Bart Weiss Oral History

Object number2015.001.0160

Date11/30/2015

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Bart Weiss

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 86 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Bart Weiss. An award-winning producer/director and co-founder of the Dallas Video Festival, Weiss is currently an associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. Working with filmmakers Allen and Cynthia Mondell in the late 1980s, Weiss served as editor of the documentary films seen in The Sixth Floor exhibit. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 30, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-six minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In 2021, Dallas Innovates called Bart Weiss "Dallas' greatest champion of video arts, films, and experiences." Weiss in 1986 co-founded Dallas VideoFest, an annual festival showcasing particularly offbeat art and film. The festival endured for nearly thirty-five years, concluding in September 2021. In addition to VideoFest, Weiss has taught film and video production at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Arlington and served on the board of several film associations, including the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers and the Texas Association of Film and Tape Professionals. For more than thirty years, Bart Weiss has produced the program Frame on Mind for Dallas PBS station KERA-TV, which highlights the work of Texas-based filmmakers. - Stephen Fagin, Curator