Target Video

Target Video (or TargetVideo77) is a San Francisco-based studio, founded by artists Joe Rees and Jill Hoffman-Kowal, who collaborating with Jackie Sharp, Sam Edwards and others, archived early art performance, punk and hardcore bands on video and film. Performers and artists as diverse as the Sex Pistols, the Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, William S. Burroughs, the Clash, the Avengers, Mark Pauline, Survival Research Labs, the Go-Go's, John Cooper Clark, Bauhaus, X, The Dils, Johanna Went, Talking Heads, Black Flag, Flipper, and Crucifix were recorded in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Using multiple cameras, they produced some of the highest quality footage available of these bands performing in front of live audiences. In addition, videos often included interviews with members of the bands. In the early 2000's, Target Video began officially re-releasing their out-of-print VHS back catalog of archive material on DVD.