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DVD002799: Surveying The First Decade, Vol. 1, Program 3: Approaching Narrative - “There are Problems to be Solved”
: Multiple
: Video Data Bank

Description:: DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w. fullscreen. sound.
Director:: Acconci, Vito
Running Time:: Short. 58 minutes
Sound:: sound
Color:: b/w
Country:: USA
Year:: 1976
Language:: English
Genre:: Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production
Notes:: THE RED TAPES is a three-part epic that features the diary musings of a committed outsider: revolutionary, prisoner, artist.
Director:: Foreman, Richard
Running Time:: Short. 24 minutes
Sound:: sound
Color:: b/w
Country:: USA
Year:: 1976
Language:: English
Genre:: Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production
Notes:: Original duration 42 min. Created for the American Dance Festival.
Director:: Ginsberg, Arthur; Video Free America
Running Time:: Short. 33 minutes
Sound:: sound
Color:: color and b/w
Country:: USA
Year:: 1972 - 1975
Language:: English
Genre:: Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production, Documentary
Notes:: Original running time 60 min. The private life of a not-so-average American couple-Carel Row and Ferd Eggan. She is a porn actress and filmmaker; he is a bisexual junkie. Originally shown as a 3-channel video installation on 8 monitors, with a live camera feed of the audience, and often with Carel and Ferd present. This excerpt from the one-hour tape that was broadcast on WNET's series Video and Television Review in 1975 features an interview with Carel, Ferd, and Ginsberg five years later.