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Jon Dovey

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_00641
Date: 2016
Location: Beyond London
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:31:01
Format: Digital file
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Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at UWE, Bristol. After leaving University in 1978 he worked at what was first called ‘Two Boroughs Video Project’ and then Oval Video from 1979–1982 with the video pioneer Nick Fry. Oval Video was based at the Oval House Theatre and worked across South London.

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00:00 Start 00:05 There wasn’t one method or approach 03:33 Oval video 1979 – 1982 05:38 Performance Art, Video and Radical Theatre 08:29 Video camera technology : the Portapak and instant playback - a revolutionary moment 11:52 Fight the cuts, 1980 13:45 Primitive video editing technology 15:49 Developments in technology and theory - Understanding the medium 19:08 Watch out! There’s a Queer about, 1981 21:37 Go For It! 1982 22:12 The Community Video Network & the London Filmmakers Co-op 25:51 Funding as Community Arts 27:05 Video Broadcast and TV 28:05 The Birth of Channel Four 29:51 From Community Video to Scratch Video 31:48 From Scratch Video to Academia

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Camera: Zoe Kinross
Interviewer: Rosie Saunders
Editor: Rosie Saunders
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