2 x 16mm

Black TV is about perception in the intermedia network. It generates a pervasive atmosphere of the process-level perception by which most of us experience the contemporary environment. Since it involves the use of multiple monitors and various levels of video distortion, there is a sense of the massive simultaneity inherent in the nature of electronic media communication. Black TV is one of the first aesthetic statements on the subject of the intermedia network as nature, possibly the only such statement in film form. (Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema)

Black TV is about the future, the contemporary American, the media, the injustice, the witnessing of events, and the expansion of the senses. The act of communication and the experience is the essential. (Aldo Tambellini, quoted in Expanded Cinema)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Expanded Cinema: A Tribute to Gene Youngblood’s Book 2