VAM (Michael Geißler)
«Videostudio»

From 1969 on, the various members of the VAM – Video, Audio, Media – group centred around the Berliner Michael Geissler worked as a collective on creating an independent, documentary video style which was playful and imaginative at the same time. With the video film 'Wir müssen die weißen Indianer Europas werden' ('We Must Become the White Indians of Europe'), which was made with unemployed people and broadcast by the art and education channels of the public TV network, the group was the first video project to have a production transmitted on German television. At the 'documenta 6' – which will be remembered as the 'media documenta' – VAM produced on-site documentaries about the art projects in a then still very expensive U-matic editing studio.