The film was shot in New York, where government incentives help cover the cost — so even modest sales in video, foreign or theatrical markets assure a profit.
A modest single-channel video work by Ms. Ahtila — that could as easily be by Ms. Akerman — provides the coda to these shows.
The modest 61-minute video documentary "Afghan Stories" is a subjective response to world events by its maker, Taran Davies, an investment banker who resigned a week after Sept. 11 and left for Afghanistan a few weeks later.
Wii U Nintendo's machine has a modest range of video apps and services, as well as a really friendly and nicely designed online community called Miiverse, which lets players share content and ask for gaming advice in a safe way.
But with the ongoing transition to digital movies and television, which take up far more disk space than analog programming, the added capacity of next-generation DVDs will only mean a modest increase in video playing time.
So far, trained security personnel who are capable of monitoring a modest number of incoming video streams, do the video review.
The move by the United Talent Agency — best known as the home of comedians like Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and television producers like Dick Wolf and David Chase — amounts to a bet, albeit a modest one, that Web video is on a growth curve similar to that of cable television a generation ago.
Both songs, and their accompanying videos, received modest airplay, with "Stare at the Sun" being featured in the video game SSX 3, published through EA Sports BIG Electronic Arts, and the band found themselves playing at larger venues as the year progressed.
Ms. Batsry's current exhibition, which has been organized by Lawrence Rinder, curator of contemporary art at the Whitney, unveils "Set," a seemingly modest but ultimately consuming video installation.
The show, based on the 1994 black-and-white film directed by Kevin Smith, is set in a cartoon Leonardo, complete with an evil billionaire (voiced by Alec Baldwin) who opens a Disneyesque superstore across from the modest convenience store and video stop staffed by Dante and Randal (voiced by Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson, reprising their film roles).
