From: Stephen Morgan (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Aug 13 2010 - 16:29:51 PDT
Oh, and let's not forget Chris Marker's television work. The Owl's Legacy
(L'Héritage de la chouette, 1989).
S.
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Stephen Morgan
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> The deeply neglected Australian artist/filmmaker Tim Burns (not the
> Tasmanian painter, or the actor who was in Mad Max, or the hundreds of other
> creative types whom share that name), was quite interested in experimental
> television, and had a US cable television show in the early '90s called 'The
> Operators' (about out of work call centre operators) which was apparently
> recorded live and with which audiences at home could interact by ringing the
> characters.
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> After he returned to Australia, he did a few things on community television
> in Perth, and attempted to set up a similar live/interactive show (which he
> eventually achieved as a one-off in 2001) and faced a bunch of other
> problems after receiving initial funding from the Australian Film Commission
> to do a show in Melbourne.
>
> More details of his television stuff here:
> http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue65/7735
>
> A general intro to his life/work here:
> http://www.urbandingogallery.com.au/showArtist_Tim-Burns_en.html
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> Steve
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> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Mads Mikkelsen <email suppressed>wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> I am working on a series on avantgarde / "auteur" television for a
>> documentary film festival in November:
>>
>> The idea is to present programmes made for television (i.e. "inside the
>> system") by creative/critical minds in various genres within the broad
>> category of "non-fiction". Some key names would be Adam Curtis,
>> Godard/Miéville, Ian Breakwell, Glenn O' Brien, Jaime Davidovich, Robert
>> Gardner, et al.
>>
>> Any further suggestions are greatly appreciated - especially international
>> programmes from beyond the US / UK, as restricted archival access and
>> language barriers makes international research difficult.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Mads
>>
>>
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