Peter Campus Movies

In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how...

Writes Campus, "My most dryly stated tape, free of insinuation, [R-G-B] is simply the exploration by a performer of the color system in which he is...

Cutting between snowy fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of performers moving through a stark, windswept landscape. The 16mm film...

Here, Peter Campus explores video, not as a demonstration of special effects, but as a way of placing his own body in the presence of an immediate...

Campus investigates the metaphoric overlap between properties of the video camera and processes of human perception, an area of great interest to...

"The tape is one of the seminal works in video. In three short exercises, Campus uses basic techniques of video technology and his own image to...

Video work by Peter Campus

shinnecock bay presents two views of the eponymous body of water on the coast of Long Island. Shot five years apart and on opposite sides of the...

shinnecock bay presents two views of the eponymous body of water on the coast of Long Island. Shot five years apart and on opposite sides of the...

Translating to the "world below," Kiva refers to the round chamber used by the Pueblo for ceremonial and social gatherings. The ceremonial chamber...

In 2000 [Campus] went through several months of radiation treatment after being diagnosed with cancer. He created a three-part video piece about this...

Dynamic Field Series is made up of three elements and four distinct spaces that turn within a closed loop: the artist's body, his electronic double,...

A jumble of mirrored tiles is slowly placed on a table-top, the random heap reflecting a fragmentary portrait of the face of the person performing...

In "East Ended Tape" Peter Campus and Susan Dowling are the subjects of a series of video portraits. The shadow of Dowling's hand passes over her...

Writes Campus, "I made this tape shortly after my father's death. His death permeates the tape, both in the quality of my performance and in the...