Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions Of Early Independent Video Symposium

When video cameras first became widely available in the late 1960s, a global network of artists, activists, and documentarians quickly had the same realization: video is not merely a new format; video will change EVERYTHING about moving image media. Over the next decade-plus, idealistic videomakers fought to overturn the top-down hierarchies of the film and TV industries to create a true “people’s television” that encouraged participation, feedback, and contributions from its audience. The proponents of Guerrilla Television threw out the rules of media, filming ordinary people in their own communities, and the revolution quickly spread. The result was a remarkably democratic movement, one in which communities that rarely appeared on network television- women, poor people, people of color, political radicals, queer people – told their own stories. This event is co-presented by Media Burn Archive, University of Chicago, and Video Data Bank. More Info below.