Other early members include Skip Blumberg, Chuck Kennedy, Davidson Gigliotti, Bart Friedman, Carol Vontobel, Nancy Cain, and Ann Woodward, with dozens of additional collaborators participating in the group's cooperative projects.
Initially based out of New York City, in 1971 the Videofreex moved to a 27-bedroom house in the Catskill Mountains named the Maple Tree Farm, one of the first independent media centers in the United States.
[3][4][5] Michael Shamberg, author of Guerrilla Television and founding member of TVTV, remarked, "The Freex are the most production oriented of the video groups […] in terms of finished, cleanly edited, high quality tape, which is generally quite entertaining, the Videofreex are clearly the best.
This approach was particularly evident in their Prince Street studio in NYC, where they hosted weekly screenings that encompassed a diverse array of content, including music, politics, culture, and dance.
The screenings, although unadvertised, drew audiences through the allure of free press coverage in esteemed publications such as Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and even the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section.