Paul Garrin Videoworks: Volume 1
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Activism, Image Processing, Music Video, Videoworks
Garrin advocates the use of video as an activist and community tool and a means for people to represent themselves. These three pieces examine the Tompkins Square riots, police harassment, and the use of home video equipment to record a truly democratic local news.
“Once ‘Big Brother’ was the state watching the people, now the people can begin watching the state.”
—Paul Garrin
Included Titles
Free Society is a short experimental music video that juxtaposes images of police harrassment in the U.S. with images of the military quelling revolutionary opposition. Includes comments from televangelist Jerry Falwell. This...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: image processing, music, politics |
After an all-night session of editing Free Society, Garrin headed home with video-8 camera in-hand, only to happen upon the Tompkins Square riots. As police tried to enforce a curfew aimed at removing homeless people from the park,...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: activism, city, crime or violence, documentary, media analysis, state, the |
This alternative commercial promotes the aggressive democratic use of home video equipment to record local news of community activism and other events that don’t make the headlines for political reasons. This video urges citizens to break the...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: activism |
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