During the International Film Festival Rotterdam alternative television makers from five disparate cities come together in a temporary television studio, newly elaborating ideas in on the spot production projects and freshly elucidating documents of their earlier work.
Satellite of Love is the name of this commune, where surrounded by media-art of the most diverse dimensions, creators and viewers can meet in invigorating circumstances, where television is not only being produced but also newly thought through, and perhaps even reinvented. Manifold ‘lean forward’ presentations and workshops are being programmed (Tea Time TV) as well as ‘lean backward’ screenings of particular licks in television-taste (TV Dinners). Naturally, a smorgasbord of screens will also encourage encounters with national television, VPRO’s digital channel and local broadcasters; an inclusive variety of Exploding Television.
Marjan van Mourik:
