Steve Seid, media curator and writer, and Michael Campos-Quinn, Director of Library Special Projects at the BAMPFA Film Library and Study Center, introduce the TVTV project and FOUR MORE YEARS, and screen a selection of TVTV outtakes recently preserved by BAMPFA, as part of Alternative Visions 2020.

Steve Seid and Michael Campos-Quinn on TVTV and FOUR MORE YEARS

Steve Seid, media curator and writer, and Michael Campos-Quinn, Director of Library Special Projects at the BAMPFA Film Library and Study Center, introduce the TVTV project and FOUR MORE YEARS, and screen a selection of TVTV outtakes recently preserved by BAMPFA, as part of ALTERNATIVE VISIONS 2020.

Rental fee: $12Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications. “Instead of stand-up reportage or sit-down analysis we wanted to see if TV could cover politics by letting people and events speak for themselves.”—a TVTV member In the sixties, it would have been obvious to say the mass media dictated what was newsworthy. But how does one rebut such a self-serving, monolithic system? One gesture was to turn portable video technology toward alternative documentation of the historical ferment. And so it was that in the early seventies Michael Shamberg, Megan Williams, and Allen Rucker formed Top Value Television (TVTV) and set out to show that dissident, raggedy mediamaking could serve as a DIY solution. TVTV’s start point was auspicious—the 1972 presidential conventions. Their ragtag camera crews wandered the events, gathering overlooked stories with a frankness the networks shunned.&nbsp;Four More Years&nbsp;is TVTV’s glimpse of the GOP convention with Nixon up for reelection. Inside the arena, a highly orchestrated political event is delivered, while outside antiwar protesters lean toward anarchy. TVTV’s offhanded confabs with network icons like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite convey the humdrum nature of this prepackaged spectacle. Also included in this streaming program are a handful of never-before-seen TVTV outtakes restored by a BAMPFA preservation project. Essays, interviews, and further information about this project are available at&nbsp;<a href="https://guerrillatv.bampfa.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Preserving Guerrilla Television</a>. —Steve Seid

Four More Years

The dissident mediamakers of TVTV deliver a ragtag report from the 1972 Republican presidential convention, with Nixon up for reelection. Plus never-before-seen TVTV outtakes recently restored by BAMPFA.

A live conversation recorded on October 21, 2020 with TVTV cofounders Allen Rucker and Megan Williams and media curator and writer Steve Seid.

Four More Years Livestream Conversation

A live conversation recorded on October 21, 2020 with TVTV cofounders Allen Rucker and Megan Williams and media curator and writer Steve Seid.

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