Friday, September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
Concurrent and in conspiracy with the movement now understood as the LA Rebellion, was a group of guerrilla videomakers, who, with unfettered access to an hour of public access television developed a tapestry program rich with Third World Filmmaking, documentary, experimental video art, interview, and avant-garde theater. Under the loose supervision of experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke, **View** became a vital platform for creative expression, political filmmaking, and exploration of this emerging video medium, all available to the unsuspecting Los Angeles cable access public. Purchasing worn second-hand tapes from official broadcasters and toiling late nights over the VTR, the UCLA student cable access program View is a forgotten cultural flashpoint, deserving of a new wave of appreciation and flowers. Over several screenings in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, T.A.P.E. is unearthing the three-quarter-inch tapes which depict a rich history of this remarkably inventive show. In conjunction with T.A.P.E.’s programming for our annual Home Video Day: Music Edition and Whammy!’s SOV (Shot on Video) September we are partnering with FTVA & Whammy! Analog Media to show new digitizations of *View* segments. Celebrating the alchemy of grass valley switchers, key chroma, and shot-on-video technology, the second program in the **View** series showcases the imaginative universe created by UCLA students. The television and video departments were a true laboratory in early editing, switching, and synthesizers, enabling students to have unprecedented access to professional broadcast equipment, and wielded not for game shows or news, but for experimental video. While student film often earns the shoe-gazing pejorative, student video projects debuted on View are anything but. Video zines, interviews between Julie Dash and Barbara McCullough, short documentaries, and interstitial oddities are pieced together in this View retrospective. Absurd, yet incisive, playful and inventive, this show pieces together some of the most exciting shot-on-video projects coming out of UCLA. Special thanks to the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Archive Research Study Center (ARSC) and Digital Lab. ## ## 7:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING ***T.A.P.E. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit dedicated to the creation, exhibition, and preservation of analog media. We are a volunteer run collective based out of Whammy! Analog Media. Learn more at* *[tapeanalog.org](http://tapeanalog.org/)* ***Whammy! Analog Media is a VHS store by day, microcinema by night located on the border of Echo Park and Silverlake. Buy tapes, get tickets to screenings, and more at* *[whammyanalog.com](http://whammyanalog.com/)*