In the early 1980s, many artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on television—a promise that was broken by commercialism. By turns humorous, pensive, or even abstract, this selection of short videos highlights some of the era’s most compelling video art accompanied by music.

Vintage electronics share a stage with the newest sonic technology when acclaimed Dutch composer Thomas Ankersmit highlights a two-night festival. Friday’s "Noise Night" features L. Damion Romero and noise pioneers Zbigniew Karkowski and Xopher Davidson. Saturday’s “Ambient Night” features Ankersmit along with zerfall_gebiete, Thomas Köner and Ulrich Krieger.

For five years, filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and her collaborators followed Terry Albrecht, a guide-for-hire for hunters of buffalo, to create The Last Buffalo Hunt. As the mystique of the West becomes a commodity for the nouveaux riches, Albrecht’s livelihood is threatened and cowboys and buffalo alike become ghosts. 

The ragingly multitalented Mx Justin Vivian Bond commands the stage in a hilarious, heart-wrenching cabaret show with original music from the critically hailed debut recording Dendrophile, featuring guileful covers of songs by Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, LCD Soundsystem, and others—and no small amount of biting political satire.