BEFORE MTV: An Evening with Music Video Pioneer CHUCK STATLER
May 18, 2010 
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Big Smash!, The West End Cultural Centre, Manitoba Music + Video Pool Media Arts Centre present:
BEFORE MTV: An Evening with Music Video Pioneer CHUCK STATLER featuring videos by Devo, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tiny Tim, Pere Ubu + more plus live musical DEVO tribute byRouge’s Malady, Ton O’Love (aka Muscle of Love), Blunderspublik + The Wind-Ups!
Kier-La Janisse’s Going-Away Party!
Thursday May 20, 2010 – Doors 7:15pm | Show 8:00pm West End Cultural Centre – 586 Ellice Ave. Winnipeg, Canada
Tickets $12 advance / $15 door / $10 Video Pool + Manitoba Music members (with card) Advance tix at WECC, Ticketmaster, Into the Music levitra soft and Music Trader!
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Chuck Statler, arguably the godfather of the music video, is a pioneer who directed music films for upstart record labels and emerging superstars like Elvis Costello, Madness, and DEVO before MTV’s existence. Minneapolis-based but Akron-born-and-bred, Statler met fellow art students Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerry Casale—the nucleus of DEVO—at Kent State University in the early purchasing cialis with next day delivery 1970s. They soon began collaborating on the music films that would become a hallmark of DEVO’s act. Soon Stiff, Blank, ZE Records, and other maverick New Wave labels commissioned Statler to produce films for their artists. Music videos (aka short band films), traced from the budding European “pop clip” business of the 1960s, were used by record labels in America and Europe to promote new propecia for women hair loss talent. Already friendly with many New Wave artists and skilled in 16mm film production, Statler soon found his niche. Highlights include films of Costello, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, Madness, and DEVO! Post-MTV clips include music by Pere Ubu, Tiny Tim + more!
INTERVIEW WITH STATLER in THE AV CLUB
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About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
