AFI Frames the Field: The National Video Festival
Afterimage, Oct. 1981, v. 9, no. 3, pp. 4-5
This article is a review of the National Video Festival; a gala event hosted by the AFI. In the midst of the crisis of Reaganism, throwing the future of NEA grants into doubt, the largest festival of its kind featured 50 hours of screenings from artists' videos to sports broadcasting for 500 guests. Furlong describes the bureaucratic history of the festival, beginning in 1979 with the Sony Corporation approaching the AFI, to host a video event resulting in a donation of $300,000. The unlikely combination of industry, artists and intellectuals resulted in panel discussion between participants who shared little common ground, politically, financially, and technically. Screenings of independent work that was suitable for broadcast showed a wide breadth of possibilities for video.
ITEM 1981.038 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Dan Sandin
Steina Vasulka
Stephen Beck
Savage/Love – Shirley Clarke
Joe Chalken
I Don't Matter, I Don't Care – Michael Marton
Some of These Stories Are True – Peter Adair
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – Robert Ashley
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – Ashley Sanborn
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – John Sanborn
Brian Eno
Kennedy/Olympic – Nam June Paik
Second Edition – Downtown Community Television
Top Value Television
Optic Nerve
Global Village
Media Bus
Kitchen
Videopolis
New Orleans Video Access Center
University Community Video (Minneapolis)
Carol Brandenberg
Jaime Davidovitch
Stan Hankin
Lillian Jiminez
Douglas Davis
Barbara London
Frank Marrero
Ontogenesis – Janice Tanaka
The Ruling Classroom – Peter Bull
The Ruling Classroom – Alex Gibney
Highlights from the New Directors' Film Festival – Thomas Musca
The Buck Killers – Paul Meyers