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 compilation of video synthesizer works and documentary footage, including a reading by poet Ed Sanders, produced at the Artists TV Lab.
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 […]
Footage filmed off a TV monitor as the videomakers adjust camera settings to achieve abstract visual patterns. Offscreen direction and commentary as they experiment.
An experimental work combining live footage of dancers, video effects and distortions, and abstract patterns created through video manipulations.
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.
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.” […]