Video

The Discovery Of The Tropical World

1990, 15:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English

TAPECODE 9890

The Discovery... explores the relationship between media, personal experience and memory. The tape accompanies the viewer in a non-narrative visit to Rio de Janeiro. Starting from the media images created by Hollywood, the journey begins from above, taking off from Hollywood and landing in the city with a baggage of 'already made' views. When we finally enter the city our reaction to places and situations is very subjective: we individually choose what to see and what is striking to us. I then run back in a reverse trajectory, putting distance between what I have experienced and its context. Automatically a selection goes on in my mind through memory. And then... which of the memories will survive the challenge of media images?

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