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  [Artists TV Lab Sampler for NY State Council on the Arts]

  Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing

  A compilation of video synthesizer works and documentary footage, including a reading by poet Ed Sanders, produced at the Artists TV Lab.

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  [The King’s Daughters at the Shady Church Fair]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing

  00:26 An outdoor fair in a churchyard.  01:43 Videomaker Kathy Butterfield speaks with Hugh Martin, who grows his plants in a greenhouse. Customers ask Hugh about his flowers and rave to the camera about the plants.  04:05 An interview with Mrs. Martin about the church fair and about the King’s Daughters, which was founded to create brotherhood between all religions.  07:18 Conversation with two women who are members of the King’s Daughters in a nearby community. They detail the group’s […]

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  [Feedback footage]

  Pat Lehman

  Footage filmed off a TV monitor as the videomakers adjust camera settings to achieve abstract visual patterns. Offscreen direction and commentary as they experiment.

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  Decca Dance

  Pat Lehman

  An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.

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  [Image processing footage]

  Pat Lehman

  Abstract imagery created by manipulating video cameras, filming off monitors, while a band plays music. Filmed in a TV studio. People dance and make faces and goof around for the cameras, watching their images on monitors.

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  Runner, Feedback, Runner

  Pat Lehman

  00:04 Title superimposed over footage of long distance runners. Ramsey Lewis’s song “Sun Goddess” plays.   00:19 Footage of runners with image processing/visual effects.  07:28 Increasingly abstract visual effects. 11:01 End credits: “This videotape was conceived, filmed, and edited by Charles Ford. the end.” 11:18 Title card: Abstract 287. Abstract visual effects achieved through image processing and superimposition. Set to the song “Y Sharp” by Osbisa.  19:03 End credits: “This videotape was conceived, filmed, and edited by Charles Ford. the end.” […]

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  Fractal I / Fractal II

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Abstract computer animations in which complex patterns form from the gradual build-up of colorful pixels. Also known as “Fractile I” and “Fractile II.”

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  [Image Processing footage: Stairs, Worms]

  Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Pat Lehman

  Image processing experiments applying different techniques to manipulate and distort video footage.