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"Est-ethics of Counter-Documentary After 1989"
Curator - Joanne Richardson
Documentary codes have aspired to achieve the effect of truth by effacing
their own construction. East European video production during the past
decade has sought to intervene in official representations--both those of
soviet newsreel and new mass media images-by using counter-documentary
strategies: "hijacking" and displacing images in incongruous
contexts, creating alternative "private" histories, forestalling
identification
through distantiation, questioning the process of framing by emphasizing
the gaps and borders around the constructed image, and over identifying
with the language of politics and mass media, thereby making apparent
what it usually has to suppress to function unquestioned.
Video Program List (can be changed):
Peter Forgacs, Dusi and Jeno (excerpt), 1989, Hungary, 10 min
Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, Luna 10, 1994, Slovenia, 10 min
Antal Lux, Fallgeschichte, 1992, Germany/Hungary, 5 min
Group + O, Accident (excerpt), 1992, Estonia, 7 min
Nicu Ilfoveanu, Bucharest, November, 1996, Romania, 4 min
Andrej Velikanov, Everything is going to be alright, 1996, Russia, 6 min
Elena Patoprsta, Zapping, 1999, Slovakia, 4 min
Jasper Zoova, TLL-EZE, 1998, Estonia, 4 min
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