A classic black-and-white film image shows two actors, a man and a woman, dressed in sixties style. They are in a décor that is in fact the mere suggestion of a room: a framework with a lamp, set up on a mountain somewhere. The actors repeat, verbatim, audio fragments from old Italian TV broadcasts. For these, Rä di Martino resorted to material from the Cinecitta archives, dating back to 1930-1970, and moreover asked a group of people about their first or most striking TV experience. Via the two actors, the films and moments that these people watched on TV come alive, and in this way we can hear what they thought and felt when they saw them. 'La Camera' seems to be about our media-pervaded reality, about the illusions, dreams and realities that TV and the cinema enable us to perceive. (Esma Moukhtar)
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- this work has been part of the CASZ-program between October 2007 and November 2008 -