AFI Frames the Field: The National Video Festival
Afterimage, Oct. 1981, v. 9, no. 3, pp. 4-5
This article is a review of the National Video Festival; a gala event hosted by the AFI. In the midst of the crisis of Reaganism, throwing the future of NEA grants into doubt, the largest festival of its kind featured 50 hours of screenings from artists' videos to sports broadcasting for 500 guests. Furlong describes the bureaucratic history of the festival, beginning in 1979 with the Sony Corporation approaching the AFI, to host a video event resulting in a donation of $300,000. The unlikely combination of industry, artists and intellectuals resulted in panel discussion between participants who shared little common ground, politically, financially, and technically. Screenings of independent work that was suitable for broadcast showed a wide breadth of possibilities for video.
ITEM 1981.038 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Savage/Love – Dan Sandin
I Don't Matter, I Don't Care – Steina Vasulka
Some of These Stories Are True – Stephen Beck
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – Shirley Clarke
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – Joe Chalken
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons – Michael Marton
Kennedy/Olympic – Peter Adair
Second Edition – Robert Ashley
Ontogenesis – Ashley Sanborn
The Ruling Classroom – John Sanborn
The Ruling Classroom – Brian Eno
Highlights from the New Directors' Film Festival – Nam June Paik
The Buck Killers – Downtown Community Television
Top Value Television
Optic Nerve
Global Village
Media Bus
Kitchen
Videopolis
New Orleans Video Access Center
University Community Video (Minneapolis)
Carol Brandenberg
Jaime Davidovitch
Stan Hankin
Lillian Jiminez
Douglas Davis
Barbara London
Frank Marrero
Janice Tanaka
Peter Bull
Alex Gibney
Thomas Musca
Paul Meyers