Videofreex!

So should have posted about this one along time ago

http://videofreexfilm.com/
https://vimeo.com/user782050

“Here Come the Videofreex!”is a documentary in progress which tells the story of the most radical video collective of the 1960’s and 70’s. It is the quirky tale of ten people’s optimism and creativity, and their vision of what television could have become at a time when the three big networks ruled the TV airwaves.

The Martian Report

"In 1976, Jim Neidhardt put one of the first Sony Portapaks in a backpack and used a telephoto lens. Equipped with a radiomike, Howard Rheingold roamed the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area, posing as Howard K. Martian, extraterrestrial anthropologist."


Thanks to Humanoidity for uploading this







"Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a critic and writer; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rheingold"

Radical Software 1970-74

here's a great video from art21's channel

Activist Video

here is an amazing resource via the website of The Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications and Computation. The page is a collection of links and information relating to activist video mostly based in Chicago and other related areas of video art.

taken from the page on activist video;

"Once upon a time....

People arose wielding half inch video cameras
with pack recorders strapped to their sides...

They sought to document unpublished truths...

They created art...

They wanted us to open our eyes...

These sites below tell their story - enjoy! "

top picks include links to the video magazine Radical Software  and link to fantastic (and oft visited by me) vasulka archive. Here is the front cover of the aptly named half inch video guide the Spaghetti City Video Manual