Critical Writing Index

Street Culture

by Merike Talve

Video Guide, Aug. 1984, v. 6, no. 4, pp. 4-5

This review of the video series Street Culture demonstrates the video medium as one which is most appropriate for collecting authentic images and sounds from the streets about the culture that surrounds it. The videoworks discussed in this review are seen as reflecting street life for what it is, rather than creating new situations to show how things could be, or should, be.

ITEM 1984.011 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Vancouver Canada Or They Chant Fed Up – Kim Tomczak

Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive – John Alpert and Keiko Tsuno

Secret From The Street, No Disclosure – Martha Rosler

Tokyo Fast Foods – Michael Goldberg

Split – Ardele Lister

Ear to the Ground – Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn

Gladys: A Queen in Exile – B. Levine

Pick Up Your Feet – Skip Blumberg

167 Street/Bronx 83 – Bob Harris and Rii Kanzaki

Forbidden Rebels – Rii Kanzaki

Damnation of Faust – Dara Birnbaum