Series X: Video and Film, 1959 - 1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents note
Series X contains completed film and video works, original film and video production and source materials and commercial videotapes from David Wojnarowicz's personal collection.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into four subseries: Subseries A: Video; Subseries B: Film - Originals; Subseries C: Film - Access Prints; and Subseries D: Commercial Video by Others.
Subseries A: Video
Scope and Contents
Subseries A: Video Recordings contains completed video works, films transferrred to video, plus additional original source material by David Wojnarowicz.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
[Animo; Bug; Little House], [1985]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:07:00
Video
[Blue Boys Slo Mo 1], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:22:17
Video
Video
[Blue Boys Slo Mo 2], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:12:29
Video
Video
[R+R/ Phil Zwickler], 1987
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: [00:60:00]
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #1], 1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: [00:20:00]
Video
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #2], 1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: [00:20:00]
Video
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #3], 1989
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: 20 min.
Video
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #4], 1989
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: 20 min.
Video
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #5], 1989
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: 20 min.
Video
[Eleventh Hour; Art and AIDs #6], 1989
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam
Duration: 20 min.
Video
Eleventh Hour - broadcast, [1989]
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 30 min.
Video
[WBAI Interview w/ Artists Space and David Wojnarowicz], 1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 01:17:00
[Kitchen Tape 1 Production Element], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic Duration: 00:37:01
Video
[Kitchen Tape 2 Production Element], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:33:51
Video
[Kitchen Tape 3 Production Element], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:57:44
Video
[Kitchen Tape 4 Production Element], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:35:12
Video
[ITSOFOMO #1], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS [Dub]
Duration: [00:60:00]
[ITSOFOMO #2], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS [Dub]
Duration: [00:60:00]
[ITSOFOMO #3], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS [Dub]
Duration: [00:60:00]
[ITSOFOMO #4], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS [Dub of 092.0056]
Duration: [00:60:00]
[ITSOFOMO #3 - Edit Master], [1989]
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 35 min. 55 sec.
Video
[ITSOFOMO #4 - Edit Master], [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 32 min. 51 sec.
Video
[ITSOFOMO - Dat Xfer Workprint] (audio only), [1989]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: [00:60:00]
[ITSOFOMO - DAT Transfer], [1991]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam SP
Duration: [00:49:00]
[Damned in the USA], 1991
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS [Dub]
Duration: [00:68:00]
[Upstate w/Marion Scemama, Parts 1, 2, & 3], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: S-VHS
Duration: 02:00:00
Preservation note: Three Betacam SP masters were created from this single VHS source material as part of a project that was intitiated by the estate in the 1990s. The masters were migrated to a digital file format by the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Department in 2020.
Video
Video
Video
[Upstate w/Marion Scemama, Parts 1 & 2], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: S-VHS
Duration: 02:00:00
Preservation Note: This long-play VHS was divided into two parts when tranferred to Betacam SP.
[Upstate w/Marion Scemama - Tape #1 Edit Master], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: [unknown] Preservation note: This "Upstate" edit master could not be digitized due to advanced degradation.
[Upstate w/Marion Scemama - Tape #2 Edit Master], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 16 min. 48 sec.
Video
Video
[Lesbians, Globe Gun, Solar System, Indians, Ships...], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:31:56
Video
[Project: Red, Hot and Blue], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS [Dub]
Duration: 00:03:15
[Steve Brown/ David Wojnarowicz], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: [00:60:00]
Video
[Decomposed Animal, Earthquake, Commercials, NEA Controversy], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: [unknown]
[G.I. Joe, Pulverizer, Robots, Evader, Arctic Blast], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: [unknown]
[Making Plaster Heads], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: [unknown]
[Son of Sam and Delilah], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: [unknown]
[Plain Ants, Sex Ants, Target, Guns, Clock, Monkey, House... Bigots, Cathedral, Color American Flag], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: [unknown]
Video
[Stock Images for Sec. III Performance], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:10:32
Video
[Fireworks, Steer Wrestling, Wagon Wheel... Reagan, Bombs, Scorpion, Dust Feet], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:40:59
Video
[Black and White, Flag at Night, Los Angeles Muscle, etc.], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:23:00
Video
[Slowed Master], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 00:20:23
Video
[WOJO NEA #1], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source: Betacam SP
Duration: 30 min.
Video
[WOJO NEA #2], [undated]
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Betacam SP
Duration: 30 min.
Video
[WOJO NEA #3], [undated]
Language of Materials
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source format: Betacam SP
Duration: 30 min.
Video
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 1], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz. Titles include: Frog Dance, Beautiful People, Beautiful People alternate titles and outtakes, 4 untitled films. Also includes Super8mm film A-PT.2 'Bits' (Hell Stuff-Caven Pt.) created by Wojnarowicz collaborator, Tommy Turner.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 01:28:07
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 2], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz. Titles include: 6 untitled Peter Hujar films, A Fire In My Belly, 3 Howdy Doody films, Heroin.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 01:16:00
Video
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 3], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz. Titles include: Where Evil Dwells Outtakes Roll 1, Where Evil Dwells Outtakes Roll 2, Mexico Film Footage 1, Mexico Film Footage 2, No title - "Rolls 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8", 1 untitled film, New York Cultural Centre Annex Performance.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 02:01:24
Video
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 4], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz. Titles include: Untitled - "Rolls 9, 10, 11", Untitled - "Rolls 17, 18, 19", Beautiful People - alternate titles, Cockfights, 39 untitled films.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 02:00:48
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 5], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz, including Beautiful People and 42 untitled films.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 01:54:00
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 6], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz collaborator, Tommy Turner. Titles include: Ass Kick', Roll 'CP', Dust Reel, A-PT. 2, Party Reel, Dog Head Reel, Maggot Reel, Hell Reel, Graveyard Ripoff, Donuts, Woji At Horror House, Cigarette Trick, Snow Fun At The Top.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 02:01:00
[David Wojnarowicz Super8mm Source Films - Tape 7], [circa mid-1980s]
Scope and Contents
Telecine transfers of Super8mm films created by Wojnarowicz collaborator, Tommy Turner. Titles include: Buses, Graveyard Approach, Roll M.C., Stacy And Baby, Stacy And Baby 2, Stacy And Baby 3, Stacy And Baby 4, Stacy And Baby 5, Bonfire, Bookstore Bits, Roll HL.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: VHS
Duration: 00:28:00
Subseries B: Film - Originals
Scope and Contents
Subseries B: Film - Originals contains completed film works plus original source material by David Wojnarowicz. Access copies may not be available for all material.
Beautiful People, 1988-1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: 504 ft.
Duration: 00:34:11
Beautiful People - Out-takes (color), 1988-1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [66 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 3 Super8mm rolls
Video
Beautiful People - Out-takes and Alt. Titles (B+W), 1988-1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: [134 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 4 super8mm rolls
Beautiful People - Alt. Titles (color), 1988-1989
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: [65 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 2 super8mm rolls
Compilation Reel, [1988 as per edge code]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [363 ft.]
Video
[Mexico Film Footage], [1988 as per edge code]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: 386 ft.
Duration: 00:19:35
Description:
[Mexico Film Footage II], [1983, 1986 as per edge code]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 74 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Mexico, etc... Peter, etc... [as per container], [circa 1986, 1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [225 ft.]
Duration: 00:10:22
Description:
Fear of Disclosure, The Psycho-social Implications of HIV Revelation, 1988
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [210 ft.]
Duration: [00:05:00]
Description:
Where Evil Dwells - Camera Original I, [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [400 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Where Evil Dwells - Camera Original II, [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [225 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
[New York Cultural Centre Annex Performance], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 263 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Rolls 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 401 ft. 49 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Rolls 9,10,11], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 149 ft. 70 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Rolls 17,18,19], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 150 ft. 46 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Anti-Gay Bigots, Misc Footage], [1986 as per edge code]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 149 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Frog Dance, etc.], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 522 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Untitled Wojnarowicz Compilation Reel III], [circa mid-1980s]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 93 ft. 35 frames
Duration: 00:04:55
Description:
A Fire in My Belly, [circa 1985]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 262 ft. 24 frames
Duration: [00:12:00]
Video
[Untitled Wojnarowicz Compilation Reel], [late 1980s]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 206 ft. 65 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Video
[Howdy Doody Footage I], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: 360 ft. 66 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
[Howdy Doody Footage II], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: 202 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
[Howdy Doody Footage III], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super8mm
Footage: 388 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Heroin, 1981
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: 51 ft.
Duration: [00:02:50]
Video
[Peter Hujar - Rolls], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [350 ft.]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 6 super8mm rolls
Video
[Heroin - Unedited Color Footage], [circa 1979]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [340 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 7 super8mm rolls
[Cockfights], [1986]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [175 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 4 super8mm rolls
Video
[Out Sarah's Window; Demolition Derby], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [350 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 7 super8mm rolls
Video
[Nature, Water, Swamp], [1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [425 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 9 super8mm rolls
Video
[Rain/Mammals], [1981,1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [425 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 10 super8mm rolls
Video
[Gorillas, Elephants, Waves, Sky], [1986,1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [350 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 7 super8mm rolls]
Video
[Cavern Point/Driving Shots], [1987, 1983]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [275 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 5 super8mm rolls
Video
[Misc. B+W Shots], [1983,1986,1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [400 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 8 super8mm rolls
Video
[Ants] (color), [1986,1987,1988]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [160 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 4 super8mm rolls
[Swamp/Skeleton] (color), [1985, unknown]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [240 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 4 super8mm rolls
[Driving, Sky, and Misc. Shots], [undated]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [290 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 7 super8mm rolls
[Fire Boys, Ants, and Mexico Themes], [1981,1984,1986,1987]
General note
Format: Super8mm
Footage: [300 ft.]
Duration: [unknown]
Description: compilation reel consisting of 6 super8mm rolls
Video
[Unidentified Film w/ David Wojnarowicz], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 16mm
Footage: 128 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
[Nite Scenes w/ David W.(Neg); Centaur Films], [undated]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 16mm
Footage: 102 ft. 6 frames
Duration: [unknown]
Description:
Manhattan Love Suicides by R. Kern, 1984
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: [Super8mm]
[Aeroport/ Train Lines/ Gary/ Rail Landscapes/ Bercy], [Crows], [Bercy Windows, Stones/ Fire], [A) Morphologies, Restaurant Cafe 2], [B) Morphologies, Restaurant Cafe 2], 1984
Scope and Contents
Silent, black and white images of abandoned buildings, crows in trees, a man (Gary Indiana) looking out the window of a train, and David Wojnarowicz in a cafe. The footage was taken in and around Paris, France in the Winter of 1984.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Source Format: Super 8mm film
Duration: 12 min. 30 sec.
Preservation Note: These films were donated as undeveloped Super8mm film cartridges. In 2019, NYU Special Collections facilitated an effort to process and digitally scan the works. The five films were were combined into a single reel and accessed via a single digital file. Photographs of the original cartridges are preserved with the digital file and available upon request.
Annotated Film Containers Box 90, undated
Language of Materials
General
092.0106-092.0123
Annotated Film Containers Box 91, undated
Language of Materials
General
092.0124-092.0128, 092.0133, 092.0136, 092.0146-092.0149 C
Annotated Film Containers Box 92, undated
Language of Materials
General
092.0149 D-092.0154
Annotated Film Containers Box 93, undated
Language of Materials
General
092.0155-092.0157, 092.0160, 092.0162, plus 7 unnumbered folders
Annotated Film Containers Box 94, undated
Language of Materials
General
(Trailer) 1986, N.Y.C, D. Wojnarowicz 228-7024; 092.00158-092.0159 "Nite Scenes w/ David W.; Envelope For Film, "Kin-O-Lux, Inc. - David Wojnarowicz"
Lists and notes on film and video content
Subseries C: Film - Access Prints
Scope and Contents
Subseries C: Film - Access Prints contains completed film works plus original source material by David Wojnarowicz originally on Super8mm preserved on 16mm.
[Heroin - Unedited Color Footage], [circa 1979]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [290 ft.]
Duration: [00:20:00]
Original Format:
Description:
Heroin, 1981
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [92 ft.]
Duration: [00:02:50]
Original Format:
Description:
[Untitled Wojnarowicz Compilation Reel III], [circa mid-1980s]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [209 ft.]
Duration: 00:04:55
Original Format:
Description:
[Mexico Film Footage II], [1983, 1986 as per Super8 edge code]]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [179 ft.]
Duration: 00:04:05
Original Format:
Description:
Mexico, etc... Peter, etc... [as per original container], [circa 1986, 1987]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [405 ft.]
Duration: 00:10:22
Original Format:
Description:
A Fire in My Belly, 1986-1987 (work in progress)
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [470 ft.]
Duration: [00:13:05]
Original Format:
Description:
[Mexico Film Footage], [1988 as per Super8 edge code]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [736 ft.]
Duration: 00:19:35
Original Format:
Description:
Beautiful People, 1988-1989
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [1400 ft.]
Duration: [00:38:00]
Original Format:
Description:
Beautiful People - B+W Extras (Out-takes and Alt. Titles), 1988-1989
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [380 ft.]
Duration: [00:11:00]
Original Format:
Description:
Beautiful People - Color Extras (Out-takes and Alt. Titles), 1988-1989
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [335 ft.]
Duration: [00:10:00]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Preservation note: This is a 2005 preservation print which duplicates cuid41066 and additional related material from another reel or reels.
Video
[Footage for Film About Peter Hujar], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [600 ft.]
Duration: [00:12:00]
Original Format:
Description: compilation reel consisting of 6 super 8mm rolls
Where Evil Dwells, [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [1150 ft.]
Duration: [00:28:00]
Original Format: Super8mm film
Description:
Video
[Howdy Doody #120], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: 330 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Original Format:
Description:
[Howdy Doody #119], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: 659 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Original Format:
Description:
[Howdy Doody #121], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: 706 ft.
Duration: [unknown]
Original Format:
Description:
[Swamp/Skeletons], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [290 ft.]
Duration: 00:13:00
Original Format:
Description:
Video
[Ants] (color), [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [290 ft.]
Duration: 00:08:00
Original Format:
Description:
[Driving, Sky, and Misc. Shots], [undated]
General note
Format: 16mm
Footage: [290 ft.]
Duration: 00:13:00
Original Format:
Description:
Video
Subseries D: Commercial Video by Others
Scope and Contents
Subseries D: Commercial Works by Others contains recordings that made up David Wojnarowicz's personal collection.
