Nettie Harris by…

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Tags: Death and Dying, Diary, Health, Memory

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Cut the Parrot

1996 | 00:40:05

The police phoned. They left a message on the machine. They said he was dead. The video unwinds through stories of sex for rent, unclaimed bodies, cigarette burns, and other monuments of life’s long…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Body, Death and Dying, Diary, Health, Memory, Mental Landscape, Performance

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After Brenda

1997 | 00:41:05

Donigan Cumming’s improvisational style traverses the boundaries of tragedy and comedy, drama and documentation. In After Brenda, Cumming redefines the genre of popular romance. His abject hero is…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Diary, Health, Psychoanalysis

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Karaoke

1998 | 00:03:00

An ailing, elderly man listens to a private performance in his room. The singing is a halting mix cross-cultural-Inuktitut and Country & Western. Transgressive and mesmerizing, Karaoke distorts…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Aging, Diary, Health, Music

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Shelter

1999 | 00:03:22

A conversation about marriage and horses between two unseen men.This title is also available on Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and Donigan Cumming: Four Short Pieces.

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Family, Health, Mental Landscape

Donigan Cumming

Erratic Angel

1998 | 00:50:00

"I'm not finished. I don't know how long it's going to take. As far as I'm concerned I'm officially dead."In his 50th year, Colin looks back on a life of drug and alcohol abuse. Four years into…

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Tags: Diary, Health

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Pétit Jesus

1999 | 00:03:02

Christmas Eve. A man alone finds someone he can talk to."Pétit Jesus, a man speaks in his native French about his loneliness, his desperate need for love. The content of his speech is a poem of his…

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Tags: Aging, Health, Mental Landscape

Trip is inspired by the main oeuvre of architect Raine Karp--the concert hall designed for the city of Tallinn between 1975-1980. Considered the most important building realized in Estonia, Linnahall…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Architecture, Eastern European, Expedition/Travel, Film or Videomaking

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Four Storeys

1999 | 00:02:04

The confession of a woman who took flight... A woman tells a tragic story straight to camera. The camera seems to be looking for the spot where the pain is, but the woman is too quick for the viewer…

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Docu-Duster

2001 | 00:03:30

To be a man, to be a hero, to be a wife: these conflicting voices inhabit the body of a documentary filmmaker as he re-enacts the climax of a Western morality play, 3:10 to Yuma.This title is also…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Performance

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Wrap

2001 | 00:03:00

System failure: A man repeats the story of a prison stabbing as something goes wrong with the tape.This title is also available on Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and Donigan Cumming…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Crime or Violence, Film or Videomaking, Health, Mental Landscape

Donigan Cumming

if only I

2000 | 00:35:00

"What if... Colleen's life, in her own words, has been "wretched." She was sexually abused by her father, betrayed by her husband, separated from her children, driven by her love for a heroin addict…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Documentary, Family, Gender

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Culture

2002 | 00:17:04

In his signature photographic style, Donigan Cumming eulogizes a dying friend through his exploration of “culture” in all its manifestations: 1. culture: a particular civilization at a particular…

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Tags: Aging, Death and Dying, Health

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Cold Harbor

2003 | 00:03:00

With Cold Harbor, Donigan Cumming uses a minimum of elements to create a powerful anti-war message. Initially, the video seems enigmatic, almost abstract. An amateur Handycam moves tentatively…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: History, Performance

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My Dinner with Weegee

2001 | 00:36:26

In My Dinner With Weegee Donigan Cumming weaves together two life stories. The central figure, a man in his seventies named Marty, remembers his experiences in New York as a young Catholic labour…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Activism, Aging, Art History, Autobiography, Documentary, Health

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Voice: off

2003 | 00:39:00

Voice: off is the autobiography of a forgotten man. Brain damaged, body violated, emotions crushed, Gerry who rarely spoke has now lost the power of speech. The video camera is his prosthesis and he…

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Tags: Aging, Autobiography, Body, Death and Dying, Health, Memory, Photography

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Locke's Way

2003 | 00:21:00

Locke’s Way is the photographic path to knowledge, full of twists and turns, treacherously steep. What has happened down here? A family’s photographs tell us everything and nothing about the…

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Tags: Aging, Family, Health, History, Media Analysis, Photography, Youth/Childhood, Memory

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Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance

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Donigan Cumming, Călin Dan