Moving [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1974]

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Moving [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1974]

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Moving is part documentary, part videographic experiment. Shot with a Portapak during artist Juan Downey's journey through North and South America, it is also a diaristic "road video." As he travels from New England to California with artists Willoughby Sharp and Frank Gillette, then by train through the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, and finally to the southern tip of Chile, Downey describes both his physical journey and his continually shifting state of being.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (30 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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Sharp, Willoughby, 1936-2008

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Downey, Juan

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Gillette, Frank, 1941-

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Long Beach museum of art

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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...