Chapter 5: The Docents

1983, 12:20 min, color, sound

Muntadas states: "Art, as part of our time, culture and society, shares and is affected by rules, structures and tics, like other economic, political and social systems in our society. Between the Frames is a series of eight chapters about people and institutions located between the artist and the audience."

Participants: Docents from the Long Beach Museum of Art and The Newport Harbor Art Museum. Jan Lahey, Claudia Wishnow, Mary Drobny. Kathleen Byrnes, Russel Moore, Ellen Breitman, Kathy Delap, Barbara Stewart.

Produced by MUNTADAS 1983-1991. Camera: Caterina Borelli, Kate Craig, Steve O'rear, Ted Hardin, Art Nomura. Production/post-production: Bruce Tovsky, Ted Hardin, Joe Leonardi, Philippe Lavaill, Josep Maria Vilardosa, Jordi Agusti, Aleix Gallardet, Luis Nicolau, Larry Loganbill, Tim V.S. Westbury, Irit Batsry, Walter Zooi, Jayce Salloum, Alessandro Meodia, John Barnett, Jordi Torrent, Doug Brown, Hank Bull, Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Barnaby Levy. Special Thanks: Kathy Huffman, Lorne Falk, Lori Zippay, Melodie Calvert, Martine Bour, Antoni Mercader, Bill Horrigan, Mireia Sentis, Chip Lord, Danielle Tilkin, Susan Harris, Fern Bayer, Barbara London, Kira Perov, Manami Fujimori, Steven Vitiello, Marhsall Reese, Joan Rabascall, Jean Luc Saumade, Enrique Riu, Christian Courreges, H. Goed, Giovanna Zamboni, Maia Giacobbe Borelli, Peter D'angostino, Angel Shaw, Sherman George, Doug Walla, James R. Blattenberger, United Mcgill Corp., Columbus City Center, Nationwide One Plaza, Columbus Caltrans, Los Angeles Freeway, International House of Japan, The Docents from the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Newport Harbor Museum. Executive Producer: Caterina Borelli. With the collaboration of C.A.V.S. - E.V.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Visual Arts - Media Studies - Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego; Honolulu Academy of Art, Radio, Cinema and Television Dept. Temple University, Philadelphia; Canal Video-Videografia, Barcelona; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; The Station, Long Beach Museum of Art; Wester Front, Vancouver Art Studio - Media Arts, The Banff Centre, Banff; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus. Partially funded by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; The New York State Council for the Arts; Generalitat de Catalunya, Department de Cultura - Serveis Audiovisuals; Long Beach Museum - Video Program; Command de I'Etat - Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1990, France. A videotape by MUNTADAS @ 1991.

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1983-91, 259:57 min, color, sound