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- Published: 20 Jan 2010
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Name | Michael Shamberg |
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Birth date | 1945 |
Birth place | Chicago, Illinois |
In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1972, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. The collective believed new technology could effect social change.
Shamberg preferred the term Guerrilla television (the title of his 1971 book), because despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, Guerrilla television is non-violent. He saw Guerrilla television as a means to break through the barriers imposed by Broadcast television, which he called beast television.
The group urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, introduced in 1968, to be merged with the documentary film style and television, and later pioneering the use of 3/4" video in their works. Shamberg will co-produce with Stacey Sher the film adaption of the British novel Paul Is Undead.
Shamberg has a long association with influential Manchester group New Order and produced numerous music videos for the band after meeting them in New York in 1980 - including clips directed by filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Jonathan Demme.
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