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• Mon Wed Friday Video, 19805 Video Art

  Arts & Culture

  00:05 Tape opens on computer-generated graphics, showing a scrolling page of glyphs. The scene begins flashing colorfully, and the process repeats.  01:30 A title card shows, reading “Monday Wednesday Friday Video Club.” The card is followed by another introducing this particular video: Art as Commentary. 01:45 The film begins with an interview-style shot of a man speaking into the camera. “The act of commentary is an act of aggression,” he says… Continue reading →

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  The Independent Film and Video Distribution Center preview tape

  Roots of Video

  …ls. Talks as he carves the letter “T”; talks about the emotional appeal of carved letters, as part of their buildings, historical associations, most ready communications with the materials themselves. Talks about the pre-production that does into a job. Carver talks about how he thinks the actual carving is much more important than the designing. Designing is ancillary to carving. 5:30 “Death Row.” A film by Bruce Jackson… Continue reading →

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  American Roots Music Chicago

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, Studs Terkel

  …roads and railroads carried the new residents to Chicago along with newly developed, distinctly American forms of music. 2:52 Cut to film footage of a group of black men singing and laying down railroad track in the arid American west. Ramis describes the influence of work songs and spirituals on blues music. 3:07 Cut to archival film footage of a group of young black men singing. One is playing a banjo. Ramis: “Mass produced musical instr… Continue reading →

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  Postcard from 1st U.S. Environmental Film Festival

  Bill Stamets, Chicago

  01:46 A panel of actors and filmmakers talks about the film festival and environmental issues. The room is festooned with the banners of corporate sponsors, including Disney and TBS. One speaker points out a Paramount ad on the back of the festival program, and notes Paramount’s ties to Western Gulf oil. Despite the contradictory message, corporate sponsorship has helped environmental issues reach a huge audience:  “There’s not… Continue reading →

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  Hollywood Comes To Chicago

  Chicago

  …ing Chicago “the best place in the whole country to shoot” a movie. 6:00 Salenger attributes the success of her office — listing the impressive films that are being shot under her supervision — to the cooperation she has received from the mayor’s office, the CPD, and Governor Jim Thompson. 6:30 Governor Jim Thompson appears, speaking to the strengths of Chicago when it comes to making movies. 6:50 The film concludes with a short montage of clips…. Continue reading →

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  Happy Birthday Homemade TV (first composite)

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Performance, Roots of Video

  …tone. 00:21 Production members can be heard working on the the show. The audio is rough throughout this portion of the tape. 01:29 Cut to the intro for the program. 02:39 Cut to a shot of the editing room at Portable Channel. There are several outtakes of the producers explaining their reasons for creating content for Portable Channel. Tonight’s program is a compilation video created in celebration of Portable Channel’s first birthday… Continue reading →

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  Salt of the Earth vs Chambers

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  …self. 08:11 Tape cuts, and Jencks is in the middle of explaining that in the mining community, where almost all of the workers were Mexican, many of the men forbid their wives to go to the picket lines, and when they disobeyed, they were beaten. She explains that she and her husband were very progressive and their culture often clashed with the rest of the workers, particularly regarding gender roles. 10:30 Filmmaker Gordon Quinn asks how the fil… Continue reading →

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  Everybody’s Trance Film

  Arts & Culture, Chuck Kleinhans

  0:02 Title Screen: “Everybody’s Trance Film.” Camera opens on two men walking on a sidewalk with Chuck Kleinhans, who holds the camera. Music starts playing. Series of still images. Footage of a pool.  1:11 Paper hangs on the wall: “Trance films in general tend to resist specific interpretation. – P. Adams Sitney.” Footage of people feeding ducks at a park, people walking in a hallway, a flower bed, a tarp mov… Continue reading →

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