August 28, 2020
... has digitized a massive archive of documentary footage from Top Value Television ( TVTV ) , the iconic team of self-described “guerrilla television” makers who were ... movement of the 1970s. A Bay Area-based collective of artists and activists, TVTV became widely known for its provocative and irreverent public access broadcasts, ... for the Humanities (NEH), BAMPFA has made accessible hundreds of hours of TVTV footage on a newly launched website that also includes new interviews with the ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020Wednesday, October 21, 2020Thursday, October 22, 2020
... Steve Seid Wednesday, October 21, 8:15 PM PDT Join us for a live conversation with TVTV cofounders Allen Rucker and Megan Williams and media curator and writer Steve ... film program; you will receive an access link via email prior to the event. TVTV The dissident mediamakers of TVTV deliver a ragtag report from the 1972 Republican presidential convention, with ...
September 1–November 4, 2020
... . Alternative Visions continues through the fall with Yugoslav short works, TVTV coverage of the 1972 Republican presidential convention, and a new film by Sky ... The survey of Latin American animation is cosponsored by GLAS Animation. The TVTV program has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the ...
August 13, 2020
... Viewable for First Time in Decades NEH-Funded Project Includes New Interviews with TVTV ’s Founding Members (Berkeley, CA) August 13, 2020— The UC Berkeley Art ... has digitized a massive archive of documentary footage from Top Value Television (TVTV) ,the iconic team of self-described “guerrilla television” makers who were a ... movement of the 1970s. A Bay Area–based collective of artists and activists, TVTV became widely known for its provocative and irreverent public access broadcasts, ...
May 9, 2018
... grant to safeguard and enhance its holdings of work by Top Value Television ( TVTV )—a Bay Area-based collective of experimental artists and political activists ... a two-year project to preserve more than 400 analog videos that were produced by TVTV , a highlight of the museum’s internationally renowned collection of film and ... been aired. A pioneering team of self-described “guerrilla video-makers,” TVTV was among the first to harness the potential of video as a cultural form, ...
... avant-garde cinema, seminal video art, the innovative work of video collectives TVTV (Top Value Television) and Optic Nerve, rare animation, Eastern European and ...
Thursday, June 6, 1991
Top Value Television ( TVTV ) was an adhoc group of "video freaks," mediamakers, artists and activists, ... irreverent, alternative take on the American political process. With a crew of 19, TVTV infiltrated the delegate caucuses, Young Republican rallies, antiwar ... Henry Kissinger, and Walter Cronkite. Using fitful segues and iconclastic wit, TVTV added a fresh journalistic perspective to the first 1/2" videodoc ever ...
Sunday, November 20, 1988
... poignancy and artful rendering-as expertly as Top Value Television ( TVTV ), a shifting group of artists whose founding member Michael Shamberg coined the ... "guerrilla television." The first Portapak documentary produced for national TV, TVTV's The Lord of the Universe (58:27 mins, Color/B&W) is a brisk, scathing exposé ...
Sunday, March 30, 1980
... The show is about TV format and includes such titles as Tales of Television (a TVTV production), Shoot Out (a TVTV production written by Doug Hall and Jody Proctor for “The Lone Ranger”), ...
Sunday, April 6, 1980
... Republican Convention by Ant Farmers working with the late documentary collective TVTV . • (1972, 4 mins) The Cadillac Ranch Show An extended document of the making ...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
... around cooperative efforts. The media collectives, such as Top Value Television ( TVTV ), Ant Farm, and Optic Nerve, were scalable, growing in number to match a ... TV sets to create a remarkable image of media cataclysm. A complex undertaking, TVTV's iconoclastic Lord of the Universe required some two-dozen guerrilla video ... (Ant Farm, 1975, 23 mins, Color, BetaSP, PFA Collection). Lord of the Universe (TVTV, 1974, 58:30 mins, B&W, BetaSP, From Video Data Bank) Sunday, March 6 5:15 PM ...