VIDEO/VIDEO: If this event was a dry run for PAY-TV, one must view the tapes as any interested subcriber would.
Fuse, Nov. 1981, v. 5, no. 8 & 9, pp. 266-270
This article focuses on the event Video/Video, a series of 26 videotapes that were packaged as part of a PAY-TV license application and were screened as part of the Toronto Festival of Festivals Trade Forum. This article presents short reviews of all of the tapes included in the series, from the point of view of an interested subscriber for the proposed PAY-TV channel.
ITEM 1981.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Electronic Opera No. 1 – Nam Jun Paik
Sacrificial Burnings – Nancy Nicol
Michelle On The Day Of Surgery – Norman Cohn
Crime Time Comix Presents: Steel And Flesh – Eric Metcalfe and Dana Atchley
Gloria – Lisa Steele
Transvideo – Tom Sherman
East on the 401 – Tom Sherman
Love Tapes – Wendy Clarke
Split – Ardele Lister
Weak Bullet – Tony Orsler
Videage – Randy and Bernicci
Get Ready To March – Chip Lord
Delicate Issue – Kate Craig
Ma Vie C'est Pour Le Restant De Mes Jours – Robert Morin and Lorraine Defour
The Breakfast Table – Anita Thacher
Peter George – Kim Tomczak
Dogmachine – Elizabeth Chitty
Dangling By Their Mouths – Colin Campbell
Casting Call – Susan Britton
Virtuality – Marien Lewis
Test Tube – General Idea
Ontogenesis – Janice Tan aka
And Now The Truth – Vera Frenkel
I Bet You Ain't Seen Noth'n Like This Before – Rodney Werden