The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz will present a Hudson Valley sneak preview of the new documentary film Here Come the Videofreex this Wednesday - June 24th at 7 p.m. at the Rosendale Theatre, in Rosendale, N.Y.
The film uses archival footage and new interviews to tell the story of the pioneering group of video-makers and media activists. In 1972, the Videofreex collective launched America’s first pirate TV station, Lanesville TV, at Maple Tree Farm in the Catskills hamlet of Lanesville with a transmitter bartered by Abbie Hoffman.
One of those video-makers was our dear friend, Parry Teasdale, Editor and publisher of The Columbia Paper in Ghent. He joins us this morning to show how their story offers a hopeful view of how independent voices can make themselves heard.
