TV220 Collection

TV220 averaged two episodes a month within a standard half-hour time slot, though the duration fluctuated based on the content received. This collection consists of an incomplete set of over 90 TV220 episodes, originally airing 1996 to 2004. TV220 was produced by AS220 and distributed by Cox Communications as a Public, Education & Government (PEG Channel) cable-access television program from 1996-2004. This collection consists of videos of the program, digitized from VHS tapes. Initially the program was edited at the Cox Cable studios, but AS220 purchased used S-VHS equipment and a Commodore Amiga S-VHS Video Toaster to produce and edit in-house and then deliver the final recording to Cox Cable.
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Items in this collection

TV220 May-June 2003

TV220 May-June 2003

Providence Public Library

Contents include two episodes of TV220. The first episode (aired in May 2003) includes "Artists Rhode Island" a mock television talk show covering the art scene in Rhode Island, featuring an interview with and demonstration by a performance artist (00:07); a very short cartoon called "Martin's Life" by Adam Stanforth (09:17); "I'm thinking," video footage of a woman driving, visiting a cemetery, and discussing her love life (09:35); "The White Man" by Ed de Boo, footage of a man performing a song critiquing America, pollution, and war in front of the Textron building (11:50); a cartoon called "Welcome Friend" by Adam Stanforth (16:47); "CAT 9" a neon-filtered music video involving a large skein of yarn being dragged in front of cats (17:17); "Sunny Day," a claymation film (20:42); "Green Magic," footage of a woman dressed in green and playing with green teacups and flowers (21:43); "Girl of Color Plays Ball," footage of a girl bouncing a ball edited to appear as different colors (26:57); "Visions of Egypt," a short clip of a man walking through a desert (29:42). The second episode (aired in June 2003) includes part one of "Toilet Treatments" by Jay Critchley, a film about a colorblind saleswoman who stays in a septic tank bunker and co-hosts a television talk show about digestion and pooping (31:25); and a series of very short animations by Ed de Boo, including "The White Man's Gas," "The White Man's Country," "The Goddess and the White Man," and "The Inquisition," the last of which shows a white man being repeatedly asked by an off-camera voice "Are you a racist?" and responding in an increasingly belligerent manner (55:47).

TV220 March-April 2003

TV220 March-April 2003

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Peace of the White Man," a video critiquing the military and its intersections with racism by Ed de Boo (00:00:04); "Gumby Finds a Plot!," an episode of the Gumby Show, in which a little animated character moves to Hollywood in search of a show with a plot line (00:02:47); "Purchased by Love," a series of videos by Providence Dirt Newsreel, including "Foxwood Loves Roger Williiams," which presents a satirical critique of contemporary commercialization of Roger Williams as a symbol of Rhode Island's supposedly peaceful founding (00:05:34), "Providence Place Mall Prison," which critiques the school-to-prison pipeline and the corporatism of private prisons (00:12:34), "The Chicken and the Chip," a video about an advertising executive whose gas station TV ads are sabotaged by a Rhode Island Red rooster with an implanted computer chip (00:15:40), and "Genius Artist At Large," which is about a mayor's initiative to select a genius artist who will inspire an artistic renaissance in Providence (00:19:39); The Sinister Minister," footage of a "sermon" given by mock minister at a party, accompanied by organ music (00:24:06); a short comedic clip about Madonna (00:30:12); "The Hunted Hunter?," a silent film about a hunter besieged by strange woodland creatures (00:31:09); "Steven's In This Movie (and Ed's not!)," a silent film about two women who are held hostage and rescued (00:34:11); a trailer for "Central Falls Vice Squad," featuring footage of Central Falls (00:37:02); an ad for Jell-O, featuring a musical performance (00:37:46); an ad for the animal kingdom version of a TV show (00:39:18); a voiceover played over an infomercial for Sports Illustrated (00:39:48); "I Spry," a silent action film (00:41:42); and "Toilet Treatments" by Jay Critchley, a film about a woman who lives in an underground bunker and does marketing for an anti-constipation dance program (00:44:37).

TV220 June 2003

TV220 June 2003

Providence Public Library

Contents include part one of "Toilet Treatments" by Jay Critchley, a film about a colorblind saleswoman who stays in a septic tank bunker and co-hosts a television talk show about digestion and pooping (0:00) and a series of very short animations by Ed de Boo, including "The White Man's Gas," "The White Man's Country," "The Goddess and the White Man," and "The Inquisition," the last of which shows a white man being repeatedly asked by an off-camera voice "Are you a racist?" and responding in an increasingly belligerent manner (24:15).

TV220 July 2003

TV220 July 2003

Providence Public Library

Contents include a brief mock advertisement ridiculing Madonna (0:00); "The Hunted Hunter?," a video of a hunter who finds people dressed as birds in the woods and shoots them (1:09); "Steven's In This Movie (and Ed's Not)," a silent film in which two young women are kidnapped and then saved by a young man (4:12); a brief advertisement for a television show called "Central Falls Vice Squad" (7:05); an advertisement for Jell-O chocolate pudding (7:49); a dubbed advertisement for Sports Illustrated subscriptions (9:20); "I Spry," a silent film about a robbery by pickpockets who drive away in a getaway car (11:42); "Toilet Treatments" by Jay Critchley, a surrealist short film about a woman named Katrina who works for a company that makes videos to help people with their bowel movements (14:34); "Single Wet Female," a film made at PS 122 in New York in October 2002, in which a series of experiments related to gender norms are performed on women playing baby girls (30:52); an experimental black and white film by Idle Hands Workshop called Image Test #0317182001-1 (34:20); a series of advertisements, including those for a play called "Sexotheque," Leilani under eye cream, and Wellmusol, a medication that treats Klein disease (37:58); "Call Me Back (& 4th)," an experimental black and white short film by Idle Hands Workshop (41:05); "Murray Hill: Caught in the Act," a sped-up montage of a man getting in trouble and eating until he feels sick and falls down the stairs (44:17); an advertisement for "Yea!" deodorant, in which a man on the subway repulses a beautiful woman with his armpit stains and body odor (48:15); "Test Subjective: Effects of Negative Video Feedback," an experimental short film with multiple television screens and a person in a gas mask watching them, as well as optical illusions produced by repeating images of a gun and a skeleton (49:15).

TV220 Episode 98

TV220 Episode 98

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Contents include a performance by World of Wrong, featuring a number of chaotic musical performances, including one in which people in orange jumpsuits devolve into fighting and one in which a woman in all silver brandishes a whip and blindfolds another person (0:41).

TV220 Episode 97

TV220 Episode 97

Providence Public Library

Contents include a series of short art films by Tara L. Cavanaugh, including "Emptiness of Nothingness" (0:40), "Motion Painting" (2:40), and "People Patterns" (3:34); a series of short animations and comedic films by Adam Ansorge, including "Me and My Light Saber" (4:37), "Disk-OH!" (04:55), "Big-Ass-Pants (trailer)," "Scrambled Eggs" (7:01), "Anxietems: An Anxiety Antibiotic" (12:36), and "Irrelevant Dog" (17:30); "Heavenly Conventions," a film made of collaged found footage about heaven, death, and the afterlife by VR Johnson (19:45); footage of the Fools Ball, featuring a pretend minister (25:02).

TV220 Episode 96

TV220 Episode 96

Providence Public Library

Contents include footage of live performances by Spogga interspersed with footage of him playing guitar at home (0:41).

TV220 Episode 94

TV220 Episode 94

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Heavenly Conventions," a film made of collaged found footage about heaven, death, and the afterlife by VR Johnson (0:42); "Majestic" by Frank Difficult, a series of animated and superhero videos, including "Ozark Spook Lights, V.Box 'V'" and "Tokolytic, V. Box 'C'" (6:15); "Barnacled" by Frank Difficult, a video of people playing instruments haphazardly in orange jumpsuits (8:43); footage of a performance by the band, The Secret Monks (24:16).

TV220 Episode 93

TV220 Episode 93

Providence Public Library

Contents include a seminar at URI facilitated by Dana Neugent centering on the philosophy of education, standardized education, and special education. The students in the class are engaged in discussion on the subject material throughout.

TV220 Episode 90

TV220 Episode 90

Providence Public Library

Contents include a continuation of the performance by World of Wrong, featuring a woman in a nurse costume speaking inaudibly and backed by discordant saxophone playing, a speech about the notion of "wrong," a sermon by a pharmacologist, and a man in an orange jumpsuit yelling aggressively (0:41).

TV220 Episode 9 Return to Providence

TV220 Episode 9 Return to Providence

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Contents include footage of a man playing musical instruments that is edited so it looks like three people playing at once (00:42); an edited video of art installation process (2:57); an interview with Jonathan Thomas by Umberto Crenca about playing music on junk objects and drumming (7:35); an excerpt from "Clit Notes" by performance artist Holly Hughes (10:42); an interview with Holly Hughes, who was one of the four artists awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts that Senator Jesse Helms denied in the famous 1990s debates about funding for the arts, particularly controversial art and what Hughes calls "art about the body" (11:37); footage from the 1997 AS220 Fool's Ball (21:53).

TV220 Episode 8 Return to Providence

TV220 Episode 8 Return to Providence

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Contents include excerpts from "Fried Fleas and Monkey Boys" by Keith Munslow, including live cartoon drawing , performance art, and a reading of a poem about a character named Tex who eats fried fleas (00:56); spoken word poetry by Ray Davey (07:21); footage of Randolph Hostetler playing piano with an eight ball (11:01); more spoken word poetry and a plug for the Providence poetry slam by Ray Davey (13:00); footage of "Shockra" performing live at the Worcester Artist Group in 1990 (16:09); a short segment called "Look out the Window," feat. footage from out of a window and interrupted by a plug for AS220's Fool's Ball (18:29); footage from the opening of Naru-Bunka: Seven Days in Japan, an art show featuring textiles by Arlene Wilson (18:53); "Meatballs Fluxus: The Liver Dance," in which someone plays accordion music and several men get slapped in the face with raw liver (22:01); "Continuing Adventures of Red Bandana Boy," a kit feat. play fighting between a person and a puppet (23:53); footage of Keith Munslow playing the piano and singing a song about not liking fish (26:36).

TV220 Episode 77

TV220 Episode 77

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Nosey Joe & A Cold Pole," footage of people wandering around downtown Providence in costumes from RISD Creature Creations 2000 with a long, extended tongue that gets stuck to a freezing telephone pole (0:43); a mock commercial for the Disney Channel by Terry Crandall, who speaks in a garbled Donald Duck voice (3:30); "Tunnel Vision," an experimental film by ForceField (04:03); an experimental film by Daniel Lefcourt, featuring blurred footage of people walking down crowded streets (16:15).

TV220 Episode 76

TV220 Episode 76

Providence Public Library

Contents include a continuation of a short film titled "House of Lords" by Heather Sylvester that dramatizes drug dealing, in which a cop murders a priest and arrests the dealer (0:42); footage from New Year's Eve 2001 punk show and performance of "The Lightning Bolt" (08:23); "Wrinkles Takes a Walk," footage of people in strange, alien-like costumes walking around Providence, from RISD Creature Creations 2000 (11:37); a mock television commercial for Ocean State Cleaning Service by Terry Crandall (13:17); "001," a swirling, abstract animation by Heather Sylvester (13:47); "Untitled Kathy," "The Untitled Beat," and "Socks," a series of short films by T. Lee (18:46); "Shotgun Solution," an animation comprised of distorted video footage by Heather Sylvester (20:52).

TV220 Episode 75

TV220 Episode 75

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Content warning: Short film "House of Lords" includes depictions of drug use throughout. Contents of full episode includes Part 1 of a short film titled "House of Lords" by Heather Sylvester that dramatizes drug use and drug-dealing and features a cross-dressing, cocaine-dealing priest in Boston, Massachusetts. Includes shots of the Green Line subway, Kenmore Square and Allston.

TV220 Episode 74

TV220 Episode 74

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Contents include "Spinning Hippo, Crawling Baby (da revolution)," a stop-motion animation by Ailie Rutherford (0:41); a commercial break by Terry Crandall, featuring an ad for The Copy Shop in the Granite Street Shopping Center (09:17); "I Think You Are Insane," animation and soundtrack by Heather Sylvester, featuring footage taken while driving and eerie sounds (09:48); "Under Wraps," a film by Ambush at Junction Rock , featuring broken guitars and a murder in the woods (17:50); "Moving Pictures," abstract animations and music by Heather Sylvester (24:05).

TV220 Episode 71

TV220 Episode 71

Providence Public Library

Content warning: Segment "Bingo #1" includes racialized, homophobic and pedophilia content about people of Papua New Guinea. Contents of the full episode include an excerpt from "Bingo #1" by the Providence Film Group, in which a person talks about male homosexuality in Papua New Guinea (0:42); "The Venerable K.C.," a documentary about Tibetan refugees who founded a Buddhist monastery, The Kagudpa Monastery, in Southern India, by Kelly Riley & Kelly Garner (1:42).

TV220 Episode 70

TV220 Episode 70

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Content warning: Segments "Pie Eating 101" and "Melissa Puke" both contain footage of vomiting; Segment "Bingo #1" includes racialized, anti-transgender & homophobic content about people of Papua New Guinea. Contents of the full episode include footage of Hear in Rhode Island (2000), an outdoor music festival at the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park (0:42); "Commercial Break" by Terry Crandall, an advertisement for Gentile's Supermarket in Westerly (18:37); "Pie Eating 101: 101 Years of Pie" by Ben Coonley, footage of an 1897 pie eating context edited alongside footage of one in 1998 [content warning: graphic vomiting] (19:06); "Commercial Break," another advertisement for Gentile's Supermarket by Terry Crandall (21:46); "Melissa Puke" by the Pork Chop Lounge, footage of a woman puking while being yelled at by a man [content warning: graphic vomiting] (22:15); excerpt from "Bingo #1" by the Providence Film Group in which a person talks about fictionalized sexual norms in New Guinea (23:32).

TV220 Episode 7

TV220 Episode 7

Providence Public Library

Contents include "CAPTL by Richard Goulis, a one person theatrical satire depicting the inner and outer lives of politicians. This fast-paced, ten minute object theater piece is performed to a prerecorded soundtrack. It includes appearances by Mr. Gladhand, Dr. Hide, Mummified American, Baby Humvee, and Mommy Suckasaurus, among others. The performance shown here was done at Perishable Theatre, Providence, RI, on March 21, 2003, just before the start of the Iraq War" (0:00:11); footage from the awards ceremony for "bush in 30 seconds," a video competition critiquing the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, including a rendition of the national anthem on electric guitar and the following videos: "Polygraph" (14:12 ), "In My Country" (14:57), "Child's Pay" (15:37), "Imagine" (16:35), "What are we teaching our Children?" (17:47), "Wake Up America" (18:26), "Desktop" (19:10), "Army of One" (20:00), "Bankrupt" (20:45), "Hood Robbin" (21:36), "Brother, Can You Spare a Job?" (22:09), "Yeehaw!" (22:47), "What I Been Up To... " (23:25), "School Yard Politics" (24:05), "Bush Knew" (24:44), "Al Keyda" (25:22), "Pop Quiz" (26:04), "Bring It On" (26:38), "Bush Sucks" (27:10), "Greatest Hits" (27:54), "If Parents Acted Like Bush" (28:34), and "If the Bush administration was your roommate" (29:07).

TV220 Episode 7

TV220 Episode 7

Providence Public Library

Contents include footage of a parade of costumed musicians and performers from AS220's First Annual Fool's Ball Marching Mob, 1995 (0:42); a puppet show rendition of a lion-tamer act presented by "The Lunchcart Circus" (5:53); footage of a trumpet performance edited so that one person is show playing three different parts at once, titled "3 Shawn Set" (8:58); a short video about three extraterrestrial creatures who call themselves "space heroes," excerpted from RISD's Creature Creation Class, 1997 (9:58); more footage of puppet show, "The Lunchcart Circus" (14:07); footage of an excerpt of a performance piece called "Off the Corner," in which a person dances almost naked on stage amidst sounds of laughter (15:05); footage of an empty street and two people who the camera operator asks, "How do you feel about being oddly normal?" (16:15); information about AS220 and what it means to be an unjuried space (17:59); Gerard Heroux playing French horn (19:44); more footage of "The Lunchcart Circus," a "miniature tabletop puppet circus," featuring Crabby the Clown (20:01); footage of people wearing masks and a giant puppet (21:37); a music video for "She Said" by The Rhythm Party (22:23); more footage of "The Lunchcart Circus," featuring Madame Frambois and her poodle Fifi (25:28); an excerpt of a performance called "Yesterday Variations," featuring seated tap dancing and singing (26:24).

TV220 Episode 69

TV220 Episode 69

Providence Public Library

Contents include a video mashup by EBN featuring clips of George W. Bush and others (0:00:41); an absurdist and nihilist black and white film about a man facing executioners by Kim Morreale (0:04:21).

TV220 Episode 68

TV220 Episode 68

Providence Public Library

Content warning: Video segment for TV220 includes racialized caricature of a Turkish man at 0:20:21. Contents include a music video by EBN, featuring news footage and footage from movies (0:41); "Bay 50th" a film about a brief romance in a deli, by Kim Morreale (4:58); TV220 insert by Terry Crandall (20:21) (21:08); "Chin's Addiction," a film about a dog with an addiction to dog bones by Pat McElroy; "Bits and Pieces of the Kitchen," a film about household objects and foodstuffs by T. Lee (23:43); credits animation by Heather Sylvester (25:11).

TV220 Episode 67

TV220 Episode 67

Providence Public Library

Content warning: Video segment "Bingo #1" includes themes of homophobia and discussion of pornography at 0:04:00. Contents of full episode include "Behavior Modification/We Will Rock You", a music video made using pieced-together and remixed found footage by EBN, featuring presidential addresses by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (0:41); an excerpt from "Bingo #1," a comedy video by Mark Elliot and the Providence Film Group (4:00); "Dirty," a film about a man hoping to erase his individuality, his personhood, and every trace of his past life, by Teddy Lee and Emily Maclaren (7:19); "John's Deli," a lesbian romance film set in a deli by Kim Morreale (19:41).

TV220 Episode 66

TV220 Episode 66

Providence Public Library

Content warning: Video segment of "Bingo #1" includes homophobic slurs and anti-Black racism at 0:01:56. Contents of the full episode include "I Will Teach You," a music video made using pieced-together and remixed found footage and audio clips about robotic weaponry by EBN (0:41); an excerpt from "Bingo #1" by Mark Elliot and The Providence Film Group (1:56); "The Jack L.," a film about a loud man in a cowboy hat who likes to party by Julie McGetrick (3:25); "Bits & Pieces of the Kitchen," a black and white film of food items and household objects by T. Lee (15:53); "Archie," a film about a woman who misses the late actor Cary Grant and is unwilling to be in a real relationship, by Kim Morreale (17:38).

TV220 Episode 65

TV220 Episode 65

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Station Identification" by EBN, a music video made using pieced-together and remixed found footage and audio clips (0:42); "Video Mandalas," an animated video by Dr. T (1:53); "The Bearded Lady," a dramatic telling of a love story played over footage of a person with a beard wearing a dress, by the Circus of the Performative Object (6:14); "The Project," a detective film about a femme fatale casting director by Plan B Productions (7:20); "The Rat Circus," footage of rats on a tightrope by Jamie Verinis (23:30).

TV220 Episode 64

TV220 Episode 64

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Don't Back Down," a collaged music video by EBN (0:41); "Video Mandalas," an animated video by Dr. T (3:04); "The Juggler," a video of an easily-frustrated and volatile juggler, by the Circus of the Performative Object (11:09); "The Rat Circus," a video of a rat crossing a tightrope, by Jamie Verinis (12:35); "The Farting Evangelist," an anonymous video found by Tom Paulus (17:18); "AS220 Video Concierge," an advertisement for AS220 and Providence's underground arts scene by Spot Digital Video (20:51); "Randy," a video clip of a coach screaming by Dana Neugent (24:54).

TV220 Episode 63

TV220 Episode 63

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Psychoactive Drugs," a collaged video by Emergency Broadcast Network (0:41); "Video Mandalas," an animation by Dr. T (4:51); an excerpt from "Cloud Seeding," an art film by the Circus of the Performative Object (12:13)); "It's a Nut," a short video of a person spinning a basketball, by Colin Asquith (14:01); "Heather's Mid Term Exam," verbal film analysis and animation by Heather Sylvester, with music by Kenn Gauvin (15:08); a preview of "Philip, Fed-Ex, Phed," a 5 Film in which a person is "addicted" to nuts (19:35).

TV220 Episode 62

TV220 Episode 62

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Get Down, Get Down," a collaged music video by EBN (0:42); "Video Mandalas," an animation by Dr. T (3:37); an excerpt from "Cloud Seeding" by The Circus of the Performative Object (11:22); "Folsom Ave," a film containing a parody of a fight scene, by Colin Asquith (12:24); a short clip of Jim Benson poking something through his hand, from the "Pork Chop Lounge Movie" by John Lavall (14:21); "Ghost of a Chance," an eerie animation by Heather Sylvester with music by Kenn Gauvin (15:09); "Home Alone III," a comedic spoof by Terry Crandall (19:00).

TV220 Episode 61

TV220 Episode 61

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Contents include "Self Portrait with Hat," an animated video by Dr. T (0:58); "Cholesterol," a short film montage of foods high in cholesterol by Martha Colburn (2:45); "Say Goodbye," a music video by Jimmy Jack Stark (3:41); "Transmissions From Jelly Seed Man," a wintery black and white film by T. Lee (6:20); Miscellaneous video footage by Frank Difficult, paired with miscellaneous audio by V Majestic (12:57); "The White Man," film commentary on white masculinity by Ed de Boo (23:27).

TV220 Episode 60

TV220 Episode 60

Providence Public Library

Contents include "Sign Pulse with Unsafe Sax," an animation by Dr T. With music by Neil Leonard (0:44); Preview to "Eleven Eleven," a trailer for a tongue-in-cheek film about marital issues (05:58); Excerpts from "Cloud Seeding," a performance by 'The Circus of the Performance Object' & Franklin Furnace Fundwinners (10:22); "Godzilla' Movie" by Raphael Lyon, a recreation of Godzilla using toys in a sandbox and other objects (11:39); "Blind Cornbread" and "Spot of Tea" with Terry Crandall, two musical sketches by Dana Neugent (17:43); "Drowning," an animation by Heather Sylvester (23:06).