CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of Gretchen Bender measure 2.8 linear feet and date from 1980-2004. This material documents her career as a filmmaker and multimedia ...

Screengrab from an excerpt of Gretchen Bender’s “Total Recall” (1984), as seen at The Kitchen, New York, in 2013 (via vimeo.com) In a 1984 text by Bender, which was displayed on the wall in all caps ...

Gretchen Bender emerged in the early 1980s in New York as a contemporary of the Pictures Generation. A commentator on the age of television, her work continues its relevancy in today’s privatized and ...

Near the end of the multipart video installation “Total Recall”—screening now, with breakneck intensity, at the Kitchen, where it was first exhibited in 1987—fireworks erupt in reverse. As bright ...

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