Chicago – What made the 1960s the petri dish for the counterculture had to do with many of that movement’s participants trying new things in the “underground.” When Sony released its first home video capability in 1968, many like-minded individuals – who wanted to use the technology to gather alternative news – set out to change the world. The result is a new documentary, “Here Comes the Videofreex.” The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago will offer a premiere screening and panel discussion on May 19th, 2016. For details, click here.
’Here Come the Videofreex’ at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Photo credit: Gene Siskel Film Center
The archives that spawned the video footage, some of which hasn’t been seen since it was actually taped, is the Video Data Bank (Vdb). The Vbd is a preservationist arm of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and a panel talk after the documentary screening will discuss the project,...
’Here Come the Videofreex’ at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Photo credit: Gene Siskel Film Center
The archives that spawned the video footage, some of which hasn’t been seen since it was actually taped, is the Video Data Bank (Vdb). The Vbd is a preservationist arm of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and a panel talk after the documentary screening will discuss the project,...
- 5/19/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Glenn here and welcome back to Doc Corner. Each Tuesday we're bringing reviews and features on documentaries from theatres, festivals, and on demand.
The news is constantly changing, and never more so than in today’s evolving media landscape. Where once a story would unfold nightly on the broadcast network’s news programs, now it unfolds live and often unedited, captured by anybody, anywhere. Here Come the Videofreex is a new documentary by Jenny Raskin and Jon Nealon that examines the very beginnings of this shift in news reportage by going all the way back to the late 1960s and getting up close to the then breaking trend of grass roots video journalism that was birthed in the shadow of Sony’s first video recorder units. Focusing on the collective known as the “Videofreex”, this entertaining film charts how these documentarians – and that’s exactly what they were – captured daily life,...
The news is constantly changing, and never more so than in today’s evolving media landscape. Where once a story would unfold nightly on the broadcast network’s news programs, now it unfolds live and often unedited, captured by anybody, anywhere. Here Come the Videofreex is a new documentary by Jenny Raskin and Jon Nealon that examines the very beginnings of this shift in news reportage by going all the way back to the late 1960s and getting up close to the then breaking trend of grass roots video journalism that was birthed in the shadow of Sony’s first video recorder units. Focusing on the collective known as the “Videofreex”, this entertaining film charts how these documentarians – and that’s exactly what they were – captured daily life,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
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