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Aug 20, 2010 · A radical, media-based chronology that condenses 125 hours of footage, Videograms of a Revolution carefully mediates perspective as it presents a picture of political turmoil as revealing...
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Videograms of a Revolution (1993)Directors: Andrei Ujica, Harun Farocki.
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In Europe in the fall of 1989, history took place before our very eyes. Farocki and Ujica's Videograms shows the Rumanian revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest in a new media-based form of historiography.
These works [including Handsworth Songs (1986); Black Celebration; Letter to a Turtledove] bear witness to histories of conflict and insurrection, including the Watts uprising in Los Angeles (1965); the riots in Handsworth, England (1985); the Romanian Revolution (1989); and the war in the Donbas region of Ukraine (begun in 2014).
The tour of the Retrospective presents two screenings of his trilogy: Videograms of a Revolution & The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu on February 12 and February 16, at BAMPFA Berkeley, California.
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