1971 | United States | Archival

Last Party at West End Avenue before Leaving for the Country

  • English - 30 mins
  • Director | Videofreex
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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In this video, the Videofreex host a party during which the main source of entertainment is a video-television feedback loop. In one room, a video camera linked up to a television set allows party guests to see themselves, as if in a mirror, while guests in the other room can also watch the recording, and may speak to them through a microphone. Although the voices of the off-screen guests can be heard on the tape, they are always imageless. In effect, the set up in the first room allows people to hear but not see those with whom they attempt to communicate, while those in the second room, although visually unknown, become the more authoritative narrators and choreographers of the videotaped acts captured in this tape recording.

Party 1970s New York Counter-culture Video Art Archival Experimental Observational
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