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Artists Forum in Tehran on Sunday.Critic Amir-Hossein Siadat will discuss the documentary following a screening starting at 5 pm.The film
was compiled by German director Harun Farocki and Romanian writer Andrei Ujica in 1992.Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu gave his
Five days later he was executed, together with his wife Elena
Media images from the revolution that unfolded in a matter of days were sparse
Chaos and confusion reigned supreme.Farocki and Ujica collected 125 hours of film made by both amateurs and official news gatherers
From this huge diversity of perspectives, they distilled a reconstruction of the popular uprising
With meticulous attention to the facts, they took each clip and indicated the moment it was shot, who made it and with what intention,
camera position, image quality and anomalies.Scenes of outraged demonstrators and the storming of the palace, recall October (1928), Sergei
know, the 20th century is filmic
But only the video camera, with its heightened possibilities in terms of recording time and mobility, can bring the process of filming
