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    Videograms of a Revolution

    Videograms of a Revolution

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    October 9, 2011

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    Directed by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica
    Germany 1992, 16mm, color, 106 min.
    German, Romanian, English with English subtitles

    After fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution in 1989, the Soviet bloc was showing signs of imminent collapse. The uprising in Romania that overthrew the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December of that year was extensively documented on video, whether shot by ordinary citizens or by professional journalists. Additionally, cameras in the studios of the state television network captured the enormous effort to report events as they unfolded, as well as the very physical struggle for control of the network itself. Ujica and Farocki edit this footage into a gripping account of the weeklong revolution while implicitly pointing to the ever-increasing importance of images and image-making in public life. Although the title refers to the overthrow of Ceausescu, the film marks another revolution: cinema's distanced gaze at history being supplanted by the live-ness of television.


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        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
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        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        October 9, 2011

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        7pm

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