Paul Garrin Videoworks: Volume 1

Paul Garrin

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Activism, Image Processing, Music Video, Videoworks

Garrin advocates the use of video as an activist and community tool and a means for people to represent themselves. These three pieces examine the Tompkins Square riots, police harassment, and the use of home video equipment to record a truly democratic local news.

“Once ‘Big Brother’ was the state watching the people, now the people can begin watching the state.”

—Paul Garrin

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Paul Garrin

Free Society

1988| 00:04:00

Free Society is a short experimental music video that juxtaposes images of police harrassment in the U.S. with images of the military quelling revolutionary opposition. Includes comments from…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Image Processing, Music, Politics

Paul Garrin

Man with a Video Camera

1988| 00:06:03

After an all-night session of editing Free Society, Garrin headed home with video-8 camera in-hand, only to happen upon the Tompkins Square riots. As police tried to enforce a curfew aimed at…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Activism, Crime or Violence, Documentary, Media Analysis, City, State, The

Paul Garrin

Reverse Big Brother

1990| 00:01:00

This alternative commercial promotes the aggressive democratic use of home video equipment to record local news of community activism and other events that don’t make the headlines for political…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Activism

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