Joly, so awesome. I wish this stuff was available online.
Jay
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> Videofreex
> Curated by Dara Greenwald
> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
> 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
>
> Light Industry presents a survey of work by seminal guerrilla
> television outfit Videofreex, featuring a number of newly restored
> tapes. The screening will be introduced by Dara Greenwald, who
> assisted with the acquisition and preservation of this collection by
> Video Data Bank.
>
> ---
>
> Videofreex, one of the first video collectives, was founded in 1969 by
> David Cort, Curtis Ratcliff and Parry Teasdale, after David and Parry
> met each other, video cameras in hand, at the Woodstock Music
> Festival. Working out of a loft in lower Manhattan, the group's first
> major project was producing a live and tape TV presentation for the
> CBS network, The Now Show, for which they traveled the country,
> interviewing countercultural figures such as Abbie Hoffman and Black
> Panther leader Fred Hampton.
>
> The group soon grew to ten full-time members--including Chuck Kennedy,
> Nancy Cain, Skip Blumberg, Davidson Gigliotti, Carol Vontobel, Bart
> Friedman and Ann Woodward--and produced tapes, installations and
> multimedia events. The Videofreex trained hundreds of makers in this
> brand new medium though the group's Media Bus project.
>
> In 1971 the Freex moved to a 17-room, former boarding house called
> Maple Tree Farm in Lanesville, NY, operating one of the earliest media
> centers. Their innovative programming ranged from artists' tapes and
> performances to behind-the-scenes coverage of national politics and
> alternative culture. They also covered their Catskill Mountain hamlet,
> and in early 1972 they launched the first pirate TV station,
> Lanesville TV. An exuberant experiment with two-way, interactive
> broadcasting, it used live phone-ins and stretched cameras to the
> highway, transmitting whatever the active minds of the Freex coupled
> with their early video gear could share with their rural viewers.
>
> During the decade that the Freex were together, this pioneer video
> group amassed an archive of 1,500+ raw tapes and edits.
>
> - Video Data Bank
>
> Titles to be screened include, among others:
>
> Fred Hampton – Black Panthers, Chicago, 1969
> Fred Hampton - Chant and Demonstration, 1970
> Women’s Lib Demonstration NYC, 1970
> Davidson’s Jail Tape, 1971
> Interview in the Street II, 1971
> Trashing and Gassing in Miami, Republican Convention, 1972
> Lanesville Overview I, 1972
> Woodstock ’69, Tape #24, 1969
> Chicago Travelogue: The Weatherman, 1969
> Mayday Realtime, 1971
>
> Followed by a discussion with Greenwald and original members of Videofreex.
>
> Tickets - $7, available at door.
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