Mass Monument / Rocks
Short videos made by students in Pat Lehman’s video production classes.
Image processing footage produced by shooting off a monitor and layering and manipulating the images.
00:15 Explanation of holography. Significant distortion. 01:22 A model that illustrates the workings of a hologram. Wires demonstrate the path through which light travels within the machine. 02:51 Dr. Shaoul Ezekiel, director of the laser lab at MIT, discusses holograms. He observes that anyone can learn how to take a hologram relatively easily, and that basic equipment is not too expensive. He talks about the history of holography and its practical uses. 07:02 Ezekiel shows the workings of the hologram […]
Two interviews from a series highlighting women with careers in the arts. This tape includes interviews with Muriel Cooper, Media Director for M.I.T. Press, and Elizabeth Cook, Director of Boston’s Office of Cultural Affairs.
Two episodes of “The New American Cinema” devoted to interviews with filmmaker Shirley Clarke.
“Respect Me, Don’t Media Me” was produced in a workshop with Sisters Empowering Sisters, a program of the Girls Best Friend Foundation. The film examines the portrayal of young women in music videos and other media. It also asks the questions: “What do these kinds of portrayals mean for young women?”, “How do they affect our lives, our decisions and our relationships?” and “What can we do to change them?” See https://beyondmedia.org for more information.
This tape is a collection of short experimental video pieces shot by women in the early seventies.
Compilation tape highlighting the work of the members of the Chicago Area Videomakers Coalition. The group was formed in 1977 to formally bring together Chicago’s independent videomakers to create a higher profile and bring their work to the public. This tape was first broadcast on Channel 44 on June 18, 1977, based on a commitment from general manager Ed Morris. The production of this tape made it apparent that the most pressing need in the videomaking community was editing facilities. In 1978, aided by the visibility produced by the sampler tape, the Coalition opened the Chicago Editing Center, which provided low-cost editing facilities to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.