It's the eighties, “times of peace and class compromise”, and only a handful of young people resist the lethargy and protest, to the extent of paying with their lives for daring to believe in a fairer world. They are times of a social unrest that is strange and therefore incomprehensible to a large part of Venezuelans. Pégale Candela is a historical record of a country that awakens from the Saudi delusion and explodes violently in a process that has been identified as the genesis of contemporary Venezuelan times: the “Caracazo”, 27th of February 1989.
(...) We are leaving the Earth bit by bit leaving behind our service to humankind and life in general motors and satellite waves are wounds in our hearts and brains through which love escapes
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The main idea of this project articulates from the commentaries that a personage makes (Damourè) in the film of Jean Rouch, Petit to Petit. Damourè describes surprised the customs of the Paris tribe, and it becomes sad by the mortal containment of the fluidity of the Seine and its children, nothing that to see with the freedom of the Niger. Also in dogones a deep tieline occurs that, would communicate, calmly, the sound with the water, and this with all. So, the voice, the songs like sonorous container, sex, the blood, the vital force of the world in sum, is water. For this video file photographies are utilized, with "etnographical's typologies", bombings, ruins or infantile work, related by means of the image of the water and its unbearable fluidity.
Untitled2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
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