"Electric Eyes" was a touring package of British Video tapes distributed by the Film and Video Umbrella. Aiming to group together tapes following broadly similar themes or narrative and aesthetic approaches, the tapes map out the underlying trends and variety of practices in current British video art. The full package consists of four programmes: those selected for screening at the Video Positive '89 festival, are the two most sharply contrasting.


The "Electric Eyes" programmes will be screened together with two programmes of local work: 'Reflections From The 'Pool'. This programme is introduced by the essay by Jacqueline Morrissey that follows this listing.


The Home Front:
The talk 'louder/talk faster' aesthetic represented in the first programme is countered by these artists who harness the qualities of stillness, slowness and duration, and use innovative narrative devices to reflect on domestic and cultural surroundings. Notice the predominance of women and black film and video makers in this programme; far from using television as source material, these tapes address collective identities and consciousness ignored by the mainstream media and the dominant ideology it represents.


Electric Eyes Programme 2: The Home Front


Catherine Elwes: 'Winter/Spring'
Graham Young: 'Accidents In The Home'
Mona Hatoum: 'Measures of Distance'
Sankofa: 'Territories' (originated on film)
Prathiba Parma: 'Sari Red'

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"Electric Eyes" was a touring package of British Video tapes distributed by the Film and Video Umbrella. Aiming to group together tapes following broadly similar themes or narrative and aesthetic approaches, the tapes map out the underlying trends and variety of practices in current British video art. The full package consists of four programmes: those selected for screening at the Video Positive '89 festival, are the two most sharply contrasting.


The "Electric Eyes" programmes will be screened together with two programmes of local work: 'Reflections From The 'Pool'. This programme is introduced by the essay by Jacqueline Morrissey that follows this listing.


The Home Front:
The talk 'louder/talk faster' aesthetic represented in the first programme is countered by these artists who harness the qualities of stillness, slowness and duration, and use innovative narrative devices to reflect on domestic and cultural surroundings. Notice the predominance of women and black film and video makers in this programme; far from using television as source material, these tapes address collective identities and consciousness ignored by the mainstream media and the dominant ideology it represents.


Electric Eyes Programme 2: The Home Front


Catherine Elwes: 'Winter/Spring'
Graham Young: 'Accidents In The Home'
Mona Hatoum: 'Measures of Distance'
Sankofa: 'Territories' (originated on film)
Prathiba Parma: 'Sari Red'