News with a View: Video Witnesses Festival of New Journalism
Afterimage, May 1991, v. 18, no. 10, pp. 3-4
A discussion of the work shown at the Video Witnesses Festival of New Journalism at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY. The festival featured videos by over 100 independent video producers and media activists from around the world.The author discusses the range of strategies of 'witnessing' that the videos undertook: "exposing concealed information, offering alternative perspectives, playing an agitprop role in different political communities, representing collective struggles and subversive acts, self-presenting minority cultures, and examining the construction of 'the truth' in the mass media.
ITEM 1991.055 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Voices of Palestine – Maggi Carter
They Saw their Blood Flow – Maggi Carter
Testimonies from El Salvador – Rosemary Bodolay
Testimonies from El Salvador – Mary Giovognoli
Framing the Panthers in Black and White – Annie Goldson
Framing the Panthers in Black and White
Studio of the Streets – Chris Bratton
Studio of the Streets – Tony Conrad
Cover-up – Cathleen Steffan
Invasion of Panama – Barbara Trent
Do You All Know How to Play Dixie? – Barbara Trent
Do You All Know How to Play Dixie? – Lisa Guido
Do You All Know How to Play Dixie? – Susana Aiken
A Hard Reign's Gonna Fall – Carlos Aparicio
War in Progress – Dean Lance
The Q.C. Girls – Fritz Bacher
Making Waves: Popular Video in Bolivia – MacTown Strip
Civil Disobedience Protest at Canadea Site in N.Y. State – Karen Ranucci
Taking Back the Night – Allegany County Nonviolent Action Group
Die Yuppie Scum – Carol Leigh
Know Your Enemy – Carol Leigh
The Generation After Martial Law – Art Jones
The Green Team Video Collective