Some people were making films on video in 1979!
John Dorr, 1944-1993
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John Dorr takes a black and white security camera and a Betamax deck and makes, in camera, a feature length film called Sudzall Does It. [more] |
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John makes his second feature, The Case of The
Missing Consciousness starring Strawn Bovee and John Dorr. It's
first screening is at The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art.
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EZTV Video Gallery debuts with a screening of Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place.[more] |
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John makes his fourth feature, Approaching Omega,
starring Harry Hart-Browne, S.A. Griffin and Robin Fuentes.
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EZTV Video Gallery and Production Center opens in its own space at 8543 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood's New Orleans Square. [more] |  |
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EZTV Art Gallery opens in the EZTV Video Gallery and Production Center. James Williams is the director until 1985 followed by Michael J. Masucci. [more] | ||
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Crushed Lilies, an experimental work by T. Jankowski, is produced and screened at EZTV. Many other experimental works subsequently screen. [more] | |
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EZTV's art gallery presents a show of digital art. | ||
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Twenty six weekly half hour episodes of Hour 25: SFTV, an interview show on the subject of science fiction, are produced at EZTV's facilities.[more] | |
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Political documentary Dorothy Ray Healey, An American Red by Eve Goldberg screens at EZTV. [more] |  |
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| David Curlendar, a graduate student at UCLA, shows the first computer-generated animation at EZTV. | |
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Blonde Death by James Dillinger becomes EZTV's first hit running continually for four months. [more] |  |
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The Truth is Bad Enough by Michael Kearns screens at EZTV on multi-track video.[more] | |
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Mark Kramer opens an EZTV Video Gallery in Dallas, Texas. [more] |  |
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Terry Zwigoff shows his documentary about underground artist R. Crumb, Crumb, as a work-in-progress at EZTV accompanied by a show of Crumb's work in the EZTV Art Gallery. | ||
| EZTV collaborates with LA SIGRAFF, Visual Music Alliance, and California Outside Music Alliance to present "On the Threshold", a multimedia event at the Hollywood Palace in downtown LA. [more] | |
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What Happened to Kerouac? becomes the first citywide video hit playing continually at three video theaters in Los Angeles. [more] | ||
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Warner Brothers screens the feature length film
Mike's Murder, starring Debra Winger, at EZTV in consideration
for Academy Awards.
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The video component of The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival screens at EZTV. | ||
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In collaboration with the American Film Institute, EZTV screens 3 feature films made on video by Jean Luc Godard including Grandeur and Decadence. | ||
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The West Hollywood Sign, conceived by EZTV Artistic Director Michael J. Masucci and located next to EZTV, is unveiled on the 40th anniversary of the introduction of video technology. | |
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120 1-minute messages are recorded on videotape and sent to President Reagan as part of The Live Videotaping Party in support of The Great Peace March. | ||
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EZTV and KPFK collaborate to present a live computer chat with Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka as part of The Los Angeles Fringe Festival. [more] | ||
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Strawn Bovee produces Astral Tea Parties at EZTV. The tea parties are talk show, performance and video events covering fields as diverse as physics and the Japanese tea ceremony. [more] |
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John Dorr and Lewis MacAdams make 26 one-hour documentaries about poets for the . Poets include Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Octavio Paz, Louise Glück, and Sonia Sanchez. [more] | |
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| EZTV screens The Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroeder, interviews with Charles Bukowski that originated as 5 minute segments on French TV. | |
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Zina Bethune and Michael J. Masucci collaborate on Dance Outreach in the People's Republic of China, a profile of dancer/choreographer Zina Bethune. | ||
| Siggraph/LA Art '90, a show of digital art, screens at EZTV as part of Los Angeles Art Festival's Open Festival. | |
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EZTV Arts Foundation sponsors a four month series of screenings and discussions called "Conversations in Video" on the subject of current trends in video. | ||
| Kim McKillip and Michael J. Masucci work with Patrick Wall, organizer of the environmental group Earth Alert, to make the documentary Orange County: Beween the Sewage and the Sea at EZTV's facilities. | |
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| CyberSpace Gallery opens in the upstairs space at EZTV with a show called Silent Partners. [more] | |
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Dr. Timothy Leary leads a series of Monday night interactive multimedia lecture-demonstrations at CyberSpace Gallery titled "How to Operate Your Brain" |  |
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John Dorr and Mike Kaplan make the feature length documentary Luck, Trust and Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country. [more] | |
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John Dorr dies of complications from AIDS in Los Angeles. |  |
