Woodstock Tonight
A cable variety show featuring conversations, comedy skits, and musical performances, followed by experimentation with video effects.
A cable variety show featuring conversations, comedy skits, and musical performances, followed by experimentation with video effects.
A portrait of an elderly folk artist, Mrs. Reynolds who runs an arts and crafts store out of her garage.
A conversation with Woodstock-based lawyer, land developer, and activist Jerry Wapner.
A slideshow of old photographs of people, scored by Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow in Curved Air” and by ambient conversation. The slideshow is briefly interrupted by an extreme close-up showing the inside the videomaker’s mouth and one showing his nipple.
A compilation of video synthesizer works and documentary footage, including a reading by poet Ed Sanders, produced at the Artists TV Lab.
A tour of a farm in Woodstock, NY. Some footage of a school board election meeting.
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 […]
Reporter Isaac Abrams interviews Magic Markie, a Woodstock DJ who had just set a record for the longest continuous radio broadcast. Abrams then goofs around in a supermarket.