Through a strange series of links, I have become aware of a 1989 film called Videostatic. Distributed independently for $10/tape, Videostatic looks like some sort of insane hodgepodge of clips and video effects that I am strangely drawn to.

Here is a synopsis written around 1998 from Gareth Branwyn’s Street Tech,

This is a 60-minute audio-visual journey to the edges of alternative art-making and experimental video. The tape is divided up into four sections: “Poems” (intuitive, non-narrative, alogical), “Paintings” (video equivalent to the conventional canvas), “Stories” (Event-based sequences), and “Messages” (rhetorical stances, public “service” announcements). The most impressive pieces here are “Sex with the Dead,” a video memory-jog of our morbidly nostalgic culture by Joe Schwind, “Of Thee I Sing/Sing/Sing,” a musique concrete video by Linda Morgan-Brown and the Tape-Beatles, and “Glossolalia,” (Steve Harp) an absolutely mind-fucking excursion into language, synaesthetic experience, and the structuring of human thought and perception. Surrounded by the curious, the kooky, and the just plain boring (as kook-tech artist Douglass Craft likes to say: “Not every experiment was a success.”) At only $10, this is an insane bargain.

Videostatic compilers John Heck and Lloyd Dunn (of Tape-Beatles’ fame) plan on putting out a series of these tapes. As far as we know, 1989 is the latest release. Write for more info (or to submit material).

ACCESS:
Videostatic
911 North Dodge St.
Iowa City, IA 52245
$10/ 60-minute VHS cassette

I’m looking for this in any format, digital or physical.

I’m not quite sure what I’m in store for.

EDIT: Here is some additional information from the PhotoStatic Archive,

VideoStatic 1989 was released in June, 1989. It is a video compilation along much the same lines as the PhonoStatic cassettes. It contains roughly an hour of video and film work by both networking artists and Iowa City locals. It was edited by John Heck and Lloyd Dunn. At the time of this writing (6/90) VideoStatic 1990 was not yet begun, but plans are underway. It will be edited by Linda-Morgan Brown and Lloyd Dunn.