One of largest video archives from Latin America is the one that Karen Ranucci put together and run during almost 20 years. She told me recently that because of economic constraints LAVA (Latin American Video Archive) had to close its doors. If people are interested in contacting Karen, who is working at Democracy Now!, they should contact her (this message is copied to Karen).
As for Videaizmut, I also participated in one of the early meetings, when Alan Ambrossi was there, but I cannot remember much of it and I don’t have my own archives with me right now. You can also write Alan if you want to know more about it. I’m also copying this to him.
The person representing SEWA was probably Renuka Bery or Sally Stuart. See more here: http://www.c4c.org/india.html
IPAL doesn’t exist anymore and Rafael Roncagliolo is very busy doing other things. I don’t know what happened with the video archives, but I can ask him if there is further interest.
I hope the above details are useful.
Alfonso
From: "Rodriguez, Clemencia" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Rodriguez, Clemencia" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:06:54 -0600
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Conversation: Videazimut
Subject: Videazimut
English below.
Español: se ha venido dando una conversación bastante interesante (desafortunadamente en inglés nada más) sobre lo que pasó con Videazimut desde 1997. Parece ser que esta organziación fue muy importante en su momento para muchos de [log in to unmask] Alguien tiene información sobre Videazimut o guarda producciones?
En mi experiencia Videazimut también jugó un papel importante: hacia 1990, no recuerdo exactamente la fecha, tuve la oportunidad de asistir a una reunión de Videazimut en Montreal, Canada. Recuero que allí estaba Rafael Roncagliolo (quien en el IPAL tenía la mayor colección de video alternativo en esa época), estaba la mujer de SEWA, cómo se llama? Y Alan Ambrosi. Después se publicó un libro sobre esta conferencia que se llamó "Video, The Changing World."
English: Videazimut also played a significant role in my experience. I remember a meeting around 1990 in Montreal where, for the first time, I was able to see the "international community" of alternative video (I was familiar with the Latin Americans, but had no idea this was also a global thing). Rafael Roncagliolo was there, and also the woman from SEWA- India (can't remember her name). By the way, Rafael had the largest collection of Latin American alternative video in IPAL, his organziation in Peru. No idea what happened with that archive. Later a book about the conference--"Video, The Changing World" was published.
Clemencia Rodriguez
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