Night 5 of VIDEO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: 45 YEARS OF EZTV IN LA, Lesbian Erotic Video, presented by Hollywood Entertainment and Elizabeth Purchell at Whammy!

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Founded by John Dorr in 1979, EZTV was created as an independent art space dedicated to video and, eventually, digital and performance art. Video Capital of the World is a weeklong screening and performance series honoring the diverse range of artists and communitites that have found a home at EZTV over the first 45 years of its existence and the global influence that it has had on the development of video, digital and performance art.

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Lesbian Erotic Video

Founded by On Our Backs magazine founders Nan Kinney and Deborah Sundahl at the height of the lesbian sex wars of the 80s, Fatale Video was one of, if not the very first companies dedicated to making erotic videos by and for lesbians. When a program featuring Fatale’s first two shorts—Private Pleasures and Shadows—caused a riot (!) at the 1985 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Video Festival, festival programmer and EZTV associate John Canaly decided to bring them to the Video Gallery at the end of September 1985. This kind of programming would eventually lead to some of the more high-minded critics and video artists of the era to give the space the dismissive (and perhaps a bit homophobic) nickname, SleazyTV.

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For this special one-off screening, we’ll be playing a preserved copy of the original tape assembled for this program’s run at EZTV, with all of the original shorts, trailers, and snipes intact.

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9:45 PM DOORS

10 PM SCREENING

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Co-presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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THIS SCREENING HAS SOLD OUT VIA PRE-SALE. As always we will accommodate a stand-by line once doors open to fill in seats from no-shows, of which there typically are a few.