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Videograms of a Revolution. Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 Romanian Revolution. In 2004 the Austrian Film Museum selected the ...
Videograms of a Revolution. 1992. 16mm film transferred to standard-definition video (color, sound). 106 min. Given anonymously in honor of Anna Marie Shapiro. 501. ...
Autobiography joins two previous films, Videograms of a Revolution and Out of the Present, to make up a trilogy of fascinating and groundbreaking documentaries about these historic changes. Born in Romania in 1951, Ujica began writing fiction as a young man before immigrating to West Germany in 1981 to study literary and media theory.
May 29, 2020 – Starting today, Andrei Ujică and Harun Farocki’s landmark VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION becomes for the first time available for streaming in the U.S. and internationally. For insights into “Videograms of a Revolution”, listen to the podcast with filmmaker Andrei Ujică recorded last November at Film Forum for the launch of ...
This study has illustrated how the film locations of Videograms of a Revolution, The Paper Will Be Blue, and 12:08 East of Bucharest are objective correlatives of the struggles of the protagonists Costi, Jderescu, Manescu, and Piscoci, whose lives were impacted by the 1989 revolution at different levels. The allegorical landscapes shed an unexpected light on the sociopolitical turmoil and its ...
Oct 9, 2011 · Videograms of a Revolution (Videogramme einer Revolution) Directed by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica. Germany, 1992, 16mm, color, 106 min. German, Romanian, English with English subtitles. Share. After fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution in 1989, the Soviet bloc was showing signs of imminent collapse.
Dec 8, 2018 · Giorgio Agamben, Means Without End: Notes on Politics. Videograms of a Revolution (Videogramme einer Revolution), the 1992 film by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, details the five days in December of 1989 during which a popular uprising in Romania deposed and executed the Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceauçescu.
