Thursday evening, 22 May, saw the culmination of the second OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM for Arts Law Week 2008. Some where in the vicinity of 70 - 80 people took themselves to the Horse Bazaar to view the four short videos our sixteen … Continue Reading ››
Prepared for and presented at the OPEN CHANNEL Launch, SHED 4, celebrating just over 3 decades of public access video and independent film production and development in Victoria.
Tonight we enter the fourth decade of one of Victoria's most enduring cultural institutions... Peter Lane, Chair of C31, and I have just spent several weeks in its … Continue Reading ››
Preamble prepared for FRAMED #02, lunchtime seminar series from OPEN CHANNEL in association with AFTRS and Digital Harbour.
How video got online
In a tiny New York hotel room sometime in the mid-80s three youthful and hopeful gentlemen sat together dreaming up ways and means to bring information about environmental degradation, climate change, human rights abuses, including … Continue Reading ››
Prepared by Melinda Maillard and myself for OPEN CHANNEL's Love Your Work! Short Film Audience Choice Awards, 20 Dec, 2006, Cinema Nova.
Welcome! My name is Andrew Garton. Im the Program Director at OPEN CHANNEL and I would like to thank you all very much for joining us here tonight at our annual members short film … Continue Reading ››
A 2006-2010 statement drafted for a revision of the OPEN CHANNEL Co-operative, as a Media Culture Centre based at SHED 4, Docklands.
OPEN CHANNEL is 32 years old in 2006. In recent years it has struggled to sustain itself, but despite all odds it has survived and continues to enjoy considerable support from the community it … Continue Reading ››
Thursday evening, 22 May, saw the culmination of the second OPEN CHANNEL VIDEO SLAM for Arts Law Week 2008. Some where in the vicinity of 70 - 80 people took themselves to the Horse Bazaar to view the four short videos our sixteen … Continue Reading ››