The inner-city is burning, with detonations and screams in the night: is it a war? A special “live” report on New Year’s Eve, an intervention at the zero degree of video/TV-making. Everything is in low definition. The video images result to be dirty because they have been soiled and contaminated in the various stages of copying from the original. In the end, the images are transformed into bodies that we can no longer see. They become very close to porn and its deeper meaning, which is one of boredom and repetition. When porn becomes visible in the acts, however, it denies itself to vision: these highly manipulated video images paradoxically make what they depict invisible, so they only allow us to imagine it. No words are needed.
Genova Ora Zero (Genoa Zero Hours)1993
Digitized hi8 video, PAL, 3 minutes