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In 1979, Hollywood Reporter correspondent and aspiring filmmaker John Dorr made his first feature using nothing more than a Betamax VCR and a borrowed bank security camera and began a revolution. Within four years, he’d make three additional features and launch EZTV: a production co-op and first-of-its-kind “Video Gallery” with regular weekly programming akin to what we’d now call a microcinema. From more traditional narrative dramas, comedies, horror, erotica, and documentaries to an increasing emphasis on cutting-edge video, digital, and performance art, EZTV provided the space and equipment for independent artists of all stripes and backgrounds to realize their visions.
Designed as a companion to the series EZTV: Alternative Visions from West Hollywood (running at Anthology Film Archives from August 15th through the 20th), Depths of Field: Rare Tapes from EZTV offers a diverse sampling of the hundreds of in-house and outside productions that played at EZTV’s screening space during the first decade of its existence. From experimental narratives (Dreamland Court) and concert documentaries (D.U.I.: The Movie) to cyberpunk (Radio World), queer horror (Mantra), and new age comedies (The Case of the Missing Consciousness) and beyond, Depths of Field is a testament to the sheer breadth of work that graced EZTV’s CRTs and Videobeam projector.
Programmed and co-presented by Elizabeth Purchell and Hollywood Entertainment
Thank you: Michael J. Masucci, Ken Camp, James Williams, John Hays, Matthew Causey, Reg Oberlag, Dan Sallitt, Spike Stewart, Strawn Bovee, Pat Miller, Jackie Forsyte, Jessica G.Z., Erik Varho, Pascaline Morincome, Sibylle De Laurens, Gaspard Nectoux, Loni Shibuyama, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Archives.