A forum for the attendees to reminisce on this golden era of activity, reflect on their (and others’) accomplishments, and remember those members of the guerrilla TV movement who are no longer with us. Recording on Sunday, April 21 at 9:30AM as part of the Guerrilla Television Symposium at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center.
00:01Copy video clip URL Media Burn’s Sara Chapman delivers introductory remarks. She remembers Louise Ledeen/Etra, of Chicago’s Electronic Visualization Lab and elsewhere.
02:11Copy video clip URL Gene Fredericks speaks about Ledeen/Etra and her collaborator and husband Bill Etra.
02:58Copy video clip URL Julie Gustafson remembers John Reilly, co-founder of Global Village and Gustafson’s longtime production partner.
03:34Copy video clip URL Nick DeMartino remembers Grady Watts, his collaborator at the Washington Community Video Center.
04:45Copy video clip URL Eddie Becker remembers Roberto Fienza at the Federal City College and Washington Community Video Center.
05:11Copy video clip URL Tracy Fitz remembers members of Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (L.O.V.E., now known as LoveTapesCollective) Betty Brown, Delia Davis, Doris/Blue London.
06:05Copy video clip URL Davidson Gigliotti remembers Ira Schneider, one of the founders of Radical Software and the editor of the book Video Art: An Anthology.
08:08Copy video clip URL Tom Poole remembers Mable Haddock, founding president and first CEO of the Black National Programming Consortium for PBS, Michelle Materre of Creatively Speaking Films, Pearl Bowser, author, scholar, director, and curator for organizations such as Third World Newsreel, and Miguel Algarín, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.
11:10Copy video clip URL Tom Weinberg remembers Nancy Cain of the Videofreex and Chicago-based videomaker and journalist Scott Jacobs.
13:30Copy video clip URL Carol Brandenburg remembers David Loxton, a producer for WNET, as well as artist Nam June Paik.
15:43Copy video clip URL Weinberg speaks about Loxton.
16:08Copy video clip URL Tom Colley of the School of the Art Institute’s Video Data Bank remembers artist and activist Dara Greenwald.
17:20Copy video clip URL Dan Sandin remembers artists Phil Morton, Jim Wiseman, Bill Etra, Steve Rutt, and Woody Vasulka, and Gene Youngblood, author of Expanded Cinema.
19:10Copy video clip URL DeeDee Halleck remembers Jesse Maple, videomaker and author of How to Become a Union Camera Woman, videomaker and archivist Michael Cousins.
23:24Copy video clip URL Susan Milano remembers videomaker and curator Shridar Bhapat.
24:13Copy video clip URL Halleck speaks about Bhapat and video artist Shigeko Kubota.
24:43Copy video clip URL Barbara Sykes remembers artists Barbara Latham, Christine Tamblyn, Arturo Kuo, and Lyn Blumenthal.
25:12Copy video clip URL DeMartino remembers videomakers Joel Gold and Wendy Appel/Apple. Gigliotti adds that Gold was an excellent camera operator, comparing him to Bernardo Bertolucci.
26:15Copy video clip URL Gordon Quinn remembers Jerry Blumenthal, and relates a story about the difficulties of editing early videotape, and Woody Wickham of the Macarthur Foundation.
27:25Copy video clip URL Joan Logue remembers Shigeko Kubota.
27:57Copy video clip URL Gigliotti remembers David Cort and Chuck Kennedy of the Videofreex.
28:55Copy video clip URL Skip Blumberg remembers videomakers Andy Mann, Jody Sibert, and Juan Downey, and John Godfrey from the TV Lab, as well as Shirley Clarke and Ant Farm’s Doug Michels.
29:55Copy video clip URL Ariel Dougherty remembers Roger Larson, Lynn Hofer, and Jaime Barrios of the Young Filmmakers Foundation.
30:30Copy video clip URL Deirdre Boyle shares a story about David Cort teaching her “don’t think that you have to work in somebody else’s system. You’ve gotta build your own system from the ground up, and that’s what will allow you to make your own work.” She remembers Deanna Camille.
32:30Copy video clip URL Ron McCoy remembers colleagues working in video in Minnesota, including Melisande Charles and Greg Pratt.
34:37Copy video clip URL Sara Chapman returns to deliver brief concluding remarks.
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