Lectures tagged "Film & Video"


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History of Experimental Video in Boston
Otto Piene
January 31, 2010
00:47:28
Otto Piene, sky artist and former director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Fred Barzyk, former director of WGBH's New Television Workshop, talk about Boston's influential role in the creation of the video art medium in the late 1960s.
Harry Shearer's The Silent Echo Chamber
Harry Shearer
November 20, 2009
01:00:00
Artist and performer Harry Shearer discusses his recent video work, The Silent Echo Chamber.
End of the Tunnel: Vietnam, a Television History
End of the Tunnel: Vietnam, a Television History
Elizabeth Deane
November 11, 2009
01:00:44
WGBH producers Elizabeth Deane and Judith Vecchione discuss Vietnam: A Television History with a panel of Vietnam experts, following a screening of the program's final episode, "The End of the Tunnel (1973-1975)".
Tariq Ali: The Idea of Communism
Tariq Ali
November 10, 2009
00:59:40
Writer and political activist Tariq Ali discusses the historical implementations and alternate versions of communism and his new book, The Idea of Communism.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Harriet Reisen
October 29, 2009
00:54:33
Screenwriter Harriet Reisen discusses her new biography Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.
Beyond the Margins and Between the Lines
Scott Kirsner
October 24, 2009
00:57:08
Two innovators talk about employing a variety of narrative strategies to tell a story. Tim Kring, developer and executive producer of the blockbuster NBC show Heroes, gives a visual presentation about his use of transmedia storytelling. Reif Larson, whose The Collected Works of T. S.
John Hodgman Interviewed by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta
October 24, 2009
00:52:45
Tom Perrotta grills (or perhaps roasts, as on a slow-burning fire) the man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania on topics ranging from the sublime to the downright silly.
Tribute to Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg
October 24, 2009
00:44:01
New York Times bestselling children’s author Brian Lies hosts a celebration of the achievements of beloved author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg.