This session wants to how the strength of television to penetrate its own – self-generated, self-perpetuated – myth of immediacy: three completely different samples which, painstakingly precise, unfold moments of life which more and more are just caught “by chance”. In the flow of events there is that o-n-e moment which can be transcended and is leading to a whole array of questions, answers, and new questions. It is no accident that these unique moments of life more and more appear on amateur videos which turn into aesthetic challenge or exciting testimony.
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Eye-witness report of the fall of one of Eastern Europe’s most unyielding Communist regimes including exclusive footage – filmed clandestinely –of the…
Czechoslovakia: the heart of the revolution
From UPF
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A camera team of “Spiegel TV” was at the Bornholmer Street checkpoint on the night of November 9th and documented the opening of the Berlin Wall. One year…
Opening of the Bornholmer Street
From UPF
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“Toomfoley” tells the story of a teen-age canoeing champion who is completely disabled following an accident.
Tomfoolery
From UPF
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