Image Union

Country: United States

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This series collected short works from different video makers and showed them one after another within each hour long episode. There were no smooth transitions or host introductions, just a straight presentation of short documentary pieces.

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What happens

Image Union is an American independent documentary series created by Jamie Cesar and Tom Weinberg. It was aired on WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois and premiered on November 16, 1978. Each hour-long episode was either a "theme show" or a "potpourri" of work from different video makers and the segments were cut together with few transitions or announcer introductions. The show did not have an official end date and reruns regularly ran on WTTW up until the early 2010s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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