"Dara Birnbaum's Pop-Pop Video... [has] been hailed as [a] classic of the new wave. [The tape] juxtaposes fragments from a soap opera with sequences of ice skating races. The graceful movements of the skaters punctuate repeated excerpts from a dreadfully intense discussion between a doctor and his patient: ‘He doesn't do anything, doesn't say anything.... It's just the way he looks at me.... That sound crazy?’ The narrative builds up slowly as a few more words of the deadly dialogue are released. Extended in this way, the pathos is bare, the narrative content becomes meaningless and the result is particularly moving." --Katherine Elwes, Performance (July/August 1981)
Dara Birnbaum
Director
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film70%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Trials of Cate McCall63%
The Safety of Objects65%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Lucky Them60%
Halftime67%
Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here61%
Strange Weather58%
Hounddog64%
IMAX Hubble71%
Petals on the Wind65%
The Poker House62%
Bastard Out of Carolina70%
I Believe in Unicorns64%
Love & Sex61%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
The Souvenir60%
Iron Jawed Angels67%
Tupac: Resurrection79%
