Rob Rombout | 10th Festival
The Netherlands’ Rob Rombout expounds on his reasons for making documentaries. More than portraying facts, his intention is to put forth a poetic view of reality, to convert the ordinary into extraordinary
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Jorge La Ferla | 10th Festival
The Argentinean curator Jorge la Ferla, who attended the 1994 edition, reviews the myriad poetics constructed from narrative and phenomenological image codes
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Danilo Santos de Miranda | 10th Festival
The director of SESC discusses the importance of Videobrasil Festival in consolidating the notions of innovation, technology, creativity, and in particular dialogue and interchange between Southern countries
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Breda Beban e Hrvoje Horvatic | 10th Festival
Guests to the 10th edition, in 1994, the Yugoslavian artists couple discusses the value of experience in conceiving a work of art, as opposed to the notion of inspiration
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Marcelo Tas | 9th Festival
“Reality does not exist,” in the words of Marcelo Tas. According to the artist, reality is always manipulated whenever one is working with television
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Timothy Binkley | 9th Festival
A guest to the 9th edition, in 1992, Timothy Blinkley expounds his views on virtual reality. Built using computers, virtual reality is defined by abstraction in opposition to the concrete nature of objects
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Wesley Duke Lee | 9th Festival
To Wesley Duke Lee, the artist must intervene if video is to become something more than just "a bunch of hardware that is good for nothing..."
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Gianni Toti | 9th Festival
One of the people honored at the 1992 edition, Gianni Totti discusses the roles of artist and of art. To him, art is the chaotic beginning at which order and power are made to contradict each other
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Eduardo Coutinho | 9th Festival
The filmmaker presents his perspectives on video and documentary in Brazil, discusses the notion of authorship, and television productions
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Bill Viola | 9th Festival
“All technological breakthroughs affect my work,” explains Bill Viola. The notion of perception is central to the artist’s work, and the body is the key with which one connects with the world
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