Street Scenes

HD Video. 3.15. 2014-2025
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A man on a skating board running into a steel door, again and again…

The estranged eye of the observer is caught by the spookiness of the scene: the juxtaposition – rather, the collision – of the blind fury of the skater, the glimpse of the word CHINA, on the underside of the skateboard, and your sensing of pathos (beauty and terror) of the images on the wall, in a state of disappearance.

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The short video conveys a sensing of a ruined monument, celebrating women’s solidarity and creativity, becoming anew, as sound-image (another other) in its interaction of viewer and the cinema screen.

The camera moves closer to reveal surfaces of colours and textures; a palimpsest of actions of defacements, which time has added to and transformed over the years which the photographic images show as another kind of cinematic storytelling.

Credits

Video Realised by Ettore Siracusa