26 & 27 JUNE 2004

Set It Off: A Takeover

Electric Studios & Ritzy Cinema, Brixton

Curated by Lina Dzuverovic - Russell

Video Home: Come On

Have you ever made a video of a local event, community group, your friends, travel/ holidays, family, sports, music activity, loved ones, demonstrations or speeches? It could be something joyful, sad, funny or informative, but it should be something you have made because it felt important to record that part of life.

How about we try to bring a lot of parts of those videos together. Things that people have made in this neighborhood. Then we could build an archive of video footage that shows clips from all of these events. Why? because these are some of the extraordinary actions that shape our lives and sense of community and ourselves.

We will get things started, by organising a way to make a copy of parts of these videos, at the Electric studios over the two days of the 'Set It Off: A Takeover' weekend. But we want to include your recordings, from your tapes. Could you bring your tape and we would copy part of it, and then give it back to you? Then the clips will be included in a big collection of video clips with your name and comments alongside.

When we have edited everything together, we can show you all the other clips. You are also invited to help with editing. You can bring your tape to the Electric studios or mail it there, or contact me by email emma@andiwilldo.net, or we can meet, or to know more about the project, you can visit the website www.electra-productions.com/videohome.htm. The tapes should be either mini dv, vhs, video 8 or Hi8 format.

Try to find the clips that you think would be good to include, and that you are comfortable about sharing.