[NetBehaviour] Stan VanDerBeek: Violence Sonata / The History of Violence in America (1969-70).

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Thu Nov 22 12:53:39 CET 2012


Stan VanDerBeek: Violence Sonata / The History of Violence in America 
(1969-70).

Stan VanDerBeek was part of the “Rockefeller Artists-in-Television” 
residency program at Boston public television station WGBH from 
1969–1970, during which time he produced the simulcast television 
program Violence Sonata. The program, directed by David Atwood and Fred 
Barzyk, was transmitted simultaneously on both Channels 2 and 44 on 
January 12, 1970, with the suggestion that viewers place two television 
sets side-by-side. Following sonata form, the piece is composed of three 
segments: “Man,” “Man to Woman,” and “Man to Man.” The simultaneous 
broadcast consisted of material VanDerBeek composed from previous films, 
archival and newsreel footage, video shot in Boston for the show, and 
filmed collages, further manipulated and enhanced through overlays and 
color saturation. Sections of the broadcast were played before a live 
studio audience, with actors also performing a play written by 
VanDerBeek for the show. Home viewers were encouraged to call in their 
responses to the program between the acts. The series of collages 
entitled, The History of Violence in America was conceived as layouts 
for reproduction and publication in a booklet to accompany the broadcast.

via http://www.stanvanderbeek.com/

video excerpt (Violence Sonata)
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/ntw-mla000126-stan-vanderbeek-s-violence-sonata

Download (Violence Sonata – script, photo documentation, sketches, 
collages, reviews)
http://monoskop.org/images/3/3c/Vanderbeek_Stan_Violence_Sonata.pdf

Download (The History of Violence in America, 22 pages)
http://monoskop.org/images/6/60/Vanderbeek_Stan_History_of_Violence.pdf



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