Critical Writing Index

VIDEO/VIDEO: If this event was a dry run for PAY-TV, one must view the tapes as any interested subcriber would.

by Clive Robertson

Fuse, Nov. 1981, v. 5, no. 8 & 9, pp. 266-270

This article focuses on the event Video/Video, a series of 26 videotapes that were packaged as part of a PAY-TV license application and were screened as part of the Toronto Festival of Festivals Trade Forum. This article presents short reviews of all of the tapes included in the series, from the point of view of an interested subscriber for the proposed PAY-TV channel.

ITEM 1981.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Electronic Opera No. 1 – Nam Jun Paik

Sacrificial Burnings – Nancy Nicol

Michelle On The Day Of Surgery – Norman Cohn

Crime Time Comix Presents: Steel And Flesh – Eric Metcalfe and Dana Atchley

Gloria – Lisa Steele

Transvideo – Tom Sherman

East on the 401 – Tom Sherman

Love Tapes – Wendy Clarke

Split – Ardele Lister

Weak Bullet – Tony Orsler

Videage – Randy and Bernicci

Get Ready To March – Chip Lord

Delicate Issue – Kate Craig

Ma Vie C'est Pour Le Restant De Mes Jours – Robert Morin and Lorraine Defour

The Breakfast Table – Anita Thacher

Peter George – Kim Tomczak

Dogmachine – Elizabeth Chitty

Dangling By Their Mouths – Colin Campbell

Casting Call – Susan Britton

Virtuality – Marien Lewis

Test Tube – General Idea

Ontogenesis – Janice Tan aka

And Now The Truth – Vera Frenkel

I Bet You Ain't Seen Noth'n Like This Before – Rodney Werden