NEWS!
MoMA “Signals: How Video Changed the World”
11-gallery exhibition includes Skip Blumberg, Videofreex, TVTV, Ant Farm, Nam June Paik, “Hole in Space.”
thru July 8, 2023
June 10 5pm Videofreex Artist Talk & Tour
90-minute first-person account by Videofreex Davidson Gigliotti & Skip Blumberg as we circumnavigate the exhibition, stopping at more than a dozen video works that we had something to do with.
UNOFFICIAL RECEPTION! Sunday 5 March 4 – 8pm 6pm short program Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery 537 Broadway
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May 1 Monday 7pm MAYDAY 1971 RAW
screening & panel discussion
plus DC Metropolitan Police Dept’s half-hour 16mm film of the same event “The Whole World is Watching”
Firehouse Cinema for Documentary NYC
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“April Fool’s Day Paul Krassner Celebration Slideshow” (4:20)
Satirical journalist (The Realist), author (Zapped by the God of the Absurd), radical (Yippies co-founder), & standup comedian (ha ha!)
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ANNOUNCING THE NEW
Videofreex.com DIGITAL ARCHIVE 1969 – 2019!A portal for researchers, writers, reviewers, teachers, students, artists, media makers and aficionados with primary materials of the pioneer indy video production group’s first 50 years.
Free & pay-per-view streaming videos, photos, drawings, documents, blog posts, blog roll & other artwork. Lots to explore.
Excellent resource for film studies courses.
Videofreex Partnership is still going strong, with screenings, exhibitions, in-person appearances, events, and producing 21st century edits restoring and updating 1970s videos for contemporary audiences. VideofreexPirateTV.vhx.tv
For DVDs, public screenings, art/educational acquisitions, or questions: info@Videofreex.com
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Click here for new release: "Maple Tree Farm Report: Participatory Media Roots & Branches"
Thirty-page illustrated report co-authored by 18 conveners during two-day summer discussion at the Videofreex 1970s collective home, media center and pirate TV station, directed & edited by Skip Blumberg
Click here for: Lanesville TV MAPLE TREE FARM Showreel 44-minute entertaining compilation of early creative community video.
CLICK BELOW FOR Videofreex DANCE PARTY FOR A CHANGE!
Two-hour 30-song playlist by DJ Skip B. A musical manifesto made for movement and for the Movement! Classic and surprising new hot dance tracks from U.S., Fiji, Austria, Kurdistan, Germany, Japan, Jamaica, the Woodstock Festival and elsewhere, with lyrics espousing progressive social, cultural, political and personal change. THE TIME IS NOW TO WORK FOR BIG CHANGES TOWARDS THE BETTER WORLD THAT WE ALL WANT! LET’S GET MOVING! Turn the volume up loud and dance your ass off for a better future. Click for Playlist with song titles & artists.
“Jaaronimation” screened at the Scotland Animation & Puppet Festival including interview with collaborator Skip Blumberg.