Behind the scenes of the 1992 presidential campaigns
As primary season gets into full swing, here’s a behind the scenes look from 1992 at how campaigns craft their appearance for TV.
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Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
Today, we bring you clips from a fascinating and beautiful documentary being produced in Chicago by On Look Films. Like Media Burn, it is motivated by an effort to preserve and archive contemporary cultural reality that is in danger of being extinct. Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo is an engaged, objective cinéma vérité documentary about the complex relationship between modernity and tradition in Cairo. The story develops as the ancient oral tradition of the adhan, the Muslim call […]
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More Treasures from the Archives
Once again, here are more rare materials from the archive! These materials cover projects from the last fifty years of independent TV and portable video, many available on Media Burn’s website. First we have a flyer from Ant Farm regarding their plans to bury a time capsule in 1975 to be dug up in 2000. However, this was no ordinary time capsule—Ant Farm buried a station wagon filled with items representing the average person’s values & culture. The car was […]
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Ant Farm’s Media Burn, July 4, 1975
Thirty six years ago this Fourth of July, Ant Farm staged the Media Burn event in San Francisco. In addition to crashing a Cadillac through a wall of burning televisions, it featured a special appearance by the “Artist President” (Doug Hall), who put media monopolies and their effect on all of us in perspective. We think it probably has even more relevance today. See if you agree. [Courtesy, Ant Farm and Chip Lord] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieVwRqUxVI8]
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More treasures from the archive
Media Burn’s paper document collection has been sorted and ready for digitization. These records roughly encompass the last fifty years of independent TV and portable video, most of it shot & edited in Chicago. These materials cover projects previously shown on television (and available to watch on Media Burn’s website), but also include projects previously unseen on television, as well as historical materials relating to the rise of independent television and even some public television channels. This project was supported […]
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Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)
We remember Gil Scott-Heron with Skip Blumberg’s excellent interview from The 90’s. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvWt29OG0s]
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Media Burn at eFlux Tuesday May 31
Media Burn will be in New York next Tuesday for a screening at eFlux. The program will highlight an eclectic mix from the archive, including work by the Videofreex, Juan Downey, and TVTV–George Lois, a UFO sighting, and hallucinations in the jungle, all in one night! Tom Weinberg will introduce the screening, and there will be some surprise guests in the audience. Join us for this fun reunion! Tuesday, May 31 7pm, free admission e-flux Gallery 41 Essex Street NYC