The Legart Archive
These resources "introduce and examine experimental film and videoʼs aesthetic concerns, their political opposition to the values of commercial cinema and the alternative practices which they have developed throughout the 20th century."
The Video Show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 reviewed by Tony Rayns in TimeOut, May 1975, with a reference to Outside the Grounds of Obscenity and Libel…..
The Technique of the Film Cutting Room by Ernest Walter (1968)
A review for the Journal of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians (ACTT) of a Focal Press publication, the imprint servicing mainly amateur filmmakers and students. The article observed that the techniques described used methods that in the world of television were rapidly becoming obsolete. The publishers and friends of the author were so insenced by the line taken that the editor was forced to print a second review in the following issue. Such is the power of union members when behaving like the ruling classes.
"The Brief Encounters project will reinforce, in the context of contemporary practice in the studio and the gallery, the close relationship between the working space and the showing space, the private activity of making and looking, the public activity of installing and debating. It will be achieved in four phases: curatorial research, commissioning of artists, production residency / exhibition and a conference. The research phase is the subject of this proposal and will lead towards identifying the six artists who will be invited to a six-week residency in the Artspace studios, to work together on individual installations as part of a specific Artspace exhibition. A conference will conclude the project and event, though the installations will be de-mountable and will be offered for touring. A separate proposal from myself and Artspace in 2004 will address the post-research phase of the project." Extract from funding for unsuccesful funding proposal to Australia Council.