Sydney Fillmmakers Co-op
FILMMAKERS CINEMA, ST. PETERS LANE, DARLINGHURST, 31 3237
FRIDAY AUGUST 16 to SATURDAY AUGUST 24 - NIGHTLY AT 8PM
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An expanded cinema and Video multimedia event including film, video, live performance on camera and video link, and light show. Includes video films and tapes from Alternative TV workers in England, USA, India, and Australia. Some of these tapes are in colour and this event is an historic first.
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VIDEO FLASHES
When Sony invented the portable video recorder a new media tool hit the streets. In the hands of information freaks it became the tool of a new lifestyle and its politics. Pop music, Ecology action, radical psychotherapy and politics appeared on tape. The Black Panthers seized a recorder from a travelling academic in Algeria, Gay Lib had one donated, The IRA did self documentation, and community workers started to hustle institutions for the new tool where sound and picture playback was instantaneous. See yourself on TV. The TV studio carried on your back. In London a group of media freaks with portapaks invade the David Frost show in an attempt to break down the barriers to participation in Broadcast Media. Not only did they make their own message, they also wanted it seen.
GETTING IT SCENE
Working in and with their own communities, how were they to distribute their own programming? Video viewing theatres were used but reached a limited audience. Street corner playback was successful in reaching the neighbourhood. But it was when they entered the political arena of Cable TV and the Fight for the guarantee of rights for community access that the wider community was involved. These programmes below were made by videofreaks in the USA and England for Cable and Broadcast Access. It is "The Television of the Streets, not narcotic Television", not making the two sided liberal compromises of the mass media.
TURN OFF YOUR TV AND COME WATCH (YOURSELF) ON REAL LIFE VIDEO.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 16: “RADICALSOFTWARE”
Exploring the political world-featuring Top Value TV's tape of the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami - The World's Largest TV Studio. Plus David Frostbite, live action, Triumph of the Will multimedia movie mix.
SATURDAY AUGUST 17: “INTO THE DREAM-TIME”
Exploring the world of Australia's Aborigines -
Featuring Invisible Barriers, Anasoares' political tape of Palm Island; plus Joseph EI Kouhri and Mick Glasheen's tapes and films shot in central Australia, a twin screen version of Paul Winkler's Oberhausen Award winning Dark, and a multimedia corroboree. (NB. This show is followed at midnight by Woodstock.)
SUNDAY AUGUST 18: “THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE”
Exploring the world of religious consciousness -
Featuring Top Value TV's tape of Millenium 73 - The Lord of the Universe plus Jordan Belson's Chakra in the film and a multimedia cosmic lightshow. Music and ChantiWho is Guru Mahara Ji ng.
TUESDAY AUGUST 20: "THE HUMAN BIOCOMPUTER & OTHER MACHINES”
Exploring the interface of technology and mind. Featuring computer films and video tapes from USA & Australia by the Whitney Family and Doug Richardson, plus experiments in Bio-Feedback and Kirlian Photos.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21: “THE STATE OF THE ART”
Exploring various forms of light art, including colour computer lifestyle mixes from Bush Video, Laser art from LSD Fogg and colour videographic film Fall by Scott Bartlett and Videospace 70 by John Kirk. Light projection art show spectacular.
THURSDAY AUGUST 22: "WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE COUNTER-CULTURE”
Exploring alternative lifestyles & experimental approaches to living; featuring Bush Video's NIMBIN TAPES plus Yellow TV an excerpt from Aggy Read's film on the Yellow House. Also Street Farmer, a colour tape on ecological action in London.
There will be a live performance by the White Company in a multimedia mix.
FRIDAY AUGUST 23: “THEDECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE”
The end of somebodies world - films and videotapes from mother england including Frostbite taped when yippies took over the David Frost Show; Videospace 70 taped by acid freaks let loose in the BBC; England Sprinq 73 showing squatting in London's urban wasteland; The Streets of Ulster shot in IRA communities in Belfast, Street Farmer showing ecological revolution on London Highrise developers and multimedia mixes.
SATURDAY AUGUST 24: "AMERIKAN KULTCHA”
Films and tapes from the USA featuring Top Value TV's Adland exploring the world of commercials and those who make them. Also Native Medicine about the life of the Indians and Street Gangs about New York gang culture and other tape and film.
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N.B. ADMISSION TO EACH SHOW (lasting at least 3 hours) is $2.50
