Scott Bartlett
1943 – 1990

San Francisco experimental filmmaker Scott Bartlett spent the mid-1960s making film loops for various West Coast light shows. In the summer of 1967, he partnered with Michael MacNamee and liquid light specialist Glenn McKay, of the light show outfit Head Lights, to make OffOn, the first “electrovideographic jam” in America, at a television studio in Sacramento. Prior to that undertaking, Bartlett had worked with Tom Dewitt on a “mulitprojection light concert” called Timecycle. Together and separately, the two had shot …

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