Cusco [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1976]

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Cusco [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1976]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123472552

This two-channel video combines images of village life in Cuzco, Peru, with textual "subtitles" recounting Chilean artist Juan Downey's childhood fantasies, fueled by foreign movies and music, about the world "overseas where the beautiful people lived and had real fun." The soundtrack mixes environmental sounds, songs, conversation fragments, and excerpted interviews in Spanish with English subtitles.

2 videocassettes of 2 (U-Matic) (ca. 40 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...