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Marie-Jo Lafontaine Interview
‘This is a Television Receiver’ (BBC Arena Programme on Video Art) 1976
Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening work for their special Arena video art programme. First transmitted March 10, 1976.
‘Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, …
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