VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION

Between Nicolae Ceaușescu's last official speech in public on 21 December 1989 and the first television summary of his trial on 26 December 1989, cameras were rolling the whole time, capturing the events in Bucharest almost in their entirety. Commenting on the film, Romanian philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz writes: "VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică, a project begun in 1991, was one of the first works to place audio-visual accounts of the Romanian Revolution in the foreground as objects for critical examination. Rather than reconstructing the chronology of the revolution, the film poses questions about the images themselves – their production, dissemination, transformation and mutual influence – initiating a sustained reflection on their epistemic and political status."