Videocracy

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Film Information:
Year:

2009

Videocracy
Países:

    
Director:

Erik Gandini
Color:

Color + B&W
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

85 min

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Erik Gandini
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Manuel Alberto Claro, Lukas Eisenhauer
  • MONTAJE: Johan Söderberg
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Erik Gandini

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • CDI Films
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  • C1025ABG Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Synopsis

This film is not so much about the genealogy of Silvio Berlusconi’s power, nor it is an explanation of the power of the image; nor a denunciation of the effects of television after thirty years of numbing consciences, gagging opinions, buying wills, stultifying generations, and lethally wear out a wide and decisive political and cultural tradition. Videocracy is rather a round trip through time to see how the logic of TV shaped a political class and, by extension, an entire country. The immediate success, the rise and fall of unknown characters, money as the only trade logic, frivolousness as a State purpose, and the elimination of democracy as a system of consensus are some of the key points in this devastating documentary. Erik Gandini’s entire device –forcefully set, yet with a very precise awareness of the uses of comedy– tries to show us the backstage and characters who made this mutation possible, and leaves us with the unanswered question of whether there’s no going back from this.

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