My friend Rodney made this access tv video comp that will be playing in San Francisco this weekend. I made some faux crappy-video interstitial titles for it. Should be fun.
What would life be like without public access television? Unfortunately many communities have had to find out the hard way. We’ve lost many wacked-out gems due to cancellation or just the transient nature of public access programming, but thanks to obsessive collectors of pop culture ephemera there is a goldmine of lo-fi creativity to be found in the back catalogue of now-defunct public access stations. Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has put together an exclusive show for SF Indie that celebrates the weird and wonderful world of public access from San Francisco and beyond. Clips include SF fave Burn My Eye, the early Guy Maddin post-apocalypse show Survival, the anarchic Jerkbeast, musical interludes from the amazing R. Stevie Moore, talk shows, call-in shows, and more public access preachers than you can shake a stick at. Culled from rare, hard-to-find sources much of which is unavailable online or otherwise, fans of Found and TV Carnage would do well to check out this schizophrenic TV assault!
via San Francisco Independent Film Festival + Winter Music Festival 2010 : Access Denied.