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Artists' Music Videos

This program, hosted by Susan Stamberg, showcases various alternative rock music videos, beginning with "The Dancing Man," in which a recurring song torments a man (Bill Irwin); the song plays on the radio, on a delivery boy's boom box, and in a music box. The video "The Women's Group" by the British New Wave group "The Flying Lizards" offers a satirical view of a "woman's world" and the "traps" that she faces in a relationship and marriage. "Lake Placid 80" by artist Nam June Paik uses fast-paced images of Olympic ice skaters as they whirl to the beat of a rock song. In "Record Players" by Christian Marclay, unidentified hands "play" acetate LPs by scratching them, waving them, and finally breaking them into several pieces. "Once in a Lifetime," a music video by "Talking Heads" band leader David Byrne, is followed by Joan Logue's "TV Commercials for Artists" in which she presents unconventional video portraits of Steve Reich (clapping hands), Nam June Paik (playing a piano in an unorthodox way), John Cage, and Laurie Anderson (using her head and teeth as percussion instruments). The final segment, "Act III", is a piece by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler with music by Philip Glass.

English
  • Originally Aired August 19, 1985
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created July 14, 2021 by
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