A New Age? A new image – Video!!! Imaginings to accompany music... performance on an electronic stage... a new synthesis beyond the reach of older media. – Will it play on public television? Yes, says ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER, the first video magazine to be broadcasted nationally on American public television, as does the Kitchen’S ENTERTAINMENT. Our video anthology exhibits a range of options and national styles. The PERFIDIOUS CHARMS of Italian parodic dramas and the sly contemplative glimpses of French VIDEO POSTCARDS from Rome, Algiers, Lisbon and Cairo are creations of this New Age. THE CANADIAN BRASS VIDEO SHOW frivolously updates the classics and LUMINARE gives us a short look into what can be done now with the computer. THE FLOOD is a full-scale Dutch imaginative realization of Stravinsky’s television opera based on Genesis and old mystery plays. NECROS: AN AFTERMATH challenges us to think about the application of the new technology to the most serious of our traditional concerns...
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