description - In "The Proposition" an improvisational comedy troupe creates skits on the spot with audience participation. The four performers ask the viewing audience (who call in their suggestions) to supply key concepts or images, and work them into their… subject - Participatory theater Comedy Improvisation (Acting) Live television programs Parodies relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000330-proposition-the

description - In this playful and humorous look at relationships scripted by Dennis Day, Rebecca, a graphics consultant, and Kevin, a systems analyst, have continuing encounters with each other. The nature of their relationship is never quite clear. Are they… subject - Interpersonal relations relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000073-oh-nothing

description - A young woman, Ena, journeys through the desert on a bicycle, arriving exhausted at the home of a fortuneteller, who convinces her to have a tarot card reading. The reading reveals much of Ena's past and much that is in her future, but she declines… subject - Drama Interpersonal relations Nineteen thirties Photography Travel Tarot relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000078-ena-s-adventures-part-ii

description - In this short, moody work by the Concert Dance Company, dancers strike poses around a rushing river. The dancers merge with the surrounding landscape, echoing the curves and bends in trees and river rocks. Images of the steady motion of the river and… subject - Natural areas Modern dance relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000215-as-quiet-as

description - This work features an elaborate play of sound, color and light. Abstract images manipulated into a tunnel effect seem to carry the viewer deeper and deeper into the space of the monitor. Some existing footage is incorporated, including the surface of… subject - Color Video art Light Music relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000116-music-image-workshop-tristan-and-isolde

description - Performance artists, musicians, and poets stage works for the camera in this video by Davidson Gigliotti. Stuart Sherman arranges card games, chess pieces, foliage, and miniatures. Julia Heyward delivers a singing monologue, incorporating bird songs… subject - Music Performance art Poetry relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000110-chant-a-capella

description - In "Inertia," a person remains seated in a desert setting. Through time-lapse techniques, the sun rises and sets. Clouds move swiftly across the sky. Finally, the person leaves and walks away. Voiceover text implores the viewer not to consider the… subject - Landscape relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000120-inertia

description - In Ilene Segalove's "California Casual" California wives talk about their husbands' relationship to clothing. The women describe their husbands' appearances, referring to unseen photographs. Conversations shift to the virtues of wash-and-wear… subject - Clothing and dress relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000121-california-casual

description - A series of still images of dancers performing a solo, duet, trio, and quartet are edited together to create the suggestion of movement. John Budde provided the concept and the photography and Elizabeth Keene provided the choreography. An ambient… subject - Dance Modern dance Photography relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000212-pale-cool-pale-warm

description - A collection of scenes/images that, ostensibly, tells the story of a search for missing images, involving an expedition to a secret world (Nomala) with a nomadic people who control images. It is less of a narrative, and more of an essay on the… subject - Silkworms relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000071-l-image

description - Ruth Stone was born in 1915 in Roanoke, Virginia. Her numerous honors include the Bunting Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Delmore Schwartz Award, and the Shelly Memorial Award. She is Professor of English at the State University of New… subject - Oral interpretation of poetry Poetry Poetry reading relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000006-poetry-breaks-i-ruth-stone

description - Bill Charette's "Northlight" looks at three different artists with studios in the same building. A painter working from a still life talks about the importance of light. A woman who makes sculptures talks about her obsession with the equilateral… subject - Artists Artists' studios relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000090-northlight

description - The artist tells the amusing true story of a trip to Turkey and his attempts at learning and speaking the Turkish language. At first, he sits in front of the camera and tells his story directly. Then he is shown telling the story on a monitor in what… subject - Communication Language and languages Turkish language relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000018-digital-speech

description - Twentieth Century Artists raw material on the artist Lee Krasner, consisting of three-hour interview on three video cassettes. Tape 1 (60:00): Childhood; influence of Hebrew on her art; influence of calligraphy on her art; attitudes toward feminism;… subject - Art, Modern--20th century Abstract expressionism Interviews Painting, Abstract--United States Unedited footage New York School of Art Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000290-lee-krasner-interview

description - In "Criss X Cross," by Myriam Alaux, dance sequences express the hidden emotions of three characters caught up in a philosophical chamber drama. Two women and a man in formal evening wear toss back champagne and weave in and out of couplings that… subject - Interpersonal relations Dance Storytelling relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000070-criss-x-cross

description - Two ballet dancers, a man and a woman, prepare for rehearsal in a studio as a man's voice issues directions. Coming together, they perform a lyrical and expressive duet, as light streams through windows in the background. Music is Johann Pachelbel's… subject - Ballet Dance relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000109-in-the-rehearsal-room

description - In "The Reverie," which is approximately three and one-half minutes in length, moving images of actual human subjects overlap and dissolve with realistic black-and-white drawings depicting the same subjects. The work ends with images of a stark… subject - Experimental films Drawing Video art relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000323-reverie-the

description - In "Dream Moments," which is approximately five minutes long, a figure walking across the beach is surrounded by manipulated backgrounds that dissolve into one another. Images of traffic and flowing curtains are juxtaposed against the recurring sight… subject - Experimental films Dreams Ocean Video art relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000324-dream-moments

description - Filmed in extreme desert conditions "Event Horizon" looks at a landscape interrupted and transformed by visible signs of heat. The waviness blurs objects and figures, creating a mirage effect and rendering familiar objects unrecognizable. The work… subject - Deserts Experimental films Heat Video art relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000326-event-horizon

description - Brazilian artist Eder Santos tells the story of an elderly woman's reminiscence of an important relationship as seen through her possessions and the furniture in her home, which evoke memories of a shared lifetime. -- WGBH press release This short… subject - Interior architecture Memory relation - Identifier - http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000273-lies-and-humiliations