MFAH Film Houston Premieres: Here Come the Videofreex (Thursday & Sunday)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another in its Houston Premieres series. Enjoy these critically acclaimed, award-winning international films as they make their Houston debut!

Here Come the VideofreexHere Come the Videofreex

Directed by Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin
2015, USA
79 minutes, DCP

Thursday’s screening introduced by Tish Stringer, filmmaker and activist.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a group of renegade journalists, the Videofreex, democratized the media, using handheld video cameras to record the world around them. This film taps into a treasure chest of restored tapes shot by the Freex, including interviews with activists Fred Hampton and Abbie Hoffman. These innovators changed the nature of journalism, forging a legacy that has evolved into today’s all-access media environment.

About the speaker: Tish Stringer is an anthropologist, media maker, curator and user of endangered technologies.  She is currently a Lecturer in Film Production and the Film Program Manager in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University.

Tish holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rice University and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Anthropology and Cultural Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her graduate research and dissertation, Move! Guerrilla Media, Collaborative Modes, and the Tactics of Radical Media Making focused on radical filmmaking collectives working in and with social movements.

Tish has presented her work in academic, arts, and activist contexts throughout the U.S. and the world.

Community partner: Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP).

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/videofreexfilm