The Revolution will not be Televised
Two independent film makers were inside the presidential palace on 11 April 2002, when Venezuelan president Chavez was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, Chavez returned to power amid cheering aides. The state channel, Channel 8, gave Chavez a weekly phone-in show in which he would answer questions from the public. The private channels, meanwhile, allowed oil-company chairmen to beseech the military to rise up against the President. When the coup was reported in the Western media, it was done using footage broadcast by these private channels.
Also in this combined programme
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Don McLean Restorations + JLB – The Man Who Saw The Future
The restored wonders of original recordings made in the era of mechanically-scanned television! -
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Videogramme einer Revolution
Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolutio -
Early Collaborations
A sample of rare early collaborative works by Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik, recorded between 1967 and 1969. -
Rabotnik TV
As opposed to conventional TV, the editing applied by Radio Rabotnik-TV Amsterdam is consistently artistic. -
DCTP TV (Development Company For Television Program)
Dadaist, multidimensional, multi-sensory experience. -
TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces)
The first example of British artists’ television and as an equally formative moment in British video art.
Film details
- Country of production
- Ireland
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 74'
- Medium/Format
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