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Series: New Television
Program: New Television
Episode: 203
Date: 1990-01-01
Subject: Firth, Fred
Copyright Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation and Wexner Center for the Arts; Res Balzli and Cie Nadau
Clip Description
This episode of "New Television" features "Step Across the Border."
"A musical journey around the world with the dazzling composer and guitarist Fred Firth.... Two young German filmmakers take viewers on a ‘celluloid journey,' a black-and-white road movie full of the color of Firth's personality and improvisational music, from Tokyo to Leipzig, London, Zurich, New York, and beyond." -- WGBH press release
Produced by Cinenoman (Munich). Directed by Nicholas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features "Step Across the Border."
"A musical journey around the world with the dazzling composer and guitarist Fred Firth.... Two young German filmmakers take viewers on a ‘celluloid journey,' a black-and-white road movie full of the color of Firth's personality and improvisational music, from Tokyo to Leipzig, London, Zurich, New York, and beyond." -- WGBH press release
Produced by Cinenoman (Munich). Directed by Nicholas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.
As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.
See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/New408.HTML
