Re: [Frameworks] Avantgarde / "auteur" television - ?

From: Gawthrop, Rob (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 09:34:52 PDT


In the first years of BBC2 there were a number of programmes that presented experimental work (but not necessarily exeperimetal TV/film) I have a memory (I think) of Charlotte Moorman performing and also the early improv group Iskra1903.... Does anyone knows what these programmes were and if any recordings exist?

Thanks

Rob

On 15/08/2010 23:03, "Stuart Heaney" <email suppressed> wrote:

If you're interested in British experimental works for TV (and nobody else has mentioned this already...), you should check out Videospace, made by John "Hoppy" Hopkins in 1970 with the assistance of the BBC.

Hoppy is better known as a counterculture organiser of the 60s, but was also photographer and early taker up of the creative possibilities of video. Videospace was apparently inspired by experiments that had been going on at KQED TV station in San Francisco. The beeb let a bunch of freaks take control of the studio and control room to see what would happen...

It was screened in a retrospective at the Lux in London in 2005. They might have access to a Beta SP intermediate (The original recording is on 2" Quad, I think). Otherwise Hoppy can be contacted via his studio Fantasy Factory.

Good luck with it.
Stuart

--- On Sun, 15/8/10, Jack Sargeant <email suppressed> wrote:

From: Jack Sargeant <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avantgarde / "auteur" television - ?
To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed>
Date: Sunday, 15 August, 2010, 22:23

has anybody mentioned GUMBY - especially the erly episodes - quite
incredible really

jack

On 16 Aug 2010, at 00:10, Madison Brookshire wrote:

> Richard Serra made two pieces specifically for television. The first
> is made with Carlota Schoolma and is called "Television Delivers
> People" (1973); the second was made with Nancy Holt and is called
> "Boomerang" (1974).
>
> Boomerang is a masterpiece; Television Delivers People can be seen
> here: http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=23036
>
> Madison Brookshire
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:59 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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