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The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd
The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd is a video directed by Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America involving footage filmed between 1970 and 1975 following the lives and marriage of Carel Rowe and Ferd Eggan. Originally shown as a 3- channel video, 8-monitor installation including live feed of the audience for The Kitchen in New York in 1971,〔Debbie Gould. http://areachicago.org/ferd-eggan-1946-2007/, Area Chicago: Ferd Eggan 1946-2007〕 the edited video is now distributed by Video Data Bank and Electronic Arts Intermix. The edited video consists of an hour-long tape selected from over 30 hours of footage that includes both the footage of the marriage and subsequent consummation, shot from 1971- 1972, and footage of an interview of Carel, Ferd, and Ginsberg produced for WNET's Video and Television Review in 1975. The video is most readily available as a 33:15 segment on a collection of videos and video segments produced by Video Data Bank, ''Surveying the First Decade: Volume One: Program 3: Approaching Narrative: "There are Problems to be Solved"''.〔http://www.vdb.org/titles/continuing-story-carel-and-ferd-excerpt Video Data Bank, The Continuing story of Carel and Ferd〕''The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd'' is often classified as video vérité, somewhere in between cinéma vérité and reality television, though the footage predates An American Family, often considered the first example of reality television.〔http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=2957 Electronic Arts Intermix, The Continuing story of Carel and Ferd〕
''The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd'' blends modes of camera address, featuring shots taken by Ginsberg of the couple in private or among friends, as well as first-person camera confessional shots.〔Renov, Michael. "Video Confessions." The Subject of Documentary. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2004. 201-02.〕 Ginsberg, through the recently founded Video Free America, received some of the first Sony Portapaks in America in order to shoot the footage.〔Gary Indiana. http://www.poz.com/articles/221_1548.shtml. POZ, Inside Agitator〕 Seeking to film the making of a pornographic film, Ginsberg found Carel and Ferd, who were looking to make an erotic film from their wedding, in order to repay a man whose car Ferd had recently crashed. Ginsberg began shooting the day that Richard, an old friend of Carels, came by to talk about the wedding. This initial session was spontaneous, and in this instance Ginsberg says that in using video media, he was able to capture this footage impulsively, the video came about by chance. Though the footage is centered on the event of the wedding, the camera's insertion into the lives of Carel and Ferd before the event means that much of the footage anticipates the wedding self-consciously.〔Phillips, Glenn. "Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America." California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. 98-101.〕 Though the footage is cut to highlight specific moments and events, most of the footage is edited straightforwardly so as to not interrupt the narrative flow, the limited editing testament to Ginsberg's belief that with videotape any editing at all is "sapping its strength as a real-time medium."〔
==Synopsis ==
''The Continuing Story of Carol and Ferd'' takes on a loose long-form narrative, with two main subjects in a circle of friends, primarily shot in San Francisco. Carel Rowe, a filmmaker and erotic film actress and Ferd Eggan, a queer junkie, seek to be married, in part for the "media show" of their marriage and in part, a genuine desire to express their love for one another through the legal union of marriage. The footage features several others in their social group, notably Richard, a previous paramour of Carel's, who appears in an attempt to convince Carel and Ferd to not get married, as well as in the actual marriage scene. The video also features several unnamed friends, often present and sometimes addressed during the filming. Both Carel and Ferd also mention many others in their circle, including Ferd's alleged lovers, a source of contention between the two. On camera, the two kiss, interrogate one another, banter, argue, and have sex. The camera documents their intimacy as well as interrupts it, as they address the camera directly and answer questions asked by Ginsberg, behind the camera. After a fight scene, Ginsberg asks an unnamed friend in the shot whether the couple is fighting because the camera is on, to which the friend replies; “Oh I don’t think they’re doing it because the camera is on, but the camera's affecting them." In the WNET broadcast the two refer to the camera as a catalyst for action, and that their behavior in the presence of the camera was performance of only certain realities. The wedding itself is shot with more jump cuts, interviewing guests and featuring multiple close-up shots of details during of the ceremony. The ceremony is a combination of a Jewish service and a media show, referencing Marshall Mcluhan's the medium is the message. The wedding footages concludes with loud and obviously staged shots of the consummation of the marriage. In this footage the camera men are present and visible, the camera's whirring is recorded, and the camera men shout directions at the couple.〔The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd. Dir. Arthur Ginsberg. Video Data Bank: Surveying the First Decade Volume 1, 1972-5. DVD.〕
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