ASWAT Ensemble

HOW THE ARCH GOT ITS SHAPE

Mathematician Robert Osserman explores the math behind the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

TV of Tomorrow Show 2010

A trailer created to promote featured video content–interviews, roundtable discussions, lectures–recorded by VFA at the TV of Tomorrow 2010 Tradeshow.

Philo T. Farnsworth

“Video is a fugitive medium,” said Getty Research Institute’s Glenn R. Phillips, and he should know. As curator for “California Video,” running at the Getty through June 8, he enjoyed the luxury of a massive archive produced during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The challenge: Most of the tapes, recorded in obsolete formats, were crusted [...]

Illuminating Sweeney

“When I was very young I discovered that my mother’s mirrored wardrobe doors could be positioned to reflect back into each other. I placed my head between the mirrors and was amazed to see the chorus line of heads repeating to infinity in each direction. I reveled in the illusion.”

My Father Sold Studebakers

Described by the New York Times as “an extraordinarily personal essay that struggles to explain and understand what went wrong in [the director's] relationship with his father, Ray, a car dealer,” My Father Sold Studebakers is an auto-biographical work in which the artist reveals a wealth of familial relationships and problems. The tape is comprised [...]

My Mother Married Wilbur Stump

My Mother Married Wilbur Stump is a video family album compiled by Skip Sweeney, a founder of San Francisco’s Video Free America, an alternative media facility. Mr. Sweeney seems to have spent the greater part of his life recording the equivalent of home movies starring his parents and assorted siblings. One result is ”My Father [...]