Image Union

Two part Image Union episode featuring "The Sadness of a Cleaning Woman at Midnight" by Deborah Scholinski and Milo Yelesiyevich and "Time" by Daryl Moore.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring "Summer Camp" by Phil Rosenthal, "The Sandwichman" by Jon Freedman, and "Aircraft Sear" by uncredited videomakers.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring "In the Course of Time" by Jac Rubenstein and Dan Andries, "Faces" by Dino Malcolm, "Circus Magic" by an uncredited filmmaker, "The Laws of Physics" by Dick Schaefer, and "No Gasoline" by Dino Malcolm.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring "TV" by Robert Medich, "George Talking Straight" by Jean de Segonzac and Marian Marzynski, and "Between Dots" by Arturo Cubacub.

Image Union episode featuring "I'd Like to Hate Myself in the Morning" by Michael Carlin. Black and white film that depicts the grim consequences of going on a diet and giving up smoking at the same time.

Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. "Cause I've Already Been To Hell" by Marianne Hjertstrand and Birgitta Karlstrom. This film focuses on the difficulty Vietnam veterans have had dealing with the psychological impact of their tour of duty. The tape is structured mainly around footage of a roomful of veterans discussing their experiences with each other, cutting to other interviews with veterans at times, or having them narrate the stories behind gruesome war photographs. It was filmed in New York in May 1981.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring music videos. Songs include "PRL 8-53," "Vasectomy," and "How It's Done" by Phil 'N' the Blanks, "Video Child" by The Almighty Crabbes, "Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling" by The Suburbs, "Language is a Virus" by Laurie Anderson, "and "Television Delivers People" by Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman. "Television Delivers People" is not a music video, per se, but a text-based manifesto.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring work by Jeff Lint and the Chicago Filmmakers. Segments include "Duck," "Imperialist Overture," "Flowchart," and "Defense for Atomic Attack."

Episode of Image Union featuring the work "Pandemonium" by Frank Garvey. Color video. An eerie experimental short set in the decaying industrial ruins of Chicago.

This episode of Image Union features "Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party" by Videotunes. Mark Naftalin (piano) and his band perform a blues concert. John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Tucker, and Frances Clay are guest stars.

An episode of Image Union featuring "Pass/Fail" by Roy Campanella, Jr.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring "The Space Cadets" by Heather McAdams, "The Cough" by Teddy Dibble, "Duet for Tap and Galoshes" by Laurie McDonald, "City Slickers" by Rufus Butler Seder, and "Sunstone" by Ed Emshwiller.

An episode of Image Union featuring the work "One Sturdy String" by Mirko Popadic. A history of traditional Serbian music. Some footage from Popadic's "Serbian Wedding" tape. We see the different ways Serbian Chicagoans incorporate this music into their lives, from extremely traditional performances to weddings to rock interpretations. We see footage of the Kapugi brothers playing the tamburitza. There is a lot of talk about the happiness produced by Serbian music and about the ways it combines with American music. Followed by "Studs Terkel at the Steel Mill" featuring Studs Terkel interviewing steel worker and organizer Alice Peurala.

Episode of Image Union featuring the work "Love Tapes" by Wendy Clarke. "Love Tapes" is a collection of videos from an experiment in which people were allowed to sit alone in a cubicle, only with a video camera and monitor, and talk about love for three minutes. Hundreds of people participated in this experiment, and this collection features 8 full length tapes.

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring music videos. Music videos include "PRL 8-53," "Vasectomy," and "How It's Done" by Phil 'N' the Blanks, "Video Child" by The Almighty Crabbes, "Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling" by the Suburbs, "Language is a Virus" by Laurie Anderson, and "September" by Floyd Dillman.

Image Union episode featuring "Inside Spring Training" by Tom Weinberg. A look at the 1978 White Sox at preseason practice in Florida.

This episode features 9 thirty-second commercials produced for performance artists in addition to several short films. NOTE: The artists commercials are not available online. This means the timecodes are not accurate for the online version.

Two part episode of Image Union featuring two films: "The Neightborhood" by W. Schwartz and A.J. Kornbluth and "A Letter From Trinidad" by Myrna Changar.

"Cocaine Express" is a short documentary about the experiences of photographer Henry Herr Gill and writer Rick Soll, journalists for the Chicago Sun Times. They describe the details and enormous scale of the underground drug trade between the United States and nations in South America. The footage is mostly black and white photographic stills with Gill and Soll narrating. They trace their steps through different South and Central American towns, and talk about various characters and situations they encountered along the way.