Guerrilla Television

ゲリラ・テレビジョン / late 1960s–1980s / Style / Experimental Film

A media movement in which small collectives used portable video to oppose broadcast authority and one-way communication, recording demonstrations, communities, and institutions for rapid editing and alternative circulation. Low resolution, handheld access, feedback, direct titles, and multiple viewpoints became its language.

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At a glance

Visual cues

Low-resolution portable video, trails, clipping, and dropouts
Long handheld records embedded in events
Handwritten cards, coarse electronic type, and direct time or place labels
Split screens, feedback, and reshooting that dismantle broadcast images

Best used for

Making viewpoint and production process visible in civic media
Composing several field records with electronic titles and transmission traces

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Dictionary entry

Type: State place, time, and speaker with coarse electronic type or cards; never borrow a station identity to fake authority.
Composition: Keep field footage primary and use split screen, reshooting, or feedback only to expose conflicting viewpoints.
Material: Retain portable-video resolution, location sound, and tape loss instead of applying one uniform malfunction filter.
Caution: VHS noise alone does not create counter-media. Name the makers, community, circulation, and consent, and do not imitate real stations or emergency broadcasts.
Further study: Raindance Corporation and Radical Software / TVTV, Ant Farm and portable video collectives / community media and counter-broadcast networks

Related entries

Video Synthesis (ビデオ・シンセシス)Same Experimental Film lineage.Compare Guerrilla Television and Video Synthesis
Conceptual Art (コンセプチュアル・アート)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Guerrilla Television and Conceptual Art

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