COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE CAST IRON TV
A weekly artists' TV series, Manhattan Cable Public Access Channel D, 1979 to c.1991.
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thursday, July 25, 2013
1980 The Slits "They're Fucking On Your Head"
Note: The scoop light was used to light Hannah Schygulla whom Lindzee Smith brought to 93 Grand. We haven't yet found the schedule with that program.
LOCATIONS
The first two years most segments were shot on location in New York, rather than in studio--except for a few trips out of town: ie the Annenberg Conference in or near Philadelphia to shoot the New World Information Order programs. Dee Dee Halleck was one of the interviewers on NWIO.
Duncan Smith's "On the Current Symbolic Status of Oil" was shot on the New Jersey Turnpike and at a drive-in movie theatre.
Michael was series co-producer in 1980 and 1981 which meant helping plan the series and doing camera work or sound with me. We were both members of the video coop
of 12 artists that had been set up through CNAA, Inc. (See TOOLS below.
Michael McClard |
Ari Up, The Slits |
The Slits: Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Palm Olive, Don Letts "They're Fucking on Your Head" rehearsal at Tier 3, New York, 1980. Excerpt screened on C-Update. Courtesy The Slits and Lindzee Smith.
For Michael's artist website and interviews in Bomb Magazine go to LINKS.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Dee Dee Halleck: Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times 1981
Crime Tales 1982 by Robert Burden and Dictelio Cepeda
Note: Robert Burden was a brilliant editor who had worked with me on the subtitles for Oued Nefifik: A Foreign Movie, moonlighting at NVI where he worked. LB
Squat Theatre 256 West 23rd Street New York |
Sunday, July 21, 2013
George C. Stoney, Documentary Filmmaker and Media Activist 1916-2012
NEW YORK-- George Stoney, a seminal documentary filmmaker, media activist and teacher championed the use of public access television since its inception. He believed it was about more than access--that films should change situations and help build community. He passed away on July 12 2012 in his New York apartment shortly after his 96th birthday party at the Puleston estate in Brookhaven, Long Island, an annual celebration hosted by Betty Puleston, George's long time companion, and attended by relatives, friends and George's NYU film school students and colleagues on the faculty.
Note: In the early days of Public Access, George's cable TV show "NYU Presents" was pre-empted for a commercially-sponsored program on baby foods.
Note: In the early days of Public Access, George's cable TV show "NYU Presents" was pre-empted for a commercially-sponsored program on baby foods.
Photo: Liza Béar, June 2012, Brookhaven LI |
Friday, July 19, 2013
The Algiers Killings by Janet Densmore
Produced for the Communications Update,
Spring 1981, series
Eye-witness testimony of a grand jury case
involving killings by police in New Orleans'
black community. This documentary program
was initially shown on C-Update in October 1981
following censorship in New Orleans. Some of
Densmore's original footage was incorporated
into a CBS 60 Minutes treatment of the story
a year and a half later.
Screening Dates:
October 1981 C-Update, MCTV, New York City
January 1982 The Kitchen, Video Viewing Room
Fall 1982 PBS Station, Houston, Texas
May 1983 Art Expo Chicago
May 1983 The Museum of Modern Art
Spring 1981, series
Eye-witness testimony of a grand jury case
involving killings by police in New Orleans'
black community. This documentary program
was initially shown on C-Update in October 1981
following censorship in New Orleans. Some of
Densmore's original footage was incorporated
into a CBS 60 Minutes treatment of the story
a year and a half later.
Screening Dates:
October 1981 C-Update, MCTV, New York City
January 1982 The Kitchen, Video Viewing Room
Fall 1982 PBS Station, Houston, Texas
May 1983 Art Expo Chicago
May 1983 The Museum of Modern Art
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