Art & Performance Shorts

Art & Performance Shorts

Experimental movies of surprising virtuouso performances - circus, street, avant-garde and cultural, including juggler Mario Droguett, the Champions, monologuist Todd Alcott, a zany hot cooking performance video in Thailand, and many others. Some have behind-the-scenes coverage and interviews with the performers, and art videos that are fun to watch.

Beginning when the video medium was brand new, Skip Blumberg's classic videos explore what is unique about the medium to creatively document and expose captivating subjects. "I want to warm up the cool medium of television," Blumberg said in the early days of artists' video recording and tube screen TV sets, and before flat screen TV and the internet, referring to Marshall McCluhan's slogan.

Blumberg is a talent scout for unusual, eccentric, surprising, undiscovered performance talent with a variety of production values and styles of coverage.

His videos about art and artists are artworks themselves, many in permanent collections of art museums around the world.

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Art & Performance Shorts
  • American Pixilation Dance Theatre presents

    (1975, 3:00)
    by Jane Aaron and Skip Blumberg
    Impossible choreography, antic stunts and magical tricks for a pixilating auto-intervalometer super-8mm film camera on location at Stony Clove Notch Pond in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Dancers (in order of appearance): Alice Wexler, Skip Blum...

  • Essentials of Tap Technique

  • The Champions: 6 Beats

    (1992, 2:34)
    "Are you ready for this?" Bold rhythmic cheer by the Champions, a performance group of young girls on location in NYC L.E.S. housing project.

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  • ConCreep

    (1995, 4:30)
    A compelling street performer attracts a crowd on lower Broadway until NYPD interrupts.

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  • JGLNG (pronounced "juggling")

    (1975, 5:15)
    Black silhouettes on hot white background causes after-images in the eye, not the screen. Then we explore the Sarasota, FL backyard home of a circus performing family. The relationship between performer and director flip when the performer directs the camera (while juggling).

  • Nam June Paik: #1 Video Artist (G-rated short)

    (2006, 8:30)
    G-rated 9-minute digest of the 86-minute DVD homage Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master.

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  • Seoul Brother Report

    (1986, 3:58)
    Camera journalist Skip Blumberg reports on Korean traditional and avant garde culture for Nam June Paik's 1986 3-country live TV extravaganza "Bye Bye Kipling" broadcast on PBS, KBS and NHK.

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  • Todd Alcott: Keys

    (1992, 5:24)
    Ever lost your keys? Did it change your life?

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  • Todd Alcott: Living in Flames

    (1989, 3:50)
    Is he acting? or a real lunatic on the street? Rated R: language.

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  • Todd Alcott: Television

    (1990, 1:53)
    An instant classic fulfills the cliché of what the talking television is really thinking... and forcefully demanding... that you should only watch the screen.

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  • FCHP Park Celebration!: Trailer

    (2007, Trailer)
    Al fresco performance that’s a true civic expression celebrates the re-opening of the park that had been closed since the collapse of the Twin Towers 3 blocks away. With Movement Theatre Company, SilverCloud Hoop Dancers, An Hysterical Walking Tour, musical saw virtuoso Moses Jos...

  • Flying Morning Glory (on fire)

    (1985, 3:52)
    A zany hot cooking/performance video in Thailand. “A perfect video.” - Global Village Documentary Film & Video Festival.

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  • City Beat

    (1980/ 2010, 7:30)
    Early 3-channel art video (recently restored combined on one channel). The repetition of urban action becomes a symphony of rhythms, building to cacophony and back. Produced with 12 Twin Cities video artists at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis. Installation in IDS Center’s Crysta...

  • Calypso Tumblers

    (2003, 6:44)
    One of NYC’s best street performance group's stellar act with a message. In Battery Park.

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  • Pick Up Your Feet: The Tigers

    Sophie doesn't show up for practice and the team is pissed; but Marlene and the team are ecstatic with their speed jumping!

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  • Bicentennial trailer Uncle Sam

  • Century's End MoreArtistsMovies.com

  • Culture Reel Seoul Bro spot

  • "TV In & TV Out" by Andy Mann & Skip Blumberg

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  • The First International Whistling Show trailer

    See the full-length early video doc on SkipsClassicVideos.vhx.tv.

  • FCHP Park Celebration!

    (2007, 16:00)
    Al fresco performance that’s a true civic expression celebrates the re-opening of the park that had been closed since the collapse of the Twin Towers 3 blocks away. With Movement Theatre Company, SilverCloud Hoop Dancers, An Hysterical Walking Tour, musical saw virtuoso Moses Josia...

  • The First International Whistling Show whistling montage

    Edit specially for the World Whistlers Convention 2022 - Opening Concert in Tokyo, Japan!

  • "Dancing Hands" (excerpts)

    "Dancing Hands" (excerpts from half-hour TV program) Choreography for fingers, hands and arms.
    Producer, director, concept: @SkipBlumberg. Choreographees/performers: @KeithTerry, @Shalimar, @MrWiggles @RobertLaFosse @WendyPerrin @HaroldNicholas @BlondellCummings @EllenFisher @SallyHess

  • Todd Alcott Television