Artist's Showcase; Batteries Not Included

06/27/1997

Dubbed from A0-01133. Original date 11/13/78.

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Series: Artist's Showcase
Program: Batteries Not Included
Series Description: Anthology series of experimental, avant garde video productions. Program titles: "DANCE FOR CAMERA - SHOW I: DISTRICT I and PALE COOL, PALE WARM;" "DANCE FOR CAMERA - SHOW II: TZADDICK;" "DANCE FOR CAMERA - SHOW III: GEORGE'S HOUSE;" "SELECTED WORKS - 1974 - 1975;" "THE GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR;" "SET OF COINCIDENCE;" "ALL ACROSS BOSTON;" " UNTITLED PERFORMANCE BY ROBERT GOLDMAN;" "QUIDDATAS;" "TELEPORTRAITS;" "FOUR SIDED TAPES;" "AMY LOWELL;" "PRIMORDIAL SOUP;" "HOWARD;" "THIRD TAPE;" "PAST FANTASIES;" "SEMI BUFFET;" "EAST ENDED TAPE;" "A COLOR PIECE FOR TV;" "CONTEXTS AND ONE AND MANY;" "THREE TRANSITIONS;" "CITY SCAPE;" "OUT OF TIME;" "NO TITLE." Series release date: 1975
Program Description: In “Batteries Not Included” Betsy Connors depicts a futuristic world of not quite human occupants using stop motion animation techniques. Elongated figures shuffle about while watching a reflection of their own image as projected onto a monitor that drops before them. In an open house furnished in minimalist design, one figure knocks over another one, causing blood to accumulate slowly. A toy airplane hangs suspended in front of a monitor playing footage filmed from a plane, creating the illusion that the toy craft is flying over moving ground. A landscape looking like the moon’s craggy surface is slowly populated by clay figures, who stand their ground during a violent storm until slowly disappearing from sight. Filmed entirely using miniature sets of Connors’ own design, the work plays with the illusions she creates. Sometimes the audience is in on the techniques used (as in the case of the flying airplane) and sometimes the audience is left in the dark.
Duration: 00:14:56
Asset Type: Broadcast program
Media Type: Video
Subjects: Airplanes; Miniature objects
Topics: Film and Television
Creators: Connors, Betsy ()
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