Item 3535 - Translating the other / When translation becomes violence

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Reference code

ES OVNI RSC-3535

Title

Translating the other / When translation becomes violence

Date(s)

  • 2010 (Accumulation)
  • 2010 (Accumulation)

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Item

Extent and medium

Video

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Repository

Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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Scope and content

The video intervention examines a scene from Antonioni's L'eclisse and frames the racist and sexist structures with which the film operates. The main character of the film visits her neighbour, who is the daughter of Italian colonisers. Her apartment is full of souvenirs. The female visitor, inspired by the interior, "blacks up" and adopts an imaginary ‘wild' and ‘tribal' dance. The video intervention tries to reveal the patterns of framing non-white culture as ‘otherness', a projection charged with a conception of uncultivated wilderness. In combination with an objectified female body, this position connects otherness with ‘naturalness' and ‘bareness'.

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Accruals

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Press: No; Catalogue: No; Itinerancies: No; Online archive: No; Television: No

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Language of material

  • English

Script of material

    Language and script notes

    Physical characteristics and technical requirements

    Llengua: Inglés. Països: Germany

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    Note

    Revisar Subtítulos Master es mini dv PAL falta sinopsis en catalan falta sinopsis en castellano

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    translating-the-other-when-translation-becomes-violence

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    Description identifier

    ES_OVNI_2010_schker002-translating-the-othe

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    OVNI

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    Status

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Language(s)

    • Catalan

    Script(s)

    • Latin

    Sources

    Archivist's note

    copyright

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