Fwd: tank tv news letter

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> From: "tank.tv" <[email protected]>
> Date: April 19, 2004 6:42:55 AM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: tank tv news letter
>
>
> Walking down the street last month, a big man stopped in front of me
> staring
> with grey eyes. He asked if I could carry him on my back, but he was
> such a big
> guy it would have been very difficult, I was quite scared, though, so
> I said
> yes. He squashed me, he was so heavy that the pavement broke. I ended
> up in
> someonea?Ts basement with the big man next to me. In front of me,
> there was a
> skinny lady on a stage doing some magic trick to a small audience. It
> was then I
> thought that this month Tank TV should be tricks, spring and magic…
>
> This montha?Ts story on Tank TV is sensation, absurdities, tricks and=

> springs.
>
> http://tank.tv
>
>
> TANK TV NEWS LETTER
>
> April 2004
>
> Why does film or videos have to be only be in cinemas and galleries? A
> VIDEO GALLERY, A television for the web, exhibiting peoplea?Ts ideas
> and visually interesting moving images, Tank TV is a showcase for the
> best of this new material. It functions as an inspirational
> alternative to what is offered to us at present.
>
> A 3 minute interview with Belgian artist Jacques Charlier:
>
> When/ why did you start using video as a medium?
> My work is a big mix of mediums. The medium is always chosen according
> to the idea I have of creating a piece. The support really depends on
> the idea I have of what I want to present.
> The first time I used film was for the Paris Biennial in 1971, when I
> was commissioned to make a film on Belgian artists. I then used the
> video to make short stories. Due to the specific properties of that
> medium, it was an easy quick way to record comedy sketches.
>
> What was your idea behind a?oThanks For Coming?a?