Show threadDr. Dani SanchezMar 11, 2025
You might remember “Alive! From Off Center” from our #LaEsoterica tribute to the 80s/90s PBS arts show from last August (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfsoSF_qUHvLp1ESXq0NUMLI&si=y1wLILdi00WGxTGi)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezMar 11, 2025
The “Words in Your Face” episode of “Alive! From Off Center” features some famous faces like rapper & 90s reality TV star Heather B., actor & activist John Leguizamo, rapper & artist KRO-One and Deaf artist Peter Cook
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezMar 11, 2025
Next we have a 1991 episode of “Alive! From Off Center” featuring poetry and spoken-word performances (https://youtu.be/HY7pKQ-Imco?si=enJ0h9KvkNyVN4rs)
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"Words In Your Face" from "Alive From Off Center"

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
Nowadays you can literally buy a greenscreen kit for kids!
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
Yes. It’s based around the infamous scene from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet masterpiece “Battleship Potemkin”
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
“Steps” directed by Polish experimental filmmaker and writer Zbigniew Rybczynski (https://youtu.be/EB5fzxvY0Ps?si=VvHcxtu_yzDoZniK) is one of the series most famous episodes.
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Dr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
Recently Ann Magnusson had a role on “Star Trek: Picard” as Admiral Clancy and we saw her in Tom Rubnitz’s “Made for TV” on last year’s #LaEsoterica “Pride” episode (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfsRv3A4tHwu1CNKjXZBg6ou&si=9MDvKjKcv6JfHkY5)
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Dr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
I took a course on making video art at the Glassell School and to think that this (likely the Quantel PaintBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox) was the cutting edge of computer graphics in the 80s and that now you could make this on your phone just blows my mind
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Quantel Paintbox - Wikipedia

Show threadDr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
Another episode from 1986: “Young Video Artists” (https://youtu.be/K-rsNIzk6uE?si=7iLIS9AjoXq5Fz3S) features video art by Teddy Dibble, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Max Almy, and Ben Bergery.
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Dr. Dani SanchezAug 27, 2024
Sorry if the picture quality is lacking (especially if you’re casting this to your tv). Unfortunately, these episodes have some of the best quality I could find b/c neither the series nor most of the films and performances have ever been remastered
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