All videos by CLAIRE BURCH
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Avenue Street Musicians The Concert at Ashkenaz Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-83-5 / $24.95 A group of Telegraph Avenue street musicians get together to celebrate a C.D. done on a grant to empower the homeless. Their concert at Ashkenaz contains surreal documentary cut-ins that introduce rebellious social issues to the outward reality of their performance. |
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People’s Park Anniversary Series Color / Sound / 120 min ISBN 1-889059-26-9 / $24.95 People’s Park of Berkeley is known world wide because of its connection with the Free Speech Movement of the 60s. This two hour tape presents highlights of the annual event. Much music. |
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Poetry
On Telegraph Avenue Color / Sound / 20 minutes ISBN 1-889059-60-9 / $24.95 The magazine Poetry Flash sponsors a street reading, adjunct to the annual Telegraph Avenue Bookfair. Includes a spirited reading by Diane di Prima and Berkeley poet Charles Pappas. |
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Stranger
on the Planet The Story of Laurie Color / Sound / 30 minutes ISBN 0-916147-58-4 / $24.95 Laurie, who died of an overdose, was one of a huge group of people—strangers on this planet—who were always given what is called a “dual diagnosis,” emotional problems and chemical dependency. You see them wander by, often in some dire emergency, often in pain. They live in a thousand places, go to hospitals for a few days, take a geographical escape often, hoping that a new place will make them better. They need more help than they get, and they need it now. |
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Street
Survivors, More Street Survivors, & History of a Street Survivor Color / Sound / 90 minutes (in three parts, 30 minutes each) ISBN 0-916147-51-7 / $24.95 A compassionate look at the people who go through life’s most intense emotions on the streets of Berkeley, sometimes landing in hospitals, other times simply “expressing themselves” in an area that encourages more differences than the mainstream of American society. |
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Telegraph Avenue Street Calendar LIVE Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-53-3 / $24.95 The filmmaker probes the soul of people on the street with her guerrilla camera and open heart. Includes the “Naked People” of Berkeley. |
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Thumbed
a Ride to Heaven The Music of Alfonia Tims and Others Color / Sound / 40 minutes ISBN 0-916147-74-6 / $24.95 An all-music film which features the music composed and improvised by Alfonia Tims, a young African American musician, along with others. There are powerful visual cut-ins to this brilliant early funk music performed by several jazz musicians. |
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Alfonia Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-32-0 / $24.95 A memorial tribute to Alfonia Tims Jr., an innovative African American jazz musician who died at age 26, three weeks before release of his first highly praised and well received album. Includes early conversations, original music and other documentary material. The second half is titled Anyhow What Was Your Dream, Alfonia? |
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