Series: New Television Workshop
Program: New Television
Episode: 608
Date: 1989-01-01
Subject: Landscape
People: Simon, Abigail; Zurkow, Marina
Copyright Holder: Marina Zurkow

Clip Description
"Funeral" is a collage-style work that incorporates images of many different landscapes. As voices apologize, the viewer is subjected to images of moving trains, a cabin in the woods, mountains, and a hawk moving through the sky. Dizzying and sometimes out of focus, the piece incorporates still and projected images into its ever-moving scenery. Some black-and-white pictures appear. "Funeral," which is approximately six minutes long, was conceived by Marina Zurkow, with Abigail Simon serving as a collaborator.

Program Description
This episode of "New Television" features Jeffrey Bell's "Radio Inside" and Marina Zurkow's "Funeral."

Jeffrey Bell's "Radio Inside" explores the struggle between faith and flesh, where black-and-white imagery is contrasted with the protagonist's own thoughts presented in the form of music from various radio channels. Copyright: Jeffrey Bell.

Marina Zurkow's "Funeral" is a collage-style work that incorporates images of many different landscapes. Copyright: Marina Zurkow.

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/Funeral211.HTML