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History in these Streets
A short documentary about the Black Panther Legacy tours of West Oakland and the sites of historical significance that the City of Oakland has chosen to ignore. 7 minutes.
Garden for the Future
During California’s severe drought there are different efforts for water conservation. Garden for the Environment is teaching people that water conscious gardening and awareness of urban agriculture can help preserve our water one drop at a time.Â
Momo
An observational documentary about two Tibetan refugees living in North India and their daily routine of making steamed dumplings to sell at a town market. For a delicious momo recipe and all things Tibetan visit, YoWangdu Tibetan and World Gift Shop http://www.yowangdu.com/tibet/tibetan-food-recipes/tibetan-dumplings.html
David Byrne at The Exploratorium 1991
The Preservation department, at bavc.org, has started cleaning and digitizing the Exploratorium's video collection. http://www.exploratorium.edu/Â David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician and artist. He is perhaps best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in a variety of media, including film, photography, opera, and Internet-based projects. Â
The Beastie Boys Live At The Kitchen In NYC 1983
The Kitchen is a non-profit art space in New York City originally founded in 1971 in Greenwich Village. It takes its name from its original location in the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center. It was initially intended as a space for the exhibition of video art, the Kitchen soon expanded to include other forms of art including performance, exhibition, music and dance. Notable Kitchen alumni include Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Rocco Di Pietro, John Moran, Peter Greenaway, Ridge Theater, The Future Sound of London, Leisure Class, Brian Eno, and Cindy Sherman and many more. In this clip we get an inside [...]
Preservation Access Program: Round 4 Clipreel
The Preservation Access Program began with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to offer subsidized video and audio preservation services to artists and small to mid-sized arts and cultural heritage organizations. This is a highlight reel of what BAVC Media Preservation was able to preserve in our 4th round of our Preservation Access Program in Spring of 2015.
Introduction to AVCompass
This free online resource from the Bay Area Video Coalition will give you direction in organizing, preserving, seeing and appreciating your audiovisual collection. From the unruly media room of your archive to the small box of tapes sitting in your home collecting dust, AV Compass will provide the basic tools you need to move forward in saving your films, tapes, discs and files for the long-term. http://bavc.org/
