Here Come the Videofreex (2015)

Here Come the Videofreex plot

In 1968 Sony introduced the first portable video camera, the PortaPak. A number of people seized the new medium to tell their own stories and to offer an alternative to powerful channels like CBS. They wanted to show the 'real world', not the manipulated TV reality. They joined forces and founded the collective Videofreex, because "we were different, we were freaks". From 1969 to 1974, they took to the streets every day to capture the burgeoning American counterculture: they attended Woodstock, anti-Vietnam demonstrations, women's movement rallies and student strikes. 'The radicals' worked for a while at the influential CBS, but they shied away from a report about the Black Panthers. To earn some money, they pioneered video projections at concerts. They also started a local pirate channel with news for and by the inhabitants of the village where the collective stayed.

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