Tongues: Savage/Love
1981 · Standard-definition video (color, sound)
25:39 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Shirley Clarke
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The Arts for Television
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Performance Video
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Shirley Clarke was an American filmmaker and video artist who pioneered experimental cinema and early video art from the 1950s onward. Working primarily in 16mm film and later video, she created formally inventive documentaries and abstract works that rejected commercial narrative conventions. Her practice ranged from choreographic film to portrait studies and expanded into video installation and performance in her later decades. Clarke's work remains central to postwar avant-garde film history and the emergence of artist video.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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