February 21st, 2008
work-in-progress documentary on Bill Etra
Benton-C Bainbridge and Minou Maguna have been shooting interviews with Bill Etra for years and, for the past year and a half, have been assembling a documentary about his life and work. The “sampler cut” below highlights some of the more recent interview footage interspersed with some of Bill’s work over the years. If you don’t know of Bill, he is a pioneer in video engineering, design and performance, and one of the handful of people who can rightly be said to have been the first to do live visuals. This Wired article from 2000 gives a pretty good background.
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March 17th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Great work Benton and Minou !
I hope this message reaches you, anxiously waiting for the final release !
I hope Bill’s health progresses for the better, we need more documentaries about pioneers like him..
Best,
Kaya Hacaloglu Cotton AV Istanbul, Turkey
March 18th, 2010 at 5:11 am
My co-lab Kaya’s right! This is really monumental work that have to be kept as a reference for future artists that is interested in visual art and live performance. Hope Bill gets better and’ll be here to see it finished.
Beautiful work Benton and Minou!!!
Ozan Akinci Cotton AV Istanbul, Turkey