Project Description

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