Tribute to television as servant of the public in the Cold War era. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
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There's a Devil Loose
UntitledConcrete TV, is a public access show broadcast on Channel 67 in Manhattan, New York, combining violence, sex, pornography, new video and old video in a video art collage set to music. This half hour program is produced by Ron Rocheleau, known as Concrete Ron. It goes to air on Friday nights at 1:30 AM. Episodes are thematically based on 1980s video, hearkening back to the early MTV days, in a mash-up art style.
UntitledAntiracist Fragment Cycle 4 Extract Antiracist Advertisement KKK Reportatge Unpopular Culture Mitjana Assasin The Conversation (Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez Peña) Antiracist Advertisement 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
Fuck The Corporate Media analyzes the tactics, both subtle and blatant, employed by the corporate media to control your mind. This video covers just one day in the lies of the corporate media. See for yourself how they sell us out in this startling comparison between what really happened on August 21st, 2003 in Portland, Oregon, and what they say about what happened.
UntitledThe films of Cuban director Santiago Alvarez exist as a kind of fractured mirror on the last 40 years of American history - a subversive alternate history. A film career that began only with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continued until his death in 1998. This is a compilation of his films: Now, Cerro Pelado, Hanoi Martes 13, Hasta la Victoria Siempre, L.B.J., 79 Primaveras, El Sueno del Pongo and El Tigre Saltó y Mató... Morirá... Morirá.
UntitledUnscalable walls, security cameras, deserted streets, surrounding villas and houses; architectural styles: californian gothic, imperial roman, germanic bunker, a catalogue of lonliness and persecutions
UntitledPortrait of Nam June Paik in her presentation of “Discover European Video” in the Anthology Film Archives, NYC 1991. It is the time of the first Gulf War.
A sarcastic soap-opera about the experience of the chicanos in the United States.
A compilation of the television election campaigns of United States presidential candidates.