INPUT / … / … / A world under the electronic spell

Technologies accumulate: first radio then television, now satellites, computers. And they provide an unending stream of information. Words begin to lose their sense. History and propaganda become indistinguishable. The concepts of space and time flow together. Can the human mind, its values, social institutions keep their integrity? Four programs attempt to treat this immense subject, employing a range of video special effects. Transposing the life and texts of Armand Robin, the French poet and translator who became a universal radio-listener during the magical Fifties, THE WORLD OF A VOICE is unrestrained fiction that unravels the vision of a modern Faust facing world-wide propaganda during thousands of magnetic nights. BAYLON BLASTER is a silent scream and a TV-poem, a visual journey through the ruins of history. In a completely new documentary format, the third program tries to answer the question WY WE MEN LOVE THAT MUCH TECHNOLOGY. It mixes cycled images, art and politics, statements by American painter Jack Goldstein, French urban architect and philosopher Paul Virilio and German Video artist Klaus von Bruch.