Independent America: New Film 1978-1988 (1988)

“Independent America: New Film 1978-1988 is an overview of personal, experimental American filmmaking of the past decade. Though some of these films have achieved modest theatrical success, most are distinctly non-commercial. Many are hard to categorize, ignoring established boundaries within ‘fiction’, ‘documentary’, ‘avant-garde’, and ‘animation’, labels that have had the harmful effect of creating ghettoes within the larger ghetto of independent film. There is enormous diversity among the 147 films included in this survey.” (from the Introduction)

The exhibition was held on October 7 – November 11, 1988.

With texts by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Steve Anker, Berenice Reynaud, David Schwartz.

Edited by David Schwartz
Publisher American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 1988
93 pages
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Commentary: Jonathan Rosenbaum (2009).

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Infermental 7: A Travelling Exhibition of World Video (1988)

“Infermental 7, compiled in 1988 in Buffalo, New York, is a 5 hour travelling video exhibition, presenting the work of 58 artists, selected from a field of over 400 submissions from 30 countries. It has been a privilege for myself and the other editors to review such a diverse field of work and to participate in the ongoing Infermental videomagazine project, initiated by Gábor and Vera Bódy in 1980 in Berlin.” (Chris Hill)

Buffalo, New York Edition
Edited, and with texts by Chris Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Weibel
Supervisor Rotraut Pape
Publishers Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, with Ars Electronica, Linz, 1988
ISBN 0936739118
28 pages
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Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner (1948)

Introduction by Herbert Read
Texts by Ruth Olson and Abraham Chanin
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948
83 pages

Publisher (incl. press release and installation views)

PDF (updated on 2016-9-18, via MoMA)
multiple formats (Archive.org)