Spring Break
Group offers video outlet to independents
Lorien Nettleton
Issue date: 2/18/04 Section: Life & Arts
While the music scene in Denver has, in many respects, given way to the big conglomerated world of the music industry, other areas of independent creative expression have opened up. Denver is currently seeing a renaissance of independent film and video production. Fueled by support from an underground art-house crowd, there are several public venues that regularly make independent local film and video available to the public.
And now this scene has a broadcast outlet. To more fully publicize local art, Heather Dalton, Sherry Hern, and Alison Hill have created Dropframe, an hourlong monthly showcase of independent video productions for KBDI, Denver's channel 12. Featuring newsgathering, film, and music videos, Executive Producer Heather Dalton is looking to pick up the cutting edge programming with Dropframe where she left off with Teletunes in the late '90s.
"We really want to encapsulate that video is an art-form," Dalton says. "[At many local showings] documentarians have been left out, producers of independent music videos, people who are doing film for art pieces have no platform in a broadcast arena to showcase their work, and we think that's just as valid as film."
This pilot episode - scheduled to premiere at 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 21 - features a blend of satirical film commentary, music videos, a human rights documentary, and narrative shorts. The blend is a deliberate direction to air information from many different sources.
"There is a definite political aspect behind the show as well," says Dalton. "We want to highlight humanitarian aims, and we're really focused on a lot of documentary stuff that we want to be of quality.
"It's kind of in the spirit of Teletunes. We're trying to reclaim the underground through that, and we're hoping to have kind of the same atmosphere. And (Teletunes) was volunteer for over 20 years."
After seeing defeat of the long-running independent music show, Dalton worked in a variety of artistic formats before turning to digital video.
And now this scene has a broadcast outlet. To more fully publicize local art, Heather Dalton, Sherry Hern, and Alison Hill have created Dropframe, an hourlong monthly showcase of independent video productions for KBDI, Denver's channel 12. Featuring newsgathering, film, and music videos, Executive Producer Heather Dalton is looking to pick up the cutting edge programming with Dropframe where she left off with Teletunes in the late '90s.
"We really want to encapsulate that video is an art-form," Dalton says. "[At many local showings] documentarians have been left out, producers of independent music videos, people who are doing film for art pieces have no platform in a broadcast arena to showcase their work, and we think that's just as valid as film."
This pilot episode - scheduled to premiere at 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 21 - features a blend of satirical film commentary, music videos, a human rights documentary, and narrative shorts. The blend is a deliberate direction to air information from many different sources.
"There is a definite political aspect behind the show as well," says Dalton. "We want to highlight humanitarian aims, and we're really focused on a lot of documentary stuff that we want to be of quality.
"It's kind of in the spirit of Teletunes. We're trying to reclaim the underground through that, and we're hoping to have kind of the same atmosphere. And (Teletunes) was volunteer for over 20 years."
After seeing defeat of the long-running independent music show, Dalton worked in a variety of artistic formats before turning to digital video.
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