In his body of moving image work that spans the mid-1980s to the present, Robert Beck/ Buck merges cinematic, televisual, and visual art aesthetics and strategies to singular effect, paying careful attention to the viewer's experience of his art. From his conceptual cable access television series of the 1980s through his activist works, "alternative" music videos and found-footage pieces, Beck/Buck's privileging of unexpected interpretations is the heritage of an eclectic list of influences, including Marcel Duchamp and Cady Noland, Robert Bresson and George Romero, film theorist Carol Clover and novelist Cormac McCarthy, the true-crime genre, the teachings of Jacques Lacan, and forensic science.
1986, 8:16 min, color, sound
1986, 504 min, color, sound
NASA Footage Re-scan
1985, 28 min, color, sound
In Answer to A-R-T
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Exploding Head
1985, 28 min, color, sound
My Face
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Money
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Exploding Television
1985, 28 min, color, sound
EXIT
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Mirror
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Time
1985, 28 min, color, sound
STOP
1985, 28 min, color, sound
August (E/PPF)
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Eye ( I )
1985, 28 min, color, sound
ABCs
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Foil
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Commercials
1985, 28 min, color, sound
Commodity Loop ("Imagine")
1985, 28 min, color, sound
"I Dreamed Another Man Dreamed Me"
1986, 28 min, color, sound
TV Architecture
1986, 28 min, color, sound
1987, 6 min, color, sound
1990, 9 min, color, sound
1994, 7 min, color, sound
1995, 11 min, color, sound
1998, 101 min, color, sound
1998, 12:00 min, color, sound
1998, 4 min, color, sound
1999, 3:30 min, b&w, sound
2001, 11:00 min, color, sound
2001, 6:00 min, color, stereo sound
2016, 24:26 min, color, sound
2018, 11:54 min, color, sound, HD video
2022, 7:09 min, Color, Stereo, HD video