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BRUCE TOLLEY

Born: Kew, Victoria, 1938 …

Artist: Marr Grounds,Filmmakers: Jim Dale, Colin Hawke,Production: University of Sydney TV Service
A study in (social) evolution beginning with the moment when amphibious creatures (vertebrates) came out of the water (here, to mate) ...

Grandma Rose, Elsie Mae and Lottie
3/4” U-matic colour video, sound, 38mins.
Produced by Kimble Rendall and Carole Sklan.
Studio sequences produced at Paddington Video Access, Paddington Town Hall,
The video was shown at Videozone, July 9, 1978, Video Mayfair, May 1979 and included in the travelling collection Videotapes From Australia, 1979-80
Short biogs of the producers from the Videotapes From Australia catalogue.
Kimble Rendall: Arts degree in Education and mass media …

QUEENSLAND DOSSIER

by Jeune Pritchard and Luce Pelissier

Format: 3/4” colour video …

Super-8 film and ¾” video, colour, sound, 30 mins,
Artist/director: Marr Grounds in collaboration with Paul Pholeros
Department of Architecture, University of Sydney
 
[Grounds notes] “This film was made on location at the three top ends of Australia from June through August 1977 …

Work shown in the touring exhibition Videotapes from Australia
circa Bush Video and beyond .. ...

THE GREATEST ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THE COUNTRY’S EVER KNOWN (1977)
The Media Collective:
Sam Bienstock; Alessandro Cavadini; Fabio Cavadini; Lee Chittick; Paul Frame; Debbie Michaels; Carolyn Strachan; Suzie Walker; Tom Zubrycki.

[From the catalogue of Videotapes From Australia1]

On November 11, 1975, the then Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed from his position by the Queen’s representative, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, and his Labor government replaced by a caretaker Liberal government.

This was the culmination of many months of intensive political manoeuvring by the opposition Liberal Party and Liberal supporters …

Colour, PAL, video and sound synthesis tapes, 37 mins and 38 mins.
Performed: Melbourne, 1977; La Trobe Uni, 1978; Sydney, 1979; Venice Biennale, 1980; New Music America Festival, Hartford, 1984
(Available format: ¾ inch PAL U-matic master; DVD – remasterd 2008 by Stephen Jones)
Nocturnal B-4:6:7
Nocturnal B is a visual music composition that has “a traditional structure …

A REPORT ON THE TOUR OFVIDEOTAPES FROM AUSTRALIAIN NORTH AMERICA, November 1979 – March 1980.
In April, 1978, Jorge Glusberg of the Centro de Arte y Communicacion (CAYC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, visited Sydney and asked me to compile a collection of Australian videotapes to send to Buenos Aires as an exchange project with the CAYC ...