Gretchen Bender Movies

  • 1981
    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    01981HD

    With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...

    How to Fly
  • 1984
    Wild Dead I, II, III

    Wild Dead I, II, III

    Wild Dead I, II, III

    01984HD

    Two-channel video on four CRT monitors with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann.

    Wild Dead I, II, III
  • 1983
    Reality Fever

    Reality Fever

    Reality Fever

    01983HD

    An early, single-channel version of Bender's video collages, one with found, created, and manipulated imagery, including a Folgers coffee commercial,...

    Reality Fever
  • 1984
    Dumping Core

    Dumping Core

    Dumping Core

    01984HD

    In Dumping Core, a frenzy of images appears across thirteen video monitors, creating an information overload set to a proto-techno soundtrack. The...

    Dumping Core
  • 1987
    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    01987HD

    "Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall (1987) is the artist’s largest realized work of electronic theater, an eleven-channel performance...

    Total Recall