Dismything Objectivity: Buffalo's Video Festival of New Journalism
The Independent, June 1990, pp. 12-15
This article presents an overview of the Video Witnesses: Festival of New Journalism, which showcased recent videotapes covering news from alternative, subversive, or activist perspectives, eschewing the journalistic fiction of objectivity in favour of explicit points of view.
ITEM 1990.012 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Showdown in Atlanta – Ira Manhoff
Making News/Making History: Live from Tiananmen Square – Shu Lea Cheang
Many Faces of Paper – Sande Smith, Bryn Clark and David Riker
Transfer Stations – Renew Productions
Slender Wooden Crosses: The War Continues in Nicaragua – Rhonda Collins and Paul Lundhal
Dead from the Effects – Gina Latinovich
The World is Sick (sic) – John Greyson
Black Celebration – Tony Cokes