Videograms of a Revolution

Overview

Videograms of a Revolution assembles video footage of the Romanian
revolution recorded at the end of 1989. It follows the chronology of events minute by minute as they took place: the rebellion of the people, the collapse of those in power and the execution of the emperor. At first a riot rose in the city of Temesvar but the government succeeded in isolating it. Eventually the revolution took place in the capital of Bucharest in front of the cameras, through the TV station that had been occupied by the demonstrators.The ongoing broadcast continued uninterrupted for 120 hours, establishing the television studio as a new stage on which history was to be acted out.

From the 21st of December 1989 – the last proclamation of Ceausescu – to the 26th December 1989 – the first TV report on his lawsuit – cameras recorded almost all of the most important ongoing events in Bucharest.


April 2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10