Much has been written about the impact—real and imagined—of the new technology in television. The explosion of video equipment throughout the world—from the lightweight electronic cameras to the extraordinary complex of post-production facilities—has been variously seen as sounding the death knell of film, heralding a new age of visual imagery of providing the means of cheaper and more democratic programme making. These seven programmes reveal considerable diversity of style and a variety of different approaches towards the creation of electronic imagery. Each in its own way illustrates an aspect of what has become a continuing debate—“What are the implications of the Video Revolution?” Where do we stand now? Technology versus money? Tape versus life performance? Studio versus outside production? And perhaps most important of all, is high technologies set to replace thought and imagination?
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In “Haus Vaterland” you find an ensemble, that will never come together again. Old stars meet young artists. They sing and play together. And the young ones…
Haus Vaterland- A very German show (Part 3,…
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Songs by Leonard Cohen weave a magical video fantasy around the guests in a grand old hotel, in this experimental music video poem. Cohen himself plays the seedy but…
I am a hotel
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People of all kinds, together without paying heed to time, night after night. A web of mutual relationships. They are dependent on each other. Dependent in particular on…
Insomniacs
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Games, commercials, TV, classrooms, industries, hospitals, research laboratories, it is truly in all field of human activity that new images appeared recently: the so…
Pixels or the new images (part 1 of 6)
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The music video pushes the new genre beyond the limitations of simply adding illustration to a song. Combining live action, film animation, and state of the art video…
Sharkey's day
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A view of a great battle, from the men who fought it, but who saw all too little, and cared less, for its great design. An attempt to portray an epic in a minimal,…
The battle of Waterloo
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VOYAGE OF DREAMS tells the story of the Haitian boat people, about why they are leaving Haiti, their perilous voyage to the U.S., and their experience with American…
Voyage of dreams
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