Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in LA

Presented by Hollywood Entertainment
Mar 24 - Mar 31, 2025

Ongoing Series

Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in L.A. is an expansive weeklong screening and performance series programmed by Elizabeth Purchell and Hollywood Entertainment. The series honors both the diverse range of artists, videomakers, and communities that have found a home at Los Angeles’s EZTV over the course of its first 45 years of existence and the global influence that it has had on the development of video, digital, and performance art. Featuring a wide range of unique events at REDCAT, Brain Dead Studios, Whammy! Analog Media, 18th Street Arts Center, the Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles Filmforum, and online, Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in L.A. is a first-of-its-kind tribute to a still under-understood L.A. institution.

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Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in LA

PAST SCREENINGS

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Blonde Death

Tue, Mar 25 @ 7:30 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
When James Dillinger’s shot-on-video masterpiece Blonde Death premiered at West Hollywood’s EZTV Video Gallery on October 6, 1983, it instantly became the closest thing that the space had to a “hit”, playing as a late-night movie for months.
This outrageous 80s time capsule, shot on video for $2000 by pulp author and "the world's angriest gay man" James Robert Baker, Blonde Death is a John Waters-inspired true punk film about a teenage girl on a crime spree with her two bisexual best friends.
Tammy, an angry, nihilistic teenager fed up with the mediocrity of suburban life, descends into a hedonistic spree of drugs, crime and murder.
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The EZTV Comedy Spectacular

featuring the Subversive Comedies of Sebastian

Wed, Mar 26 @ 8:00 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
A selection of comedy shorts from the EZTV archive, including four super rarities from gaydirector Sebastian, known for The Cockettes' "Tricia's Wedding,"made from 1979-1987.
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SudZall Does It All!

45th Anniversary

Fri, Mar 28 @ 8:00 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
Shakespearian actress Cordelia Coventry is about to give up on her career when she is chosen by director Bruce Rapport to become the star of a national ad campaign for Sudzall washing powder.
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EZTV Lesbian Erotic Video

Fri, Mar 28 @ 10:00 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
A copy of the original 1985 EZTV program including Fatale Video's first two erotic lesbian shorts--Private Pleasures and Shadows--which had caused a riot at that year's San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Video Festival.
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A night at EZTV

Sat, Mar 29 @ 7:30 pm
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The Velaslavasay Panorama
EZTV Founding Member and Director Michael J. Masucci
Home to some of LA’s most adventurous programming, a typical night at EZTV's video microcinema might include a mix of video art, low-budget horror, political documentaries, queer video, and performance art of every kind.
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EZTV Avant Video

Works by Video Innovators

Mon, Mar 31 @ 7:30 pm
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2220 Arts + Archives
For this program, we’ll present three mid-length works that were originally packaged together in August 1985 as Avant Video: New Works by Video Innovators, along with a handful of shorter pieces spanning the breadth of EZTV’s history.