BRUIT (LE)

SUM

of TODOROVIC Zoran

YOUGOSLAVIA, 1999, 00:23:00

Production : TODOROVIC Zoran
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Environment, Media, Society, Monitoring

Summary :
SUM (the noise) was recorded thanks a device that is specifically designed to thwart the general idea of camera that is related to the field of public discourse, a discourse that is coded by the State and the various political and commercial monopolies. This video messages recording device has played the role of an open camera, recording the stories, improvisations and messages of the various people who wished to use it. The same camera was set up in a public square and in the common rooms of a prison and a psychiatric hospital, constituting the three scenes of the film. By picking up strong voices of different social groups, of dropouts, deviants, etc., the film calls the usual system of social representation into question, particularly the concept of the representative, of the official interpreter, the leader, the journalist, the expert, etc. This work in itself does not claim to represent anyone, but it generates a "noise" in the system of the experts' coded discourse, giving all voices, even the most discreet of them, the opportunity to be heard."
(Zoran TODOROVIC)

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