Rebel video : the video movement of the 1970s and 1980s : London, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich / Heinz Nigg.

Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2017]

395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm

During the 1970s and 1980s, the independent community media and various youth movements across Europe inspired and abetted each other. The young activists discovered the video tape as a medium and as means to express their protesting mood and concerns. The easily produced moving images in videos soon also became also a weapon in the political and communication fights for the autonomous culture spaces the movement demanded in many countries. Videos were participative productions, done almost in real time and fast. This appropriation of video technology as means of two-way communication between sender and recipient also proved a key step towards the digital age. Today, consumers, citizens, and professionals not only receive moving images and audio documents. Anyone can almost anywhere produce and broadcast such pieces at no expense. The young activist-directors of 1970s and 1980s went beyond dreaming of such a development. They explored it and experimented within small networks.0Rebel Video portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents what topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked-up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and completed with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement. Exhibition: Landesmuseum Zürich, Switzerland (18.09.-15.10.2017).

9783858818010 (English edition ; pbk.)
3858818011

Video art Switzerland History Exhibitions.
Video installations (Art) Exhibitions.
Independent filmmakers Interviews.
Video art Europe History Exhibitions.
Art vidéo Suisse Histoire Expositions.
Installations vidéo (Art) Expositions.
Cinéastes indépendants Entretiens.
Art vidéo Europe Histoire Expositions.
Photography.
Independent filmmakers
Video art
Video installations (Art)
Europe
Switzerland
oral history project ; video artists ; interviews

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
interviews.
History
Interviews
Catalogues d'exposition.

Nigg, Heinz, writer of foreword.
Howe, Lindsay, translator.
Rosenblatt, Lisa, translator.
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, host institution.

Video movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Location: Library main 300626
Call No.: BIB 246823
Status: Available