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All Circuits On: Remembering Douglas Davis and Paul Ryan

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:30 pm

Works

Post-Video
Douglas Davis
1981, 29:06 min, b&w and color, sound

Post-Video is an anthology of the video, film, and performance works produced by Davis from 1976 to 1980, with commentary by John Hanhardt, who at the time was Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In Hanhardt's analysis, this work centers on "the...

Proto Media Primer
Raindance 
1970, 16:05 min, b&w, sound

Paul Ryan's Proto Media Primer includes scenes of Abbie Hoffman awaiting the verdict from the Chicago 7 trial and ironic man-on-the-street interviews.

Spontaneous and free-form, The Rays documents the philosophical musings of Raindance members Michael Shamberg, Paul Ryan and Frank Gillette on the beach at Point Reyes, California. Passing the camera around "like a joint," they theorize on the nature of television and alternative communications...