Dallas Video Festival turns 25

The neighborhood-based festival returns to its original home, the Dallas Museum of Art

Twenty-five years ago, the Dallas Museum of Art invited Bart Weiss to present a program of video art. It was called “Video as a Creative Medium,” and it ran for two nights in 1986.

“It went way better than expected,” Weiss says.

He was known for running videos at

Lower Greenville’s On The Air and later, Video Bar in Deep Ellum, as well as for his reviews of music and home videos in the local papers. Weiss, John Held and Melissa Barry decided to turn the thing into a video festival the following year, and the Dallas Video Fest was born.

“I never thought I wanted to do this,