Videogrammes of a Revolution

Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.

Film

Fri 20 Aug, 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.50 Concs

Farocki and Ujica's brilliant documentary examines the political role of the camera in recording but also producing revolutionary events (or history, as they call it), via their persuasive analysis of the political role of TV and video images during the Romanian revolution of December 1989.

Dir. Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica Germany 1991 1h 46m

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