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Tuesday, Jul 9, 1996
Video Documentary: Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Model Crime Reconstructed combines three representations of the same event: the crime itself, the TV show, and the creative deformation of the latter by the video itself. The Arrow of Zeno is a pun on the numbers that precede the beginning of a film, which this one prolongs indefinitely. Heliography creates a new and different kind of fiction, in which elements that seem naturalistic are constantly being replaced and transfigured.-Jorge La Ferla, Curator, Argentine video Video in the Villages, made by Vincent Carelli of the Indigenous Work Center, deals with the introduction of video within the communication system of Indian tribes, where it is used not only as a passive registration of their traditions but as a form of political struggle. Portrait of a Serial Kisser is a semi-documentary about one of the most exotic characters in Brazil today, who received the nickname "kisser" because of his obsession with kissing political and entertainment celebrities in order to appear in the media.-Arlindo Machado, Curator, Brazilian video In Case Closed a woman is left without a past; her gestures have been erased, her case has been closed. Red for the Lips speaks of a new technological era, at the same time offering us a melancholy air-extensive in Latin American leftist culture-in relation to the Cuban Revolution.-Néstor Olhagaray, Curator, Chilean video (with Magai Meneses, Guillermo Cifuentes) The Arrow of Zeno (Jorge Macchi, David Oubiña, Argentina, 1992, 1:20 mins). The Day of Roto Chileno (Claudio Rojas, Chile, 1994, 13 mins). Case Closed (Lotty Rosenfeld, Chile, 1993, 3 mins). Red for the Lips (Pablo Basulto, Chile, 1991, 13 mins). Heliography (Claudio Caldini, Argentina, 1993, 5 mins). Video in the Villages (Vincent Carelli, Brazil, 1989, 10 mins). Model Crime Reconstructed (Fabián Hofman, Andrés Di Tella, Argentina, 1990, 40 mins). Portrait of a Serial Kisser (Carlos Nader, Brazil, 1992, 29 mins)
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