Alessandra Pioselli

“ If in the first case there is a live-broadcasted report, subjected to such a medium manipulation to be deceptive (the war that there isn’t) , in the second, it is something other what is happening. Stargate is a wharf on the sea, a gate on the nothingness, a sign forbidding the way forward, where there is just the water. The video camera makes only one movement, a zooming, which slowly enlarges our visual field. The final image reveals the remains of an ex industrial building, no more in use, next to the shore. The sea’s dull and monotone'sound sharpens the sense of suspended time. ”

“ Airplanes fly through the sky, they come and go from the sea to the earth, the summer afternoon stillness is broken by a rumble. Maybe this is a tragic event. Or, it is a war, and yet it is a simulated one, like it happens on the videogames screens. ”

“ On the other hand, there is the alternative information movement and everything involved by a political and social use of the video medium, from video activism-born with the diffusion of portable anc user-friendly video recorders-, to the low-resolution standard for propagating the theoretical and political importance of the power of live-capturing the events’ and life's flux-with the assumption of getting more truth. So, for staying in Italy, Anna (1972-1975) by Alberto Grifi, which shows to what the visual grammar of low resolution: what we see is what it is, transfigured into image. ”