Decca Dance
An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.
An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.
Interviews with women about their career working in the arts, part of a series of short documentaries. This tape features interviews with Rebecca Lawrence of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Louise Tate of the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities.
Footage filmed at an outdoor festival. It includes musical performances, dances, and a hot air balloon.
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.
Footage shot for an industrial video called The Video Wheel, featuring short documentary segments about an adult softball team, a traditional Polish dance troupe, Boston’s Old North Church, and more.
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.” […]