Autobiography
Autobiography, 1976-83.
Video, black-and-white and color, sound, 62 min.
Two excerpts from Autobiography, 1976-83. Over seven years, McCafferty, Portapak in hand, approached friends, family, neighbors, and acquaintances, asking,“What do you think of Jay McCafferty?” The result is a series of candid responses. “I had a new piece of equipment, and people didn’t know what it was. So I put it in their face and asked, ‘What do you think of Jay McCafferty?’ They’d give me an answer, and it was usually more about them than me.”
**Glenn Phillips, interview with Jay McCafferty, in California Video: Artists and Histories, ed. Glenn Phillips (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008), 166–69
Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Transferred by the Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation and the City of Long Beach, 2005.
© Jay McCafferty
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