Videofreex Pirate TV

Variety show of 44 shorts and excerpts by the infamous video pirates Videofreex 1969 - 1978. A companion to "Here Come the Videofreex" and MAYDAY 1971 RAW. Includes "Subject to Change Mash-up," "Lanesville TV Re-re-edit," "Abbie Hoffman selects," and Fred Hampton interview. Click BROWSE for indiv...

Hundreds of TV shows were broadcast on Videofreex pirate TV station from Maple Tree Farm (Lanesville NY, in the heart of the Catskill Mountains). This 44-minute compilation of two dozen segments includes live studio hosts & guests, local location reports, TV tropes, performance, sketch comedy, cr...

"Videofreex at Maple Tree Farm Slideshow" 1971-78 / 2019
Freex partners, early video collaborators and our families gathered in August at Breathe Inn, the chic renovated AirBnB that was our 1970s home, studio, media center, and pirate TV station, to celebrate our 50th anniversary since fouinding ...

Group collaborations where we were all cabled together with the experiment clearly on screen.
It's Gonna Rain (1970)
Specia Video Feedback Effects (1969)
Me's and Youse (1971)
Oriental Magic Show (1973)
plus Lanesville TV Live Studio Intro's & Outro's (1974)
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a/k/a Faces (1971, excerpt 2:30)
In the Lanesville TV studio, Bart, Skip, Parry, Carol & Nancy combine their faces with a Sony Special Effects Generator and lotsa giggles. The Videofreex were most unique as video artists and filmmakers when they collaborated as a group live combining together sim...

Classic early indie art video... prescient reality TV show... women's liberation parable.
With 'live' Lanesville TV studio intro & outro featuring Harriet Benjamin, Videofreex Nancy Cain & Bart Friedman, and WNET Guest Co-host Russell Connor.

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(3 minutes, 2 channels, b&w, 1974/2021) ***Prime time broadcast on Turner Classic Movies in December 2021 "Archival Screening Night Roadshow." Art video by early indy videomaker Andy Mann & by Videofreex Skip Blumberg showing off virtuosic hand-held camera skills, prescient camera journalism, an...

Behind-the-scenes documentary at Buzzy's stellar studio band's recording session of this classic rock song. Record Plant November 1970. Shelly Yakus - VP Record Plant & engineer, Doug Rodriguez & Hughie McCracken - guitars, Bill Takas - bass, Luther Rix - drums, Kenny Ascher? - pianist, vibes - ?...

Guitar-centric rock performances captured for the first live multi-camera mixed rock concert projections, with live abstract video feedback. 9 or so songs by Powerhouse, NRBQ & Pig Iron.

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Feel the fervor of 1970s utopian activism! Action-packed, emotionally-charged. 25 young indy filmmakers, including the Videofreex, with the earliest video cameras, cover the country’s largest civil disobedience peace protests from inside. Authentic counter-program from the counter-culture. Ersatz...

12 minutes (Segment is "Videofreex Pirate TV Show") 21st century edit of the original recording from the Videofreex Prince Street studio control room of the 1969 infamous freewheeling live and tape TV show, rejected by high CBS programming executives as too far ahead of its time. The time is no...

Abbie interviewed by Videofreex in Chicago during the Chicago 7 trial Oct 1969.
Abbie's speech at Yale University, 1970. Abbie is wearing a cape with a star on it.

Excerpts from longer raw tapes.

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The charismatic young Black Panther leader is interviewed by Videofreex on Oct 19, 1969, six and a half weeks before he was killed on Dec 4 in a raid by the FBI and Chicago Police Department. The Videofreex - David Cort, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, and Parry Teasdale - traveled from their Prince Stree...

Civil rights protest demonstration crowd in Foley Square NYC in 1970 call & response, in the credits of "Judas & the Black Messiah," tells the story & polemic of the Black Panther Party leading up to final verse about Fred Hampton. Recorded by Videofreex Carol Vontobel & Skip Blumberg, 21st Centu...

Videofreex Bart Friedman & David Cort while away the night at Maple Tree Farm performing improvised, expressive, structuralist songs of two emotions.

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(Segment from "Videofreex Pirate TV Show") A 21st century remembrance of a live pirate broadcast TV show with videotape roll-ins ... from cozy local Catskill Mountain culture to outrageous art videos.Featuring: "Lanesville TV News Buggy Report," "Farkle/Van Fight," Me's & Youse," "Oriental Magic...

Complete version that's excerpted in the Videofreex trailer. Early art video produced by Videofreex Parry Teasdale with Skip Blumberg for the opening of the Freex Friday night screenings in their Prince St studio. The audience had just walked down the same street and up the same 5-story staircase...

...until Police arrive.

Naked artist performance at Yoko Ono's Everson Museum retrospective October 9, 1971. Edit 2013. 2:30. Segment in "Videofreex Pirate TV Show".

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Honoring Yippie / The Realist publisher / stand-up comedian / author / provocateur Paul Krassner on the anniversary of his marriage to Videofreex Nancy Cain. Slideshow created for intended NYC PK Celebration, yet to be.
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