Jean-Marie Duhard | 8th Festival
The curator explains the role of the independent producer in France as a sort of middleman between the artist and television, and lists the difficulties encountered on publicizing video in the country
testimonies
Fernando Barbosa Lima | 8th Festival
The TV director discusses the first independent productions featured on Brazilian television, highlighting the role of the Repórter Esso program, aired on TV Tupi prior to the ‘iron years’
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Dominik Barbier e Cathy Vogan | 8th Festival
The impossibility to express a love story between two people through telecommunications. Such is the theme of Dominik Barbier and Cathy Vogan’s autobiographic video installation
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Video Opera for Paik, by Steina Vasulka and Stephen Vitiello | 11th Festival
A visual and musical tribute to Nam June Paik, paid by Stenia Vasulka and Stephen Vitiello in 1996, based on the master’s works
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Santa Clara Poltergeist, by Fausto Fawcett | 9th Festival
Fausto Fawcett’s irreverence spawned one of the pioneering performances of the Festival, presented in 1992 and featuring a polyphony of music, bodies, and images.
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Poscatidevenum, by Eder Santos | 10th Festival
Video, music and performance come together in a large multimedia installation designed by Eder Santos, Paulo Santos and the group Uakti, presented in 1992
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Poesia é risco, by Augusto de Campo, Cid Campos and Walter Silveira | 11th Festival
Created in 1996, the "verbivocovisual event", as described by the authors, mixed poetry, electronic music, singing, and video footage
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Passagem de Mariana, by Eder Santos, Paulo Santos and grupo Uakti | 11th Festival
Music, image, and Indian themes come together to represent the deadly sins in this work by Eder Santos and Paulo Santos, in 1996
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O Gabinete de Chico, by Chelpa Ferro | 12nd Festival
This performance, presented in 1998, combines electronic image projections edited on the fly and a musical performance involving conventional instruments and noisy objects, like an orange squeezer and door bells
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No Sleep and a dead Bird, by Stephen Vitiello | 10th Festival
In Stephen Vitiello’s 1994 performance, live footage is combined with spoken texts and a soundtrack based on guitar loops and bird calls
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