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Videofreex
The Videofreex were a pioneering video collective who used the Sony Portapak for countercultural video projects from 1969 to 1978. They were founded in 1969 by David Cort, Mary Curtis Ratcliff and Parry Teasdale, after Cort and Teasdale met each other at the Woodstock Music Festival. They were based out of a 17 bedroom house in the Catskill Mountains named the Maple Tree Farm. In order to receive an initial grant of $40,000 from The New York State Council of the Arts, the Videofreex rebranded itself as the non-profit "Media Bus". Michael Shamberg, author of '' Guerrilla Television'' and founding member of TVTV, remarked, "The Freex are the most production oriented of the video groups €¦in terms of finished, cleanly edited, high quality tape, which is generally quite entertaining, the Videofreex are clearly the best." Mirroring the beliefs outlined in ''Guerrilla Television'', they believed they could turn the medium of television, at the time dominated by The "Big Three" Televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parry Teasdale
Parry Teasdale is an American video artist and a founding member of the early video collective Videofreex. He was also involved with Lanesville TV, one of the first unlicensed TV stations, throughout the 1970s. Role in founding Videofreex Teasdale attended the Woodstock music festival during the summer of 1969 where he met and became friends with future Videofreex co-founder David Cort. Both having brought video equipment, the pair collaborated in filming the festival, placing emphasis on the crowds rather than the musical performers in their footage. After an unsuccessful attempt to sell the Woodstock tapes to the CBS news program ''60 Minutes'', Teasdale moved to Manhattan to found Videofreex along with Cort and Cort's then-girlfriend Curtis Ratcliff (Boyle 1997, p. 15). CBS executive Don West quickly became interested in the newly formed group's work, particularly their portrayals of youth and 1960s counterculture. He funded the shooting of the pilot of a new program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |