Talking Landscape: Early Media 1974-1984 is a compendium made in 2012 with short media works made between 1974 and 1984. In 2010, 11 thru 12 and Fluorescent/Azalea, both Super 8mm films, were preserved as 16mm films with funds from the National Film Preservation Foundation by Bill Brand in cooperation with Brent Phillips and The Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University(NYU.) 11 thru 12 was warmly received at the 7th Orphans Film Symposium and the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Lost Shoe Blues and Flora Funera (for Battery Park City) were preserved on film the following year by Brittan Dunham and Bill Brand's class in the Moving Picture Archiving Program at NYU. Gradually, more pieces of this period became visible. In 2014, New York Women in Film and Television awarded funds to preserve Some Food May Be Found in the Desert. The four parts noted above are preserved as 16mm film. Otherwise, the material is available as video.
Livia Bloom selected Talking Landscape: Early Media 1974-1984 for theatrical release at the Maysles Cinema in New York in 2012. As Guest Curator for DOXA 2013, she selected the film again and wrote an essay titled Talking Landscape: Early Media Works 1974-1984. See page 18: https://issuu.com/doxafest/docs/2013doxaprogrambook