Viet Vet
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Subversive and strange stories from a Vietnam veteran.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Subversive and strange stories from a Vietnam veteran.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Through narration over still photographs, this tape pays tribute to the 40,000 Nicaraguans who gave their lives in the revolution against the Samoza dictatorship. The video was provided by the The Instituto de Cine Nicaraguense in celebration of the first Christmas in 45 years free from the Samoza dynasty.
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0:24 Title: Chris Bliss. A Concert For Your Eyes. Performing “The Rock” from “Quadrophenia” by The Who. 0:55 Juggling performance with image heavily processed set to “The Rock.” Briefly cuts out in the middle. 7:45 End credits.
0:00 A band performs several songs onstage, including a cover of “Guilty” by Randy Newman. TERRIBLE image and sound quality.
Compilation tape. The first twelve minutes are related to Anda Korsts’ Artaud video project. The last ten minutes are projects done by Megan Williams and Wendy Appel.
0:00 An elderly Lithuanian woman is interviewed while working in on a factory line sorting defective machine parts. She describes her pleasure in decorating her workstation with flowers. She reads some of the German philosophical quotations about loneliness and death (which make her giggle) that she keeps at her station to exercise her mind. She is very friendly and is disappointed when the interview is done so quickly. (B&W) 6:35 Black. 6:39 This material was taped over for the Lithuanian […]
Anda Korsts and Mark Fausner sit down in front of the camera for a video letter to Barbara London, the video and media curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. London had requested information on the role of Videopolis in Chicago’s video development for an upcoming exhibition on Chicago video.