As a former Blockbuster Video store manager and warehouse employee of " reel.com" during the epic VHS-to-DVD transition, the VHS format has always been very dear to my heart and I've often thought of "works," "artists" and "genres" that epitomized this wretched format. For generic VHS I like to think about exercise/aerobics tapes, "Barney the Dinosaur" and mainstream releases that saturated the "market" which were everywhere and haunt us in thrift store junk shelves. "Home Alone" (which I recall having seen for sale in gas stations and just about everywhere else) is the top of the heap of this for me and I'm sure there is a monstrous landfill somewhere overflowing with these horrid specimens.
In terms of "artist-made" work, *Animal Charm* <http://www.vdb.org/artists/animal-charm> made a huge body of single-channel tapes and performances derived from goodwill-harvested VHS tapes (many these are from corporate training-type videos, weird forgotten product promos etc). *Scott Stark <http://www.scottstark.com/janefonda.html>'s **More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda * <https://vimeo.com/75539914>remakes what is possibly *the* iconic VHS exercise tape. I would also second Stephen Broomer's recommendation of Christine Lucy Lattimer's 21st Century VHS work. It was fun screening *The Pool* in CROSSROADS 2012 (I think) as it allowed me to purge a VHS deck from my "personal collection," after which it was just placed outside the theater on the curb and vanished in ten minutes. Fun. Steve Polta <https://vimeo.com/75539914> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Broomer < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Christine Lucy Latimer has used VHS to make some very interesting work > dealing with the format's aesthetic character. > > The Pool comes to mind -- https://vimeo.com/32115389 > > I screened this work about three years ago and seem to remember her > entrusting me with an exhibition copy on a shiny red VHS tape. > > Stephen > > > On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Richard Ashrowan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 40 years of experimental VHS. > > We're working on a programme of shorts, aiming to celebrate the 40th > anniversary of VHS. I would love to hear some recommendations for both > early canonical and more recent works that deal in specific and contrasting > ways with the experimental possibilities of the medium. > > I do appreciate that this question is too big, for a 90m screening, and a > bit like asking if anyone knows any good experimental films... but if > anyone feels like suggesting a few starting points, it would be most > appreciated. > > Very best, > > Richard Ashrowan > Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk > www.ashrowan.com > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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