Join us for a #TBT look at MOCAtv videos and previously produced video footage, shared through our social channels for a screening night at home!
For this week’s Movie Night, we are showcasing four MOCAtv videos from the archives featuring the life and work of artist Bruce Conner (1933–2008). Before MTV and Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" there was Conner. A kaleidoscopic draftsman and assemblage artist associated with the Beats in San Francisco, Conner was the first to edit film to popular music in an ecstatic collage of atomic Americana. With subsequent films set to music by punk and new wave artists, his formal innovations—frenetic high-speed editing, recycled found footage, and physical exertion on the film itself—would come to define the modern music video.
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