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V i d e o / F i l m o g r a p h y Guggenheim Fellow, 2002 "Susan Mogul has the uncanny ability to humanize technology and use it to capture extremely telling and often intimate insights into the world of her subjects. Her technique is not unlike that of a strong writer with an extremely sophisticated narrative style, alternating voices from first to third person. A truly unusual and innovative voice." • DRIVING MEN (2008,68 min.) “ …a captivating 68 minute saga…The often funny video tackles sex, desire, loss, family and the twisted threads of identity, as Mogul ponders being single and fifty. As with all her work, though, Driving Men is very much about a woman with a video camera.” - LA Weekly
• SING, O BARREN WOMAN (2000, 11 min.) “Giving voice to ten women who chose not to have children, Mogul’s video simultaneously offers a hilarious and poignant meditation on all manner of life choices and the necessity of living with their consequences.” Part documentary, part music video, Barren Woman, satirizes and celebrates a taboo subject - voluntary childlessness. Funded by a COLA Fellowship, a grant that honors mid-career artists.
• I STARE AT YOU AND DREAM (1997, 60 min.) "Mogul has a talent for swiftly getting you interested in people about whom you know nothing - so interested that the hour you spend with them zooms by." - Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times Tender and unflinching, four characters' struggles, wounds and romantic entanglements are gradually revealed in the context of their everyday lives. Filmed in Mogul’s Highland Park neighborhood, a predominantly Latino area of Los Angeles. Produced in association with the Independent Television Service for public television with major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• EVERYDAY ECHO STREET; A SUMMER DIARY (1993, 30 min.) "..something to cheer, at once loads of fun and the kind of intimate insider's journey through a Los Angeles neighborhood that you seldom see on television… a highly personalized film threaded by the filmmaker's self-effacing wit and candid introspection about her life as she settles into middle age."
• PROSAIC PORTRAITS, IRONIES AND OTHER INTIMACIES, (1991,46 min.) A personal and idiosyncratic diary of Mogul's eight week Eastern European journey in 1990. Prosaic Portraits anticipated Everyday Echo Street in its quest for home. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Santa Monica Museum’s “Artist’s Projects Series.” Presented at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1991. • THE LAST JEW IN AMERICA, (1984, 22 min.) "Susan Mogul in ‘The Last Jew in America’ is giving Barbra Streisand - appearingin Yentl - some competition." — L.A. Weekly Part professor, part stand-up comic, Mogul gives a "history lesson" on the conflicts, contradictions, and often resulting absurdities of Jewish American assimilation.
• DEAR DENNIS, (4 min.,1988) A videoletter to Dennis Hopper inspired by the fact that both Mogul and Hopper have the same dentist.
• TAKE OFF, (1974, 10 min.) "In ‘Take Off’ Mogul has struck a fine balance between the tellable and the untellable. Her most remarkable action, the use of her vibrator "in public" borders on being taboo (yet) is so ridiculous that ultimately "women's polite language" is mocked as incisively as is Vito Acconci." - Afterimage "As bad as bad girl art today with the druggy stream of consciousness narrative that was so popular in post hippy post Vietnam art.” - Artweek
• DRESSING UP, (1973, 7 min.) "(Dressing Up is one of) Susan Mogul's very funny video stories, in which she proceeds from disrobed to robed, reminiscing about the history of each item of clothing." - Lucy Lippard, MS.Magazine
ADDITIONAL WORKS (1980 – 2002) • SWEET TALKIN GUY ( 2002, 2 min.)A humorous autobiographical music video composed from footage of men from Mogul’s video archive. Commissioned by LA Freewaves for closing night at an Los Angeles karaoke bar in Koreatown, October 2002. • PIECE OF WORK (2001, 6 min.) Ken Mate, a 56 year old solipsistic individual, recites Finnegan's Wake while doing sit-ups, talks about talking, and kvetches when a neighbor "steals" the first tomato from his hand-cultivated garden. Drawn from the inside out, this portrait describes who Ken is rather than describing what he does. Commissioned by and presented at the Second Annual Silver Lake Film Festival, 2001.• HOME SAFE HOME (1997, 6 min.) Ensconced in her urban Los Angeles bed, Mogul recounts growing up "safe" on suburban Long Island. Commissioned by and co-produced with KCET, Los Angeles PBS station, for their daily magazine program Life and Times. "These images steadfastly resist our habitual - and dangerously comforting - sentimentalization of childhood. And for this, for her insistence upon these children's idiosyncratic responses (black humor, desperate rage, deadpan acceptance) to the often brute facts of their existence, Mogul is to be commended." - Los Angeles Times Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Inter- Arts Program. "Mogul's success is due to her ability to combine message, mirth and myth."
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