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1 "DESTRICTED" For this series of short films, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Mike Figgis, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Gaspar Gaspar: see Wise Men of the East. Noe have--or soon will have--created (at the behest of Neville Wakefield, Mel Agace, and Andrew Hale) some of the sexiest moments in recent cinema, Strictly for adults.

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2 AUA AUA - Air Traffic Control Unit Airspace
AUA - America Under Attack
AUA - American Ultrarunning Association
AUA - American Unitarian Association
AUA - American Urological Association
AUA - Another Useless Acronym
AUA - Aruba, Aruba - Reina Beatrix (Airport Code)
AUA - Association of University Administrators (UK)
AUA - Association of University Anesthesiologists
AUA - Association of University Architects
AUA - Austrian Airlines
 AUA (DOROTHY IANNONE) Living in Germany since the late '60s, expatriate Dorothy lannone has created a voluptuous, libertarian, and unashamedly erotic body of work. A film (from 1972) framed within a large, hand-painted box sculpture, Aua Aua celebrates life with her lover Dieter Roth.

3 FALLEN (FRED KELEMEN) Kelemen's searing camera follows the existential crisis of a man tortured by his failure to stop a woman jumping from a bridge and his journey through the city of Riga, retracing her life.

4 STORIES ARE PROPAGANDA (PHILIPPE PARRENO AND RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA) An anxious poem of what-ifs and do-you-remember-whens, this love letter to the recent past describes our world as it rapidly recedes into a fading collective memory.

5 DREAMING OF THE DREAM OF THE DREAM (JORDAN WOLFSON) Wolfson's silent collage of water sequences from classic cartoons exists in one print only. When the print wears out, the film ceases to exist.

6 PEDESTRIAN CINEMA (BERNADETTE CORPORATION) In this yearlong project in Berlin, Bernadette Corporation questions the role of cinema, articulating it as an ongoing action incorporating projection, screen, wall, objects, street, and time.

7 GUARDS (FRANCIS ALYS) As part of his Artangel project "7 Walks," Alys's film tracks sixty-four Coldstream Coldstream, small town, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the English border. General Monck raised troops there in 1660 for his march into England that resulted in the restoration of Charles II to the throne. The regiment became known as the Coldstream Guards, one of the regiments of guards of the royal household. Coldstream, like Gretna Green, was a marriage resort from 1754 to 1856. Guards walking through the Square Mile of London.

8 BURN (OR, THE 2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS thermodynamics /ther·mo·dy·nam·ics/ (-di-nam´iks) the branch of science dealing with heat, work, and energy, their interconversion, and problems related thereto.

ther·mo·dy·nam·ics (thûr
) (BRADLEY EROS E·ros or e·ros (rs, îr-)
n.
) A vertical section of found footage of a stripper melts as Eros burns the film before our eyes, to the sound of Scorsese taxi driver Travis Bickle describing the "filthy mass" of pimps, prostitutes, and hoodlums who pour into New York's streets at night.

9 WINTER SOLDIER (WINTERFILM COLLECTIVE) Veterans recount their experiences in Vietnam in this searing 1972 film rereleased this year.

10 EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD (WILLIAM KIRKLEY) A documentary portrait of the life of Warhol film star, poet extraordinaire, and national treasure Taylor Mead.

THE ANNE AND JOEL EHRENKRANZ CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). Opened to the public in 1931, the museum actively supports American art through the purchase and exhibition of the work of living artists., NEW YORK, CHRISSIE ILES IS CO-ORGANIZING THE MUSEUM'S 2006 BIENNIAL.
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Title Annotation:FILM: BEST OF 2005
Author:Iles, Chrissie
Publication:Artforum International
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Date:Dec 1, 2005
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