[Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens"

[Albert Alcoz]

Hello,

I'm writing this email to share a video essay titled "All the Dark Screens"
created by the curator Alexandra Laudo and me under the project *Soy Cámara*
by the CCCB:
http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229

It is a 25 minute video –with an Spanish voice over– where some esthetic
and ideological issues are exemplified through experimental films and
artist's videos:

*In a society dominated by the power of screens and images, audiovisual
darkness can be a strategy of resistance. We tend to associate screens with
light, but darkness has been consubstantial with audiovisual creation since
the dawn of the cinema. “All the Dark Screens" presents a fragmentary
genealogy of the use and presence of opacity and the absence of image in
cinematographic and video creation, and reflects on the poetic and
political power of these forms of audiovisual iconoclasm, and on their
relation with our ways of seeing and not seeing.*

The points of departure are the video/action by Scott Stark switching off
public TV monitors ("A Better World (for Rick P)"
<https://vimeo.com/11156435> ) and the idea questioned here by Yoel Miranda
on October of 2007 ("how much of what we see is black?"
<http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw36/0610.html>).

Since it is an informative and pedagogical video, with dozens of short
clips by independent filmmakers credited at the end, would be great if you
to share it through social networks.

All the best,
Albert Alcoz
-- 
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