Scratch videos, film and sound works to explode across Sheffield this spring

A number of early “scratch videos”—edgy 1980s works using found footage appropriated from mainstream media—will go on show during this spring’s Art Sheffield festival (16 April-8 May).
The artistic director of the biennial event, Martin Clark, throws new light on these subversive, rough-cut videos, which heralded contemporary video art practice and the YouTube age. Clark has sel ected rarely seen scratch videos by film-makers such as Nick Cope, Richard Heslop, the