Image Union, episode 0424
An episode of Image Union featuring “Pass/Fail” by Roy Campanella, Jr.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “The Space Cadets” by Heather McAdams, “The Cough” by Teddy Dibble, “Duet for Tap and Galoshes” by Laurie McDonald, “City Slickers” by Rufus Butler Seder, and “Sunstone” by Ed Emshwiller.
An episode of Image Union featuring the work “One Sturdy String” by Mirko Popadic. A history of traditional Serbian music. Some footage from Popadic’s “Serbian Wedding” tape. We see the different ways Serbian Chicagoans incorporate this music into their lives, from extremely traditional performances to weddings to rock interpretations. We see footage of the Kapugi brothers playing the tamburitza. There is a lot of talk about the happiness produced by Serbian music and about the ways it combines with American music. Followed by “Studs Terkel at the Steel Mill” featuring Studs Terkel interviewing steel worker and organizer Alice Peurala.
Episode of Image Union featuring the work “Love Tapes” by Wendy Clarke. “Love Tapes” is a collection of videos from an experiment in which people were allowed to sit alone in a cubicle, only with a video camera and monitor, and talk about love for three minutes. Hundreds of people participated in this experiment, and this collection features 8 full length tapes.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring music videos. Music videos 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 “September” by Floyd Dillman.
Image Union episode featuring “Inside Spring Training” by Tom Weinberg. A look at the 1978 White Sox at preseason practice in Florida.
This episode features 9 thirty-second commercials produced for performance artists in addition to several short films. NOTE: The artists commercials are not available online. This means the timecodes are not accurate for the online version.
“Cocaine Express” is a short documentary about the experiences of photographer Henry Herr Gill and writer Rick Soll, journalists for the Chicago Sun Times. They describe the details and enormous scale of the underground drug trade between the United States and nations in South America. The footage is mostly black and white photographic stills with Gill and Soll narrating. They trace their steps through different South and Central American towns, and talk about various characters and situations they encountered along the way.