Echo park [videorecording] / by John Arvanites. [1980]

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Echo park [videorecording] / by John Arvanites. [1980]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84648695

Set in Echo Park, a neighborhood bordering downtown Los Angeles, the narrator of the video Echo park escapes from the trap of his soured life by learning the history of his new home. In the process, the viewer explores with him the contemporary conditions of the city, from the sweatshops on Glendale Boulevard, the ironies of palm trees and Chevys side by side, and the expression of freedom and motion in a girl's gymnastic team as they flip through space.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original. (2 copies)

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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...