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6-8pm

8.15 - 10 pro

8-10pm

Aselectionof international works.

2 - 5 pro

Student Video+ Documentary I

Includes the Australian Video Festival Awards,sponsoredby Sony.

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Bil l Viola RetrospectIve I

6 -

pro

Independent Awards Programme I

2 - 5 pro

Music VideoOverseas and Australian finalists from the Independent category of

Finalists from theAustralian. VideoFestival Awardsthe A

Video Festival Awards (one of six independentprogrammes).

+ Documentary 11Computer Graphics And Animation

+ Media Show: Scratch VideoCitizen Kane, Reagan and the FA Cup Final are reprocessed byGorills Tapes for the UK's Channel4.

French Video IRecent tastes andstyles of French videoart.

Includes documentary on Aboriginal issues and the 1986 Victoriannurses strike. ($2)

Bill Viola's Anthem and A Portrait In Light and Heat, recordedamidst the mirages of the Sahara and thebleak prairies of Canada ."Derivingfrom a combination of the highly rational and the deeplyintuitive, his work probes many levels of experience" - BarbaraLondon, Museum ofModem Art.

Plus Rebels Without

PauseA unique feature of this year's Festival :

video In a dance club setting .Jamison Street Dance Club11-19 Jamison Street, City

Tuesday 30 August 7.30 pro - late$6 from the Powerhouse duringscreening times, $10 at the door.

25 August - 7 September 1988

Enter on Level 3, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo

3 - 5 pro

Home Video(fret)

Includes Julia Lessage tapes from Nicaragua. ($2)

6 - 7 pro

Danish VideoVideo artnarrativeandmusic clips.

2 -10 pro

Promotional and Home Video(free)

8 -10 pro

Independent Awards Programme II

25 August -7September

Please note: seating In the Target Theatre Islimited to 100

Week Two : 1 - 7 September

CHAUVEL CINEMAPaddington Town Hall, Cnr Oatley Roadand Oxford Street, Paddington.

6-8prn

8.30 - 11 pm

6-8 pm

8.30 - 12 pm

6-8pm

Break In Central TransmissionMetro TVAlternative video made by local communities in USA, Nicaragua,Melbourne and Yeundumu, and introduced by Cathy Scott fromPaperTiger, NYC, USA. Presented by MetroTelevision.

Artist Presentation By Jill ScottSydney artist Jill Scott introduces her sci-fi production WishfulThinking (1988) 30mans.

+ Video and Computer Art,Chicago StyleChicago has been recognized for innovative and experimental videoand computer art since the mid-70s . This is a programme of recentwork presented by Barbara Sykes-Dietze.

Independent Awards Programme III

Artist Presentation By RandelllRobert Randell & Frank Bendinelli -Melbourne's Randelli- presenttheir work, including the Sydney premiere ofWar Story (1988) 36rains .

+ New York VideoADavid Byme compilation of Talking Heads video, intercut withpeople offthestreet, plus twopieces byZbigniew Rybcznski, one ofwhichuses theJohn Lennon song Imagine.

+ Invisible TV(Independent Awards Programme IV)Every television genre gets the "scratch" treatment in InvisibleTelevision, a searing expose of modem television from the UK'sGorillaTapes.

In

ll~ "Women In Technological ArtExhibition and ForumsA day of screenings and discussions. Topics include Women inTechnological Artand Feminism in Film and Television . Involved:Elizabeth Grosz, Susan Dermody, Jennifer Stott, Lyn Cartwright,Sally Pryor, Margaret Wertheim, Tracy Moffatt, BarbaraSykes-Dietze, Sylvia Mackie, Cathy Vogan, Felicity Coonan, JillScott and Paula Dawson. Presented in association withWFT andMetro TV.

Italian VideoStephen Goddard will present this selection from Softvideo, Italy'smajor centre for theproduction, exhibition and distribution of videoart since 1982 .

8.30-11 .30 pm Independent Awards Programme V+ Infermental 7, Part IThis edition of the international video magazine Infermental wasputtogether in Buffalo, NewYo& The 58 artists represented comefrom30 countries.

2 - 5 pin

French Video Art :

6 - 8 pm

Bill Viola Retrospective II

6-8pm

6.30 - 8 pm

8.30 -11 pun

Current British Video

* Video MixA Fatal night of video cocktails.

Styleand_.Fashion ForumScreenings and discussions with the special guest of the Festival,French video writer and artist Jean-Paul Fargier. Fargic teaches attheUniversity of Paris-VIII, writes for Le Monde and for years hasbeen the sole video critic onLesCahlers DuCinema

Bill Viola's The Reflecting Pool (collected works) and FirstDream, recorded andedited in Japan.

8.30 - 11 pin

French Video II(Inc . Work By Jean-Luc Godard)Recent tastes and styles of French video art.

2 - 5 prn

Computer Graphics and theDigital Future ForumExamining creative and visual opportunities of digital technologyincludingtwohoursof recent computer graphics andanimation fromSeggraph 88 and Prix Ars Electronics 87 . Involved : Simon Penny,Paul Brown, Michael Murry, Sally Pryor, Andrew Quinn, StephenJones, Kevin DennesandJeffrey Shaw.

6 - 8 pin

Student And Music Video AwardsThe finalists from the QANTAS Student Awards and theIndependent MusicAwards.

Independent Awards Programme VI

The Bicentennial Will Not Be TelevisedMetro TVLive-to-tape media deconstruction of the Bicentennial (Chauvelfoyer and Metro TV Studios) . Presented by Metro TV and PaperTigerTelevision.

The work of 13 of the UK's leading independent video producerswill be screened in this programme from London Video Arts.

8.30 pun-late

Independent Awards PresentationAnnouncing the winners in the Independent category of theAustralian Video Festival.

Please note: the Chativel Bar opens at 5.30 pm

Looking With The Whole Body :

Six Video Installations

POWERHOUSE, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo.25 Aug - 9 Sept.

Joan Brassil : Time Warp Reflections (1988)Jeffrey Shaw: Heaven's Gate (1988)

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY,257 Oxford Street, Paddington. 24 Aug -11 Sept.

NanHoover : Light Composition (1988)

ARTSPACE,11 Randle Street, Surry Hills.4 Aug - 25 Sept.

Shigeko Kubota: Duchwnpiana: Nude DescendingStaircase (1976) andMeta-Marcel: Window (1976)All Scott: LifeFlight (1988)

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ArtGallery Road, Sydney . 24 Aug -18 Sept.

Bill Viola: Science oftheHeart (1983)

PRICES:Powerhouse weekend a'noon pass : $2

Single evening session : $6/43-sessions: $15/9

10-sessions : $45/35Gold pass: $75

Jamison Street : $6 from the Powerhouseduring screening times, $10 at the door.Please note: all sessions In the StudioTheatre of the Powerhouse are free.

Metro Television has a post-Festival event.Metro TV Is running a 2-day Introductory workshop on 10 &11 September on the use of home computers In generating

graphics and music for video. Course directors : SallyPryor, Andrew Quinn. Call 335 318 for details .

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Curafed by Sally Couacaud

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FOR MORE INFORMATION : 360 2325 1888 AustralianVideo Festival Director : Brian Langer. Administrator :Amanda McDonald Crowley . PO Box 316, PADDINGTON

NSw 2021 .

Want to know more? Buy a copy of Scan+Scan+ is a new magazine about video

being launched as part of theAustralian Video Festival .

Scan+ Incorporates the Festival programmeand is packed with essays, articles, and

information about the world scene.$6.50/$5 with every 10-session pass/

free with a gold pass.

The Australian Video Festival reserves the right to changethis programme without notice .

But we'll try not tol

The Australian Video Festival gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian Film Commission, Visual Arts/Craft Board of theAustralia Council, the Federal Government's funding and advisory body, NSW Ministry for the Arts, A.RI.,Goethe Institut, AllianceFrancaise de Sydney, Chicago Artists Abroad, British Council, Softvideo, City ArtInstitute, Women in Film and Television (WFT), Metro TV,Sony, QANTAS, Fairlight Instruments, Eurovision, Apple Computers, Sony Media Products Division, Video Paintbrush Co., Radio 2JJJ-FM.

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