The
26th of October 1984, the first videocollective was organized in Israel
by Natan Karczmar at the occasion of Artcom Israel 84, a symposium on
the Esthetics of communication held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem,
the Haifa Museum and tzavta Tel Aviv.
Since then, Natan Karczmar
has organized videocollectives in many countries and more recently, in
2002, a partnership has been established with the International
Videoformes Festival in Clermont Ferrand, France, were the
videocollectives produced in the world are shown each year during the
March festival. Videoformes has also become a permanent archive for
these videos.
The videocollectives have a duration of 3 minutes
of footage and 10 seconds of titles. The videomaker is free to film any
subject whenever and wherever he or she wishes. The manner is either
experimental (video art), documentary, fiction, animation, or a mixing
of these styles. The format is DV.
In 2009, it will be the
25th anniversary of the videocollectives. At this occasion, the
Festival Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque
will commemorate the event by presenting a videocollective
retrospective.