The Independent TV Show

Jan 28 — 29, 1978
Field:

Screening

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

1:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Description:

Independent TV Show was a video festival featuring work by artists and producers based in California, United States. Divided into two four-hour video sessions, the festival featured tapes by John Baker and John Hunt, John Baldessari, Paul Challacombe and Jim Wiseman, Lowell Darling, Marilyn Emerzian, Frank Gillette, Ron Hays, Ant Farm, Peter Kirby, Don Levy, Joan Logue, Michael Scoggins, Lisa Rose, Sheila Ruth and Jan Zimmerman, Stephen Beck, John Sturgeon, and Optic Nerve.

Program:

Don Levy, Primal Force. 30 min. 
Ant Farm, Media Burn. 28 min.
John Hunt and John Baker, Syd Cassyd: A Video Portrait. 25 min. 
Paul Challacombe and Jim Wiseman, Tai Chi Alpha Tala and Reflections. 30 min. 
Michael Scoggins, Lose Y’r Job and Untitled. 16 min. 30 sec.
Lisa Rose, Sumi. 8 min. 
Jan Zimmerman and Sheila Ruth, Signed by a Woman. 1 hr.
Stephen Beck, Video Weavings, Anima, and Union. 29 min.
John Baldessari, 6 Colourful Stories and 2 Melodies. 22 min.
Optic Nerve, Dead Action. 25 min.
John Sturgeon, Shapes from the Bone, 2 of Triangles, Conjunct, and Aspects. 16 min. 
Frank Gillette, Maui Landscape
Peter Kirby, Blue and Yellow and Caution: Men Working. 7 min.
Marilyn Emerzian, Consume and Shelter. 19 min.
Lowell Darling, News Tapes.
Joan Logue, Portraits.
Ron Hays, Space Heads and Hands. 28 min

Organized by Marilyn Emerzian.

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.