Following on from the previous nights event, Joanne Richardson presents her new video collaboration with David Rych, "Red Tours" (2010), followed by a discussion about counter-documentary and making art politically led by Richardson and Tobias Hering.
Red Tours
48 min, 2010.
Video by Joanne Richardson & David Rych.
A docu-fiction about statue parks, museums and theatrical...
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Following on from the previous nights event, Joanne Richardson presents her new video collaboration with David Rych, "Red Tours" (2010), followed by a discussion about counter-documentary and making art politically led by Richardson and Tobias Hering.
Red Tours
48 min, 2010.
Video by Joanne Richardson & David Rych.
A docu-fiction about statue parks, museums and theatrical re-enactments of communism. The story emerges through 3 different perspectives: an objective account focusing on the reinterpretation of communism as kitsch or as a house of horrors, a subjective memoir mixing the personal and the political to highlight the process that has turned the natives into tourists of their own history, and a direct cinema reportage told through the gestures and languages of tourists. By using multiple voices and styles, Red Tours seeks to question the meaning of documentary and the politics of montage.