Hands Across the Border

Name: Hands Across the Border
Released: 1978-01-01

1978, English. Directed by Liza Bear & Sharon Levett & Paul Wong & Peggy Cady & Robin Winters & Sharon Grace & Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson & Willoughby Sharp & Daryl Lacey & Jorge Zontal & Chas Leckie & Bill Bartlett & Felix Partz.

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.

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Language: English
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Released: 1 January 1978
Country: Canada, United States of America

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Hands Across the Border (1978) was directed by Liza Bear and Sharon Levett and Paul Wong and Peggy Cady and Robin Winters and Sharon Grace and Randall Lyon and Gus Nelson and Willoughby Sharp and Daryl Lacey and Jorge Zontal and Chas Leckie and Bill Bartlett and Felix Partz.