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Series III: Video Recordings and Motion Picture Film

Conditions Governing Access

There may not be access copies available for all audiovisual material. Please contact a Fales archivist.

Subseries A: Video Recordings

Scope and Contents note

Consists of screen projections from Tony Martin's visual compositions, recordings of performances and an interview.

Conditions Governing Access

Access copies for some materials are available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Please contact fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596 to request item by using the access DVD ID number.

"Bridge", 1980, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0001 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0023 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format:

Duration: unknown

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0023.

"Flash" performance - Katonah Museum of Art, February 7, 1981, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0002 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0026 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format:

Duration: unknown

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0026.

WHO YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS WHO IS LOOKING; - Audio: STEREO, February 18, 1992, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0003 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0030 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: VHS

Duration: 6 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0030.

Tape Music Center Concert Retrospective in San Francisco, undated

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0004 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0032 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: VHS

Duration: 102 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0032.

2, undated

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0005 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0034 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: VHS

Duration: unknown

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0034.

FIVE STANZAS, 2003, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0006 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0036 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: Betacam SP Mega

Duration: 7 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0036.

Over Under Across; Finished at Standby, January 2003, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0007 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0038 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: Betacam SP

Duration: 6 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0038.

FIVE STANZAS - silent 5 minutes -, c.1970, 2003, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0008 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0040 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVD

Duration: 5 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0040.

Tony Martin interview; Mode Records re: Brian Brandt - N.Y.C., January 28, 2004, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0009 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0043 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVD

Duration: 37 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0043.

sunloom - 6 minutes silent, 2005, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0010 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0049 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVD

Duration: 6 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0049.

Conversing; Ear to the Ground; In the Wake of Edges, 2005, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID:190.0011 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0046 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVD

Duration: 13 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0046.

Wow & Flutter: The San Francisco Tape Music Center 1961 - now, undated

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0012 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0051 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVD

Duration: 76 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0012.

WHO YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS WHO IS LOOKING; - Audio: STEREO, February 18, 1992, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0014 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: 1"

Duration: [unknown]

Light Marks Converse; ~one hour: 4 takes; 2003, 2004, January 27, 2004, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0015 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0060 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General note

Original format: DVCam

Duration: 60 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0060.

Game Room at Howard Wise Gallery, 1968, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0027 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0062 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General

Original format: DVD

Duration: 2 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD #190.0062.

Tony Martin Interview, February 27, 2004, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0068 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0065 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General

Orginal format: VHS

Duration: 120 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD #190.0065.

"Play I"-Tony Martin, undated

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0066 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0054 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General

Original format: Betacam SP

Duration: 3 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0054.

Tony Martin-Improvisations, October 13, 2004, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0067 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0057 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General

Orignal format: DVD

Duration: 27 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0057.

Tony Martin Interview with Julie Martin, February 7, 2007, inclusive

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0069 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 190.0072 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General

Original format: DVD

Duration: 80 minutes

Existence and Location of Copies

Access DVD available. Please request access DVD # 190.0072.

SF Tape Music Center Revisited, Undated

Box: 3, Media: ID: 190.0005 (Material Type: Moving Images)

General Note

Original format: VHS

Duration: 80 mintues

Subseries B: Motion Picture Film

Scope and Contents Note

Consists of Tony Martin's visual compositions, mostly in collaboration with other artists, along with paper documentation regarding some of the works. Paper documents stored within film cans have been removed, foldered, and given the same ID number as the corresponding film element but with a letter B at end of ID number. (Ex. Film: 190.0001A, Folder 190.0001B.)

Conditions Governing Access

Film materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers.

Tarot, 1964-1965, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0016A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Original format: 16mm

Duration: unknown

Tarot - Artist's Descriptive Notes, Undated

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0016B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Desert Ambulance; silent; 1963, 1963

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0017 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Original format: 16mm

Duration: unknown

Room - '63-64, 1963-1964, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0018 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Original format: 16mm

Duration: unknown

"Play 4" Film I; all illumination for Morton Subotnick, 1967

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0019A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Original format: 16mm

Duration: unknown

"Play 4" Film I - Artist's Descriptive Notes, Undated

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0019B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Play 4" Film II; all illumination for Morton Subotnick, 1967

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0020A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Original format: 16mm

Duration: unknown

"Play 4" Film II - Artist's Descriptive Notes, Undated

Box: 4, Folder: ID 190.0020B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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