Rok 1977 - 261

A film by Adele Friedman

A film by Gary Adkins

Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft resisters, and his personal involvement with the issue. Ramos, who had served an eighteen-month prison sentence for draft resistence, was interviewed by New York news reporter Gabe Pressman. Using repetition and juxtaposition, he contrasts the unedited interview footage — and patronizing comments of the news crew — with Pressman's final televised news report. In his ironic manipulation of the material, Ramos exposes the illusion and artifice of television news.

Karl Cohen's promo for Flight to the Future shows with music by George Mundy.

T.R. Uthco artist Doug Hall drew on members of Ant Farm and Optic Nerve to create Game of the Week, a striking document of his residency with the San Francisco Giants. Interspersing footage of himself and team members like Willie McCovey with an actual televised game, Hall was able to fabricate his own field of dreams. The seminal Media Burn combined the creative resources of Ant Farm, along with Optic Nerve, The Residents, T.R. Uthco, and others. During this momentous performance, Ant Farm drove a customized Cadillac through a wall of burning TV sets to create a remarkable image of media cataclysm.

Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the Argentinian military coup d'état of 1976.

A recording of a clock ticking for 7 minutes.

An animated short about the titular event.

Two conflicting views of our late(great?) two-hundredth birthday by a novice filmmaker.

"Chronoma was conceived as a follow-up to Rythmes 76: its composition is still inspired by the repetitive processes of Steve Reich's music, with their gradual progression. This time, we have a sequence of photographs taken with a motorized camera (a proto movie camera) in a circular movement around a high-voltage electric tower in northern Paris. The initial image is in itself a drawing of lines intersecting to form angles." -JMB