PROGRAM 2: VOX POPULI
DEC 8 – DEC 15
PROGRAM 2: VOX POPULI [2020 ARCHIVE]
VOX POPULI: Descriptions and Video Stills
Due to licensing restrictions, videos are no longer available for viewing.
Portable Video in Vancouver
Richard WARD
Canada, 1975, B&W, 28 min (6 min excerpt)
Featuring interviews with the NFB’s Chris Pinney and Metro Media’s Gloria Keiler, Portable Video in Vancouver examines the potentials and realities surrounding handheld VTR (Video Tape Recorder) technology as an accessible means for the production of alternative media.
Skid Row
Terry KELTER (Metro Media)
Canada, 1973, B&W, 31 min (9 min)
Incorporating interviews with residents, local social planners, and members of the health department, Terry Kelter’s Skid Row gives an in-depth examination of the issues surrounding health and housing for those living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Graveyard and a Beggar
Mihato TAURA (Video Earth Tokyo)
Japan, 1975, B&W, 12 min
Borrowing a camera from Video Earth Tokyo founder Ko NAKAJIMA, in Graveyard and a Beggar Mihato TAURA approaches and attempts to engage with a woman living on the street near Tokyo’s Aoyama Cemetery, evincing the shared social concerns in both Canadian and Japanese alternative video while revealing questions about the ethics of the form.
Digitization made possible by a grant from Collaborative Cataloging Japan and XFR Collective. Courtesy Collaborative Cataloging Japan.
Transient Men
Diane LEMIRE
Canada, 1971, B&W, 30 min (6 min excerpt)
Produced for community television, Diane LEMIRE’s Transient Men opens with a conflict between police and a vagrant man before documenting a meeting at a church support group for the same extended group, offering space for some of society’s most marginalized to tell their own story.
