Tom Rubnitz Videoworks: Sexy, Wiggy, Desserty
Tom Rubnitz
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Camp, Gender, Home DVD, Humor, LGBTQ, Music, Performance, Videoworks
Until his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Tom Rubnitz produced short, humourous videotapes featuring some of New York’s most outrageously talented musicians, artists and drag queens. Influenced by mass media entertainment, Rubnitz crafted hilarious videos which simultaneously celebrated and parodied pop culture’s bountiful energy and inventiveness. As Tom said, “I wanted to make things beautiful, funny and positive—escapes that you could just get into and laugh through. That was really important to me. I felt like good could triumph over evil.” We hope that this compilation will extend Tom’s critically important, uplifiting and ground-breaking work to new audiences who have never had the privilege or pure pleasure of witnessing these exhilarating videos.
The quintessential New York underground collection of film/video artiste, Tom Rubnitz. In this compilation Rubnitz takes a bite out of the Big Apple and spits it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color.
“Inimitable and ineffable, Tom Rubnitz’s glitter-dusted videos distill the sensibility of a generation of TV babies whose venue of choice was the Pyramid Club rather than the Whitney Museum.”
—Village Voice
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Produced by Tom Rubnitz in collaboration with Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp, The Mother Show is a tribute to mothers everywhere, starring Frieda, the “living” doll. Frieda asks her mother a series of…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: LGBTQ
Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Feminism, Humor, Media Analysis, Performance, Television, Self-Reflexive Video, Mental Landscape
Having a party and in a fix for a dessert? The “Lady” Bunny has just the recipe: combine a doughnut, Cherry 7-Up, jelly, strawberries, and whipped topping. This title is only available on Tom…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: LGBTQ, Television
Based on a tale by Charles Perrault, Tom Rubnitz's The Fairies comes complete with frogs, princes, kind fairies, and evil stepsisters—all costumed à la Rubnitz. Featuring Sister Dimension as the…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Dance, LGBTQ, Literature
Rubnitz’s tape celebrates and documents an early installment of the “storywig-in,” shot nearly a decade before the feature-length documentary. Presenting the festival during its Tompkins Square Park…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: LGBTQ
A short, hilarious cooking mantra, featuring Sister Dimension, The "Lady" Bunny, RuPaul, David Dalrymple, Lahoma Van Zandt and Maria Ayala. "Where's the pickle? That's the surprise!" This title is…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Camp, LGBTQ, Television