Released
Hands Across the Border
January 1 1978 (almost 47 years ago)Rating
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- Directors: Liza Bear, Sharon Levett, Paul Wong, Peggy Cady, Robin Winters, Sharon Grace, Randall Lyon, Gus Nelson, Willoughby Sharp, Daryl Lacey, Jorge Zontal, Chas Leckie, Bill Bartlett, Felix Partz
- Countries: Canada, United States of America
- Companies: Video Inn Vancouver, Televista Projects, Video Free America, Open Space Films, General Idea, Center for New Art Activities
Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.