'Video! Video! I'm in love.''

‘We were so high on this stuff. It was like ‘Video! Video! I’m in love.”
From the psychedelic light shows of the 1960’s to the heady, early days of experimental video art and New York’s nascent Soho Scene to today’s techno underground, ‘Video Out’ explores the world of live video.
Underground artists and entertainers from today’s club and rave scene talk about their creative roots, their tribulations and their dreams. Madame Chao recalls a narrow escape from incineration in a mylar bubble at the hands of a flamethrower-wielding drug addict. Bill Etra recalls his physiological experiments on human beings at his performances. The stunning, otherworldly work of these space age light artists plays throughout, interspersed with recollections and odd technical details, along with the inevitable complaints and heartbreak of a life spent in an art form that’s still thought of as ‘wallpaper.’
A broken cable causes a signature special effect, artists from across the spectrum talk about their obsession with knobs and buttons, early video pioneers recall making things up as they went along. All this andmore, as avant-garde video artists and clubland VJ’s tell the story of live video art over the last thirty years.
At times funny, at others poignant, ‘Video Out’ follows a crooked path of triumph and disaster, all while following the muse of light art. ‘Most VJ’s are dangerous loners,’ Feedbuck says, ‘the main thing we have in common is that we’re all attracted to that bright, shining rectangle up there on the wall.’

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