RTBF, the TV-station for the French speaking community of Belgium, broadcasts every two weeks on Friday and Sunday the programme Carré Noir. The producers, Jean-Paul Trefois and Christiane Philippe, present regularly works from (video) artists of the French community. Two genres are favoured: fictitious documentaries as well as documentaries in the strict sense. The producers are especially concerned with works that are thematically or in their visual and textual expression extraordinary.

Following RTBF's logic and public duty to actively support creativity for its impact on the future, Carré Noir functions as producer and co-producer taking into account the whole range of European productions when buying additional programmes. The objective is to establish RTBF as an important partner for international co-productions with TV-stations like La Sept, ZDF or Channel4. Carré Noir will be presented in Berlin by Jean-Paul Trefois.

Short programmes by Canal+ follow the idea of création and have become one of the strongholds of the French pay-tv station. Short series, new technologies, special programmes on video and the electronic image, and short fiction films of all genres (documentary, animation, experiments, fiction). At the end of the 90's Canal+ expects to have transmitted a total amount of 2000 short films from all over the world, some hundred being own productions or acquisitions.

Canal+is co-producer of the series AVANCE SUR IMAGE. Show nr.23 presents exclusively French works which belong to the highlights of recent video création.(TVideo-Special 25 February, 14.00h).

IMAGINA91 – THEIERE'S AFTER by Jerome Lefdup is a Canal+ production, transmitted for the first time this February and named after the Monte Carlo festival. It's dedicated to the pioneers of 3D-Animation – John Lasseter and Yochiro Kawaguchi – and to new French animation. A report on the Imagina and its topics ends the programme. Canal+ will be represented in Berlin by Marie Pascale Lescot from the International Relations.

For more than a year now the French cultural channel LA SEPT, founded in 1986, has been transmitting via the satellite TDF1 a weekly programme of 21 hours plus 5 additional hours every Saturday on terrestrial frequencies by FR 3. The enormous response to its non-commercial programmes is based to a great extent on unusual projects of the Unité Documentaire: Contacts, a mini-series of 13 shows 15 minutes long, portraits well-known photographers by filming a contact print of their work. La Collection presents 2-minute impressions on contemporary art.

These projects exemplify the station's idea of realising a laboratory for new forms of television in which the potential cultural form of the medium is developed. Film and video are treated equally, there is no explicit fund for video productions. Yet important works in the field of video art by authors like Robert Cahen or Pierre Trividic were realised with the station's support.

LA SEPT functions only as co-producer for a yearly production of 150 hours. Another 150 programme hours are bought. The station, partner of the German channel ZDF for the project of a French/German cultural channel, is represented at the festival by Claire Doutriaux.

In Cooperation with the Arts Council and the BFI, Channel 4 presented a selection wide ranging films and videos collectively called The Dazzling Image. The makers are connected by their refusal to conform to convention and by the high production standards that they all achieve on relatively small budgets; works by film-makers who adopt a visual or structural approach as well as works with a documentary or narrative approach. The programme will be presented by the series' editor Jane Thorburn.

Included on the Rahmenprogramm TVideo 25 February: The Dazzling Image incl.: The Long Way Round by Graham Young and Martin Jones, The Old Man of the Sea by Christopher Newby; and The Ballad of Reading of Goal Richard Kweitniowski.

White Noise is an acquisition series of cutting-edge videos, films, and animations created by artists from Europe and North America. The 540-minute programmes, made by the independent production company Illuminations for BBC Television, present a selection of striking, challenging, and sometimes bizarre work which demonstrates the concerns of those exploring the contemporary potential of the moving image. Many of the selections were produced with the state-of-the-art technology such as HDTV or the most sophisticated digital animation. Other pieces demonstrate the imaginative possibilities of low-band videotape and Super 8 film.

The works are shown in full, introduced by distinctive graphics and some aIso by brief comments from the artist. Although each programme is organised around a theme this is not explicitly stated. The series develops the presentational strategies of the Channel 4 video showcase Ghosts in the Machine, also produced by John Wyver and Illuminations. White Noise was transmitted on BBC 2 at 8.30pm on Saturdays during the summer 1990. Each episode was seen by an audience of ca. 400 000. In Berlin it will be presented by John Wyver.

DEEP DISH from New York is the first national public access satellite network, carried by more than 300 cable channels nationwide. It is devoted to democratising the media by providing a national forum via television and has been distributing programmes made by community groups and independent producers across the country since 1986. The programming is unscrambled and available free of charge for non-commercial use to public access cable channels and home satellite dish owners. DEEP DISH is a non-profit, tax exempt, educational organisation supported by donations and major grants and sponsored by Media Network.

Public access channels consist of cable channels, television equipment and training provided for community use. These channels are the modern day embodiment of the First Amendment providing the only means by which community groups and individuals can produce television and communicate their information, activities and point of view to a wide audience. The crew of DEEP DISH works as a collective in New York, represented by Dee Dee Halleck, Marty Lucas, and Simone Farkondeh, and has been committed to the Gulf CrisisTV Project for the past weeks.

A public channel series with one-hour shows via cable. There is no host but continuity is provided by segments from The 90's Video Correspondents, The American Way, 90's People, The Surf Report, Your Tape Here (home video), The Washington Outsider, and of the recurring themes. The range o f topics includes ecology, drugs, the homeless, human rights, global perspectives, and the media. Music, humour, and irony are important elements in every broadcast.

Since no text on Denmarks Radio 2 has been available before the publishing deadline, a short introduction to the Videoexpress, a project of the Danish Film Institute Workshop, which will be presented on 22nd of February, 10.00. The Videoexpress is a programme for experimental film and video art. It is a mixture of the desire to migrate culturally and to further communication with fellow artists in Europe. The target audience of the programme is the generation that grew up on too much television. The objectives are: acquisition of current experimental production outside the film and video establishment and promotion of familiarity and insight with the possibilities of the medium itself through production and co-production of film and video for a non-journalistic kind of TV.