Media Burn Archive

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Media Burn is a nonprofit dedicated to video’s overlooked histories and its most fiercely independent voices, from the 1960s to today.

Postcard with text that reads "media burn picnic in the archive, tuesday, june 23, 5pm-7pm, 348 n ashland ave suite 1d, chicago, il, 60607 - see our new space! free and open to the public!" The postcard has a thick red boarder and red text with an overlay of a red gingham pattern and hand drawn illustrations of ants with televisions for heads.
Artist Errol Ortiz, in a film by Erin Babbin & Michael Sullivan.
Artist Errol Ortiz, in a film by Erin Babbin & Michael Sullivan.
The extremely cool, light-up, tropically-themed mirror over a light brown leather bar and barstools. Bob, the animated mascot for "Image Union" serves as "bartender" while "Do the Milly" (https://mediaburn.org/videos/do-the-milly/) plays on a TV/VCR combo.
Diverse Videos Produced by Mirko Popadic, Sunday May 18th at 2pm, FORA 6435 N California
Pat McGuiness and her daughter survey the damage to their Brooklyn neighborhood in Women of Northside Fight Back.
A barber cuts hair
Head shots of Antoine Haywood in a blue blazer, and Daniel Mayeda in a colorful shirt standing in a mountain range.
Video still of man holding polka dot dresses in the early 1990s in New York City.
Stoney Burke covering the 1992 RNC for the PBS series THE 90's.