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  Golden Anniversary of Guerrilla Television!

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  Video art and video documentary began in the mid-1960s, but the first shots of the TV/Video revolution can be traced back to 1972. The summer of 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of TVTV and the Guerrilla Television movement. It was the start of a radical, exciting new form of documentary that critiqued and questioned mainstream television. Seen by a small number of viewers all over America, it invented new ways to make television and changed what television could look like. […]

• People’s Wall

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  Peoples Wall’ is a 22-minute documentary about the mural ‘Our History is No Mystery,’ which was created in 1976. It was on the wall of John Adams Community College at Masonic and Hayes in San Francisco, CA. After continuing defacement–some of which was documented in the film–the mural was redesigned and repainted.

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  [PEOPLES WALL – MASTER FOR LAVL]

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  Nude/Etude

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  [Peer Group Pressure – Art 1980 Footage]

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  00:05 The interviewer speaks with people at Art 1980 (inaudible) while the camera films art and attendees. 01:06 An elderly woman speaks about the show and shares the advice that her brother – a commercial artist – gave her about purchasing paintings.  02:40 The interviewer speaks to a woman about the show and about her opinions on contemporary art.  05:26 Interviews outside the exhibit with a group serving lemonade. They’re wearing t-shirts that read “Artists Must Make a Stand.” The […]

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  [Peer Group Pressure – Art 1980 Chicago – 1st Rough Edit]

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  A documentary about the art fair Art 1980, held in May 1980 at the Navy Pier in Chicago.

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  Crip-Trips

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  Brief portraits of disabled individuals living independently. They discuss their everyday lives and the mistaken assumptions that able-bodied people make about how they live.

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  [HSA Strike Dub 6]

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