The Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club (MWF) was founded as an offshoot of Collaborative
Projects Inc. (Colab) to distribute independent films made by Colab members and other
filmmakers from the years 1986-2000. MWF sold artists' and independent video and filmmakers'
work at low prices to make video art affordable to the general public.
Colab was formed in 1977 by a group of around forty artists who worked together to stage
exhibitions and shows in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some members of
Colab had been part of All Color News (ACN) which focused on documentaries and showed works
on public access cable TV. Other MWF artists participated in the cable TV shows Potato Wolf and Paper Tiger
Television. Artists distributed by MWF included Nick Zedd, Charlie and John
Ahearn, Glenn O'Brien, Ellen Cooper and Kiki Smith, Cassandra Stark, Sophie Vielle, Arleen
Schloss, and Richard Kern, among others.
For more information on the history of MWF, see Box 2, Folder 30 and Box 8, Folder 3.
