Skip's Classic Videos

Nine 1971 - 2003 crowd-pleasers, award-winners and critics' choices among the several hundred of Skip Blumberg's classic videos. A mini retrospective of the early productions. City Hall steps 1994 Reel photo: "Show me something GOOD!"

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(2006, 47:15) Video art featurette recorded at the famed artist's memorial service, contains 46 short visually-stylized often-humorous insightful interviews with friends, colleagues, collaborators and protégées; including artists Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneeman, Davidson Gigliotti ...

Experimental movies of surprising virtuouso performances - circus, street, avant-garde and cultural, including juggler Mario Droguett, the Champions, monologuist Todd Alcott, a zany hot cooking performance video in Thailand, and many others. Some have behind-the-scenes coverage and interviews wi...

Experimental movies of surprising virtuouso performances - circus, street, avant-garde and cultural, including Yoko Ono's performance memorializing Nam June Paik, monologues by Todd Alcott, new music performance by David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Alvin Curran, and many others. Some have behind-the-...

Alternative sports and games coverage from diverse cultures, NYC, Alaska, California, Thailand, and the Winter Olympics!

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Twentieth century videos, on the streets, at undiscovered events, observing urban life, surprising performancea, video art, portraits of extraordinary New Yorkers on the fringes. Watch them all in a binge of Big Apple culture! Please see Skip's NYC - Modern History https://skipsnewmovies.vhx.tv/...

Media analysis and commentary. Featuring Barbara Walters, Mike Wallace, Studs Terkel, Gil Scott-Heron, Yoko Ono and Howdy Doody. For media mavens, students, and professors.
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Gallery of screen techniques in a time-based medium. Art history and a 21st century art experience.

Multi-cultural al fresco performances throughout City Hall Park celebrate the re-opening of public access to the northern section 5 years after it was closed by 9/11, including NYC @Councilmember Alan Gerson and CB1 Chair @JulieMenin.

as seen in "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese"*. Raw videotape edited in the camera, including "bicentennial hats," Uncle Sam, Cuban dance performance recorded in one nonstop-moving-handheld-camera three-and-a-half-minute-long take (whew). A quintessential early video d...

In the days after the World Trade Center twin towers collapse, Jemma, a pre-teen who lives in Tribeca a few blocks from the site, bakes & serves healthy cookies to the tired, dusty first responders.

(1991, 1:17) TRAILER IS FREE VIEWING OF COMPLETE EXCERPT
Gil Scott-Heron goes to the deepest and most personal goal of the activist to clear up the message of his hit 1970 song... the first revolution takes place in your mind.

Skip Blumberg's single-person-crew camcorder reporter interview for...

Over the course of more than a year beginning in 1989, Todd Alcott performed eleven short monologues that he had previously written, each in one clip with no cuts, and almost always only one take, particularly when they were recorded in public.

"Dangerous Ideas" collects 10 monologues, with a...

by Jules Backus & Skip Blumberg, 18:45, 1978.
Virtuosic melodic whistlers pucker up and blow in the first ever Whistle-Off. Carson City NV. Host: Al "Jazzbo" Collins.
Whistlers: (in order of appearance included):
Jason Serinus
Nelsen Christiansen
Harvey Pollack
Roy Thoreson
Jimmy Carter
Nancy For...

(3 minutes, 2 channels, b&w, 1974/2021) ***Prime time broadcast on Turner Classic Movies in December 2021 "Archival Screening Night Roadshow." Art video by early indy videomaker Andy Mann & by Videofreex Skip Blumberg showing off virtuosic hand-held camera skills, prescient camera journalism, an...

(1985, 3:52) A zany hot cooking/performance video in Thailand.

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(1975/ 2017, 3:01) by Skip Blumberg and Jane Aaron. Impossible choreography, antic stunts and magical tricks for a pixilating super 8mm camera on location at Stony Clove Notch Pond in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Dancers (in order of appearance): Alice Wexler, Skip Blumberg, Jane Aaron.
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Before Amazon, the Sears Roebuck Catalog's mail order business set a standard for mass production economies of scale. An intimately-recorded personal confrontation between worker and supervisor during a tour of one of the world's longest conveyor belt systems is a metaphor for employment roles. ...

Charles "Cookie" Cook, Brenda Bufalino, and Kevin Ramsey expose the details of tap moves with explosive slo motion uniquely capturing the power of this dance form.

Produced by Leg-o-Mania Productions Susan Goldbetter & Skip Blumberg. © 1990
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Early use of slo and fast motion techniques, colorizing, and reverse play with Olympic synchro swim Olympian Betsy Visniski and Staten Island Aquatics Synchro Swim Team in, on and under water.
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The first of 11 NMA festivals held yearly in cities across the U.S.* Features eight of the more than 100 performances, events and installations, with interviews, documentary footage and excerpts from work by Liz Phillips, Charlie Morrow, Chris Janney, Richard Lerman, David Byrne, Alvin Curran, La...

Disarmament Video Survey (7:45 & 29:00 edits)
This project by 300 producers in the indie videomaker community in the U.S. and internationally addressed the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament
in NYC May - July 1982. The 60 raw tapes with 3000 interviews and several dozen edits were cab...

(2003, 6:44) One of NYC’s best street performance groups is dedicated to good values.

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"Dancing Hands" (excerpts from half-hour TV program) Choreography for fingers, hands and arms.
Producer, director, concept: @SkipBlumberg. Choreographees/performers: @KeithTerry, @GilShalimarKennedy @SteveWigglesClemente @RobertLaFosse @WendyPerrin @HaroldNicholas @BlondellCummings @EllenFisher ...

Walker Art Center-produced performance art in parade format. Featuring 100 kids kicking cans lead by artist @DonaldLipski and six other nationally-recognized artists' moving artwork collaborating with different aged kids, who are progressively older as the parade goes by, from kindergarten thru h...

Six expert interviewers discuss curiosity, honesty, empathy, truth & their techniques. See all 7 segments.
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(1992, 2:34) "Are you ready for this?" Bold rhythmic cheer by the Champions, a performance group of young girls on location in NYC L.E.S. housing project.

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(1985, 51:30, complete program) TV’s Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel, National Public Radio’s Susan Stamberg, NYC Police Detective Sean Grennan, and psycho-analyst Dr. Joel Kovel are interviewed about curiosity, style, trickery, truth and conve...

(1996, 5:58) On the festive convention floor, cable TV owners and operators go shopping. An early one-person-crew camera journalist's report.

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A compelling street performers attracts a crowd on lower Broadway until the NYPD arrives.
An entertaining, early camera journalist report.
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(1980/2010, 7:30) Early 3-channel art video (recently restored and combined on one channel). The repetition of urban action becomes a symphony of rhythms, building to cacophony and back. Produced with 12 Twin Cities video artists at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis. Installation in IDS Center’s Cryst...

(1980, 28:44) This real-life comedy focuses on the adventures of 55-year-old ski jumping, Olympics super-fan Murphy at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid. A colorful close-up look at this exciting international event that contains all the whooshes and whacks that ABC Sports missed. Producer/dir...

(1985, 27:56) Thailand’s Elephant Festival features an elephant soccer game, elephant tug-of-war, elephant speed and agility races, elephant training, working elephants and a village where elephants are kept as pets. A tourist event that aims to preserve the elephant training culture.

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(1983, 27:08) Exciting and unique ancient arctic sports such as blanket toss, high kicks, and knuckle-hop are featured in this cultural doc about modern Eskimos and Indians in Alaska.

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(12:45) Skip Blumberg's short camera-journalism mini-doc report about an in-the-ocean protest by Surfrider Foundation, an environmental group dedicated to conservation of the world's beaches, with more than 200 surfers in the water against jetties and development at Bolsa Chica CA. The campaign ...

(2005, 2:06) To repay the volunteer efforts of Louisianans who came to help recovery in the neighborhood of the World Trade Center after the collapse, Bob Townley's Manhattan Youth community center hosts a fund-raiser for Hurricane Katrina victims on the rebuilt pier that loaded the debris from t...

(2005, 2:06) Lower Manhattan residents deliver words of hope & strength to their compatriots in the damaged zone. With on-camera correspondent Cookie Girl Jemma Brown.

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(2005, 2:25) A NYC firefighter articulating his message to the Katrina Recovery gives insight to why firefighters are regarded as heroes.

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(1993/ 2018, 6:25) A non-violent action disrupts weekend traffic during the height of the AIDS scourge; look for 2-second clips of poet Eileen Myles & NYC politician Tom Duane's civil disobedience.

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(2012, 17:36) A professionally-directed collaboration of very special performers, all with developmental disabilities, as they create, rehearse and perform to an enthusiastic audience at NYC’s Central Park Bandshell. A behind-the-scenes entertainment and a portrait of a model program.

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(1981, 29:15) All the big tricks, speed, laughs, and tears of championship rope jumping. 3 NYC Emmy’s, Black Programming Consortium Best Cultural Program, TV Critics' Favorite TV Shows, and many others. A classic video doc.

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(1986, 3:58) On-camera correspondent Skip Blumberg reports on Korean traditional and avant garde culture for Nam June Paik's 1986 3-country live TV extravaganza "Bye Bye Kipling" broadcast on PBS, KBS and NHK.

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(1992/ 2018, 3:09) NYC's first semi-nude political demonstration for the right to be topless. Outside Madison Square Garden during the 1992 Democratic Presidential Convention

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(1992, 51:08) The streets of NYC landscape is the focus for Blumberg's curious camera as a one-person crew... and he delivers by finding the amazing among the commonplace. As video art it is an achievement of street video with the grit and the heart of urban life and serendipitous discovery captu...

(1990 /2002, 11:26) A humorous and ironic non-fiction first-person travel art video by camcorder correspondent Skip Blumberg. It's a culture clash as a group of high-living American art aficionados (including collectors Mera and Donald Rubell, curators David Ross and Branka Bogdanov, and artist R...

(1976,5:20) High contrast analysis of juggling is an early art video starring circus juggler Mario Droguett.

Black silhouettes on hot white background causes after-images in the eye, not the screen. Then we explore the Sarasota, FL backyard home of a circus performing family. The relationship be...

(1989-92, 40:00) “Living in Flames,” “Jaws of Love,” “Paradise,” and 7 other biting and comedic monologues by super-talented Downtown performer and writer, Todd Alcott.

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(1992, 5:24) Ever lost your keys? Did it change your life?

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(1989, 3:50) Is he acting? or a real lunatic on the street? Rated R: language.

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(1990; 1:53) An instant classic fulfills the cliché of what the talking television is really thinking... and forcefully demanding... that you should only watch the screen.
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All complete movies. "Sort by... " returns to opening sort. Sort by Alphabetical and (Longest first) Duration.

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