Music + Video Volume 1 | 1980’s
1980 : 39 minutes
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Director: John Sanborn
synopsis
A series of seven innovative music+video experiments from the 1980s, many broadcast on the original Nightflight, but still surprising and compelling today. Created with Kit Fitzgerald, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem, Bill T. Jones, Mary Perillo and Eric Bogosian. Entropy and Order (3:34) Ear to the Ground (4:26) ACT III (6:28) And Now this (5:10) Static and Episode (5:38) Siberia (3:44) Untitled (10:44)
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