On ScreenMovie
Analog video was not only an alternative to more expensive motion picture film for artists. It was also a viable new medium with specific attributes all its own. In On Screen, characteristics such as video snow and audio static become more pronounced and distorted with each subsequent version of the artist within the “TV” frame. As Lynda Benglis performs a sequence of pulling faces for the camera in triplicate, we become aware that the performance is based on memory, sometimes faulty—a kind of symbiotic conflation of artist and machine.
About On Screen
On Screen is a 1972 documentary movie directed by Lynda Benglis.
The production information lists a runtime of 8m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Lynda Benglis. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
