Movies

  • 2021
    Tales from the Planet Kolkata

    Tales from the Planet Kolkata

    Tales from the Planet Kolkata

    02021HD

    A personal film about a city that may only exist in a film or on TV; a film about various dreams about Calcutta. It starts with a variation on the...

    Tales from the Planet Kolkata
  • 2009
    Evil.12.edit.b (fear, spectra & fake emotion)

    Evil.12.edit.b (fear, spectra & fake emotion)

    Evil.12.edit.b (fear, spectra & fake emotion)

    02009HD

    Writes Cokes, "Evil.12 is a 12-minute video animation with sound. The text is excerpted from Brian Massumi's essay 'Fear (The Spectrum Said),' which...

    Evil.12.edit.b (fear, spectra & fake emotion)
  • 2012
    Evil.35: Carlin / Owners

    Evil.35: Carlin / Owners

    Evil.35: Carlin / Owners

    02012HD

    Evil.35: Carlin/Owners (2012), uses text from comedian George Carlin set to music by the post-punk band Gang of Four.

    Evil.35: Carlin / Owners
  • 1990
    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    01990HD

    In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

    Fade to Black
  • 2010
    Evil.11: The Katrina Debacle

    Evil.11: The Katrina Debacle

    Evil.11: The Katrina Debacle

    02010HD

    "Evil.11 (The Katrina Debacle) is a text animated essay about the Bush Administration's response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. The text is...

    Evil.11: The Katrina Debacle
  • 2011
    Evil.27: Selma

    Evil.27: Selma

    Evil.27: Selma

    02011HD

    Video work on the Civil Rights Movement borrowing its core text from “Notes from Selma: On Non-Visibility” by the Alabama collective Our...

    Evil.27: Selma
  • 2002
    Shrink! 3.1-2

    Shrink! 3.1-2

    Shrink! 3.1-2

    02002HD

    The third part of Cokes's Shrink! trilogy in which he "shrinks" criticism.

    Shrink! 3.1-2
  • 2002
    Shrink! 2.1-4

    Shrink! 2.1-4

    Shrink! 2.1-4

    02002HD

    The second part in Cokes's Shrink! trilogy in which he "shrinks" criticism.

    Shrink! 2.1-4
  • 2001
    Shrink! 1.1-4

    Shrink! 1.1-4

    Shrink! 1.1-4

    02001HD

    Taking its name from The Notwist’s 1998 album (and no doubt also riffing on the informal term for a psychoanalyst), the ‘Shrink’...

    Shrink! 1.1-4
  • 1995
    No Sell Out

    No Sell Out

    No Sell Out

    01995HD

    No Sell Out employs desktop video to position images of Malcolm X in tension with commercial culture. It is a result of a series of loaded questions...

    No Sell Out
  • 1992
    The Book of Love

    The Book of Love

    The Book of Love

    01992HD

    Writes Cokes: "In 1984 I conceived of the idea of producing a documentary that framed its own devices. I was interested in how a woman, specifically...

    The Book of Love
  • 1970
    B4 & After the Studio Pt 1

    B4 & After the Studio Pt 1

    B4 & After the Studio Pt 1

    01970HD

    Starting with a consideration of the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988, in New York’s East Village, Cokes’ video expands to a broader...

    B4 & After the Studio Pt 1
  • 1988
    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    01988HD

    This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

    Black Celebration
  • 1999
    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    01999HD

    "Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." -...

    Ad Vice