Skip Blumberg

Skip Blumberg
New York
USA

cityhallpark@earthlink.net

Television producer, director, video artist. 1980 - present.

"I want to warm up the cool medium of TV" S.B.

EDUCATION:
SUNY Buffalo B.A., Psychology/Sociology 1967
Queens College School of Social Work Summer, 1967
Cornell University Graduate School of Business 1967 - 1968
George Washington University School of Education Summer, 1968

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art (NYC) – 12 videos, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Radio and TV, Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago), National Museum of the American Indian, Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library, Walker Art Center, Everson Museum of Art and numerous schools and universities.

INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED TV SHOWS AND SHORTS APPEARED ON:
PBS, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, The Learning Channel, USA Cable Network, Free Speech TV, Bravo and TV networks around the world; excerpted on network TV shows, including, NBC’s "Today" and "The Tonight Show," Bravo’s "Mystery of Genius," ABC’s "That’s Incredible," "Real TV," "Ripley’s Believe It or Not," and "You Asked For It."

AWARDS:
Videographer Award Best Fund-raising Video 1998; National Park & Recreation Association Festival Best Feature Video 1995; Dance on Camera Festival Silver Award1991; Atlanta Film Festival Best of Festival, 1980, Director’s Choice, 1989; American Film Festival Blue Ribbons 1980, 1981, 1983, 1988; Museum of TV and Radio ‘TV Critics’ Favorite All-time Shows"1985; Esquire Magazine Register of Outstanding Young Americans 1984; Documentary Film and TV Festival 1981, Best of Festival 1982; U.S. Film Festival Jury Award1982; Athens Video Festival Best Social Documentary1982; Emmy’s Best Local (NYC) Sports Show, Camera, Editing1981; Ohio State University Journalism Award 1981; Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Local Program 1981; Black Programming Consortium Best Cultural Program 1981.

GRANTS:
NYS Council on the Arts 1984, 2000; National Endowment for the Arts (7) 1977, 1980, 1984, 1987; Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1982; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1981; NY Foundation for the Arts 1976, 1981.

VIDEO INSTALLATIONS:
"Video Waterfall: Telefunken Vasserfall", Videomedien at the Berlin Film Festival. 1989
"Disarmament Video Survey" Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) 1982
"City Beat" Institute of North America (Barcelona, Spain) 1981
Crystal Court, IDS Center (Minneapolis) 1980.

ARTICLES and BOOKLET by Skip Blumberg:
"Recent Advances in Broadcasting Small Format Video," The Independent, June, 1983.
"The Fantastic Four: Life After Video," Video Guide, Vol. 6, No. 5, 1983.
"Jungletown TV on the Air," Low Power TV Reporter, May, 1981.
"Jungletown TV on the Air," Videoscope, Vol.1, No. 2, 1977.
"The TVTV Show: Behind the Scenes and Behind the Lines," Televisions, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1977.
"Foreign Agent and Cable TV," Televisions, Vol. 5, No.2, 1977.
"Networking in Dreamland," Ms.Magazine, 1975.
"Video Resources in New York State," Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1975.
"Cooking with Video," Win Magazine, 1973.

2001:

Con Creep (realization)

1990:

Words On Fire (realization)

1989:

Essentials of Tap Technique (realization)
Chinese Noodle Making: Backwards and Forwards (realization)

1988:

Get Wet: The Syncro Swim Scratch Video (camera, editing, realization)
Wrap Around the World (other)

1987:

Women of the Calabash (editing, production, realization)
New Music America #1 (realization)

1986:

Seoul Brother Report (realization)
New Dance (realization)

1985:

Elephant Games (realization)
Spalding Gray's "A Personal History of the American Theater" (realization)
Art-On-Parade (realization)
Interviews with Interviewers... About Interviewing (camera, editing, production, realization)
Flying Morning Glory (on fire) (realization)

1983:

The 21st Annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (camera, editing, production, realization)

1981:

Abscam (Framed) (realization)
Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show (realization)

1980:

Summer Ski Jumping (camera, editing, production, realization)
Festival of Musical Saws (editing, sound, production, realization)
Earle Murphy's Winter Olympics (realization)
The Ugly Dog Contest (production, realization)

1978:

The First International Whistling Show (production, realization)
For a Moment You Fly: The Big Apple Circus (editing, production, realization)

1976:

When I was a Worker Like LaVerne (realization)
JGLNG(pronounced "juggling") (realization)

1975:

Media Burn (editing)
The Eternal Frame (other)

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