Bruce Yonemoto Movies

  • 1990
    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

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    Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

    Made in Hollywood
  • 1996
    Japan in Paris in L.A.

    Japan in Paris in L.A.

    Japan in Paris in L.A.

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    Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic...

    Japan in Paris in L.A.
  • 1980
    Garage Sale II

    Garage Sale II

    Garage Sale II

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    Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...

    Garage Sale II
  • 1986
    Kappa

    Kappa

    Kappa

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    Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...

    Kappa
  • 1982
    Green Card: An American Romance

    Green Card: An American Romance

    Green Card: An American Romance

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    Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable...

    Green Card: An American Romance
  • 1976
    Garage Sale

    Garage Sale

    Garage Sale

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    GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...

    Garage Sale
  • 1970
    Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

    Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

    Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

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    The documentary explores the enigma of actress and artist Mary Woronov and chronicles her colorful career trajectory as a ground breaking female...

    Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
  • 1984
    Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

    Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

    Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

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    Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

    Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
  • 2010
    Before I Close My Eyes

    Before I Close My Eyes

    Before I Close My Eyes

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    This video focuses on three contemporary Vietnamese men, dressed in Vietnam War-era uniforms, as they watch a recording of the historic televised...

    Before I Close My Eyes
  • 2022
    Cosmopolitan

    Cosmopolitan

    Cosmopolitan

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    Focusing predominantly on Mexico City, this new work is an exploration of immigration and the ways in which different cultures intertwine or remain...

    Cosmopolitan
  • 2007
    Sounds Like the Sound of Music

    Sounds Like the Sound of Music

    Sounds Like the Sound of Music

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    Yonemoto’s video recreates the opening sequence from The Sound of Music, replacing the Austrian Alps with the Peruvian Andes, the village of...

    Sounds Like the Sound of Music
  • 1992
    ahistory

    ahistory

    ahistory

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    Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the...

    ahistory
  • 1984
    Vault

    Vault

    Vault

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    In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl....

    Vault
  • 1988
    Blinky

    Blinky

    Blinky

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    In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in the...

    Blinky
  • 2016
    Far East of Eden

    Far East of Eden

    Far East of Eden

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    This experimental video, created by Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto while artists-in-residence at California’s Montalvo Arts Center, touches on...

    Far East of Eden
  • 1991
    A History of Clouds

    A History of Clouds

    A History of Clouds

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    The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless...

    A History of Clouds
  • 1979
    Based on Romance

    Based on Romance

    Based on Romance

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    This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to...

    Based on Romance
  • 1989
    Framed

    Framed

    Framed

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    Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S....

    Framed
  • 2017
    Barravento Novo

    Barravento Novo

    Barravento Novo

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    Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s...

    Barravento Novo
  • 2002
    Panpanorama

    Panpanorama

    Panpanorama

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    PANPANORAMA features the famous “kiss” in Alfred Hitchcockʼs VERTIGO. The locations which panoramically circle around the lovers in...

    Panpanorama