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Show "Monterey's Boat People" Spencer Nakasako & Vincent DiGirolamo (28:46) This documentary on the Vietnamese fisherman now working in Monterey focuses on the current racial, economic and environmental controversies surrounding them. "Survival in America" Jon Alpert, Karen Ranucci. Steve GoodmanDowntown Community Television Center (38:00) Five stories, from around the country, show the poor and the working person's plight in an unsympathetic society. Video Art Grand Prize for Outstanding Achievement "Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)" Bill Viola (56 00) A subjective, meditative series of atmostpheric landscapes, from bamboo forests to rain drops on a windshield, all taped in Japan. ; Video Art Winners: 1. "Meta Mayan H"EdinVelez (20:00) A personal observation of the Guatemalan Highlands in which time, textures and color are heightened for the artists concerns. 2. "The Man on the Empire State" Teodoro Maus (60:00) A surreal, humanistic treatment of a Latin American who comes to live in New York City. 3. "Spiral PTL" Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, MimiShevitz (5:00) .... The hypnotic, complex, and mind-bending images in this piece were generated by interacting with a computer in realtime. .' , Video Art Honorable Mentions: "Leaving the 20th Century (Trilogy)" Max Almy (1 0:40) Three videotapes which take a pointedly satiric look at the realities of the 20th century and raises questions about the future. "SPINE TIME" Jnn Sturgeon (20:00) A poetic, investigative work on the nature of the transformative process of being, using personal dream images. "SPLIT" Ardele Lister (22:00) A dramatized portrait of Susy, a 1 6-year-old runaway smart, sad, restless and funny who lives in her boyfriend's car. "Tongues" Shirley Clarke, Sam Shepherd. Joseph Chaikin (20:00) An experimental work where the main character delivers his own last rites by constructing the span of a lifetime through dreams, stories, recollections and conversations. "Windfalls, 1 982" Matthew Geller (21:00) A complex interplay between narrative lines which serve as witty metaphors for human behavior. Video Art Finalists: "Deafman Glance" Robert WilsonByrd Hoffman Foundation, Inc. (27:00) A stark and stylized story of murder without the use of spoken words. 1 "Generic Video Art" Laurie McDonald & Tom Sims ( 1 1 :22) The video artists derived their idea from the term applied to the no-name foodshousehold items appearing in grocery stores. This tape represents five genre groups of video art. "Green Line" Eva Maier (2:50) A video dance inspired by the 1 8th Century music of Quinteto Boccherini. It Starts At Home" Michael Smith & Mark FischerMike & Mark Productions (25:00) Through some quirk of technology, Mike's private life and all the activity in his home is broadcast to the Cable World. "Letters" Happy LuchsingerLuchsinger Productions (5:13) Am internal examination of the self using love letters. X-ray images and computer assisted psychoanalysis. "Making a Paid Political Announcement" Howard Fried (7:00) . This is a political campaign message in which only promises . are made which Fried reckons will win the favour of five individual Seattle residents. "Montana" - Jane Veeder (3 06) "I love the physical world and travel with a relief map. When I get home I program real-time computer graphics to visualize the views and processes I couldn't reach or catch with my , video camera." (Veeder) "Parted Company" - James Wagner (8:30) An autobiographical documentary video poem about turning thirty and becoming separated. , - Ptessa turn to -para C3 - " - - - 11 - 4 t f-itH -f -t s ; ' ? i i .- -f 4 - Video Documentary Winners. 1 "How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age" Andrew A. Stern (58:30) A journalistic account of the 'haphazard, arbitrary' nature of the nuclear decision making process from President Kennedy to President Reagan. 2. "Art And The Prison Crisis" Eric Thiermann& Mark -SchwartzImpact Productions (28:00) The success story about creativity and its role in presenting a cost effective alternative to releasing unrehabilitated inmates back into society. 3. "In Our Own Backyard: The First Love Canal" Lynn Corcoran (59:00) The nation's first encounter with toxic waste and how the people involved, both in government and the community, responded to a frightening situation. Video Documentary Finalists: "Jeannette Rankin: The Woman Who Voted No" Ronald Bayly & Nancy Landgren (28:30) The life of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, who was the only member to vote against American ent'Y'o both world wars '-' |