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Carry Gorney

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_77947
Date: 2016
Location: Unknown
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:36:37
Format: Digital file
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Carry Gorney is an artist, writer and psychotherapist currently living between London and Eastern France. She worked in community arts and video from 1968. Among her many initiatives, she developed the use of video for community participation.

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00:00 Screenings and Sausage Rolls 01:07 Studying drama at Manchester University in the early 1960s 03:00 Working at the Manchester Library Theatre and discovering improvisation 04:16 Moving to London in 1967 in search of the alternative arts scene 05:45 Meeting Ed Berman and starting to work with children and young people 07:15 Using video for the first time with mothers and babies a Family Service Unit (FSU) 09:14 Inter-Action Arts 11:12 On the road with the Inter-Action Community Media Van 13:03 Defying Infrastructure - taking art to the streets and in to peoples homes 14:46 Mobility and the ownership of Community Video material 17:31 Inter-Action in Milton Keynes 19:20 Sweet 16 21:14 Working with Channel 40 - The Milton Keynes community cable TV network 21:54 Debating the value open access TV with Channel 40 22:39 Making Women Talking and Thing That Mother Never Told Us 26:29 The women’s movement & facilitating discussions on female identity 29:05 Becoming a participant 31:24 The Community Video Movement - a male dominated movement? 33:37 From Milton Keynes to Long Beach California 34:49 Using video again as a family therapist in the NHS

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Camera: Siobhan Schwartzberg
Interviewer: Rosie Saunders
Editor: Rosie Saunders
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