Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “In the Course of Time” by Jac Rubenstein and Dan Andries, “Faces” by Dino Malcolm, “Circus Magic” by an uncredited filmmaker, “The Laws of Physics” by Dick Schaefer, and “No Gasoline” by Dino Malcolm.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “TV” by Robert Medich, “George Talking Straight” by Jean de Segonzac and Marian Marzynski, and “Between Dots” by Arturo Cubacub.
Image Union episode featuring “I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning” by Michael Carlin. Black and white film that depicts the grim consequences of going on a diet and giving up smoking at the same time.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. “Cause I’ve Already Been To Hell” by Marianne Hjertstrand and Birgitta Karlstrom. This film focuses on the difficulty Vietnam veterans have had dealing with the psychological impact of their tour of duty. The tape is structured mainly around footage of a roomful of veterans discussing their experiences with each other, cutting to other interviews with veterans at times, or having them narrate the stories behind gruesome war photographs. It was filmed in New York in May 1981.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring music videos. Songs include “PRL 8-53,” “Vasectomy,” and “How It’s Done” by Phil ‘N’ the Blanks, “Video Child” by The Almighty Crabbes, “Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling” by The Suburbs, “Language is a Virus” by Laurie Anderson, “and “Television Delivers People” by Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman. “Television Delivers People” is not a music video, per se, but a text-based manifesto.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring work by Jeff Lint and the Chicago Filmmakers. Segments include “Duck,” “Imperialist Overture,” “Flowchart,” and “Defense for Atomic Attack.”
Episode of Image Union featuring the work “Pandemonium” by Frank Garvey. Color video. An eerie experimental short set in the decaying industrial ruins of Chicago.
This episode of Image Union features “Mark Naftalin’s Blue Monday Party” by Videotunes. Mark Naftalin (piano) and his band perform a blues concert. John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Tucker, and Frances Clay are guest stars.