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"Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more dehumanizing, more certain to generate a crisis, than experiencing individual's life as a meaningless event in a meaningless society"
This video- installation is based on 27,000 stills photographed from the archives of the National Television in Tirana. The movie is accompanied by a poem from the writer, Ismail Kadare, which was published at “The teacher and the Art”, 1953, p. 49- 53. It is a reflection on the mentality and nature of the transition period in my home country.
Kadare’s poem is intentionally recited by an anonymous fictional voice that has no clue of poetry, not even of language, and that it reads in a mechanical and computeric manner, with a low rhythm and almost sleepy, which later on generates a chaotic tension to an upgrowing stressed babeling. All this pandemonium unfolds the idea of false propaganda and governmental elite hypocrisy that in fact displays doubt in these images, which are not believed and understood even from those who say it.
Here, the goal is not to stigmatize Kadare’s work, but the veiling of that happy and idyllic in disguise reality, after which was hidden the drama of the persecuted people, unable to have the freedom of speech and the freedom of individuality whom tried to survive in a oppressed and isolated society. |