Movies: Ilene Segalove

In a series of wistful vignettes, Segalove looks at how her childhood vision of the future holds up (or doesn't) in adulthood. Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....

The end of the world does not have to be all doom and gloom. Hildegarde Duane finds the humorous side of a nuclear meltdown in this video where two people embrace in the knowledge of certain death. What better way to spend the final minute before the...

Segalove re-enacts the trials and travails of her desperate, hormonal, pubescent years with actors dancing their way through what looks like a techni-color version of the Cleaver’s backyard. She plays herself, getting questionable advice from girlfri...

Addressing the camera, Segalove confesses to plagarizing her 5th grade report, The Story of Coal....

The Riot Tapes (1984) offers a sharp and ironic take on Segalove’s college years during the Vietnam War protests. Using the aesthetics of 1980s television, Segalove reenacts the clichés of 1960s campus life—sex, drugs, politics, and love—with satiric...

In 2012, Ilene Segalove talks to herself from 1972....