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BORDERS >
television format planned and created by
Riot Generation Video
The Project
< BORDERS > is a project that proceeds in phases.
Each phase corresponds to an episode of 40-45 minutes.
It contains 6 episodes that will be transmitted monthly from 24 September
2004 on the satellite channel PLANET.
Each phase/episode contains different stories with a common theme, connecting
the various video- text fragments that act as links.
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makes its moves on the boundaryes between documentary _ video-inquest
_ docufiction_
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focalises on facts and stories that are on the margins of History and
at the same time create History.
…It tells of a world made up of many worlds, and therefore, even
if tragic, wonderful.
The frontiers are places - non places that symbolise our time
… places - non places where different stories, people, languages
meet
…hybrid places that by their nature are pulsing with life
The border-lines
are places suspended between a ‘before’ and an ‘after’
places of passage, extreme places, as extreme as life and death….
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episode n.1
on the satellite channel PLANET
Friday 24 Settember 2004 h. 21
Replays 26/09 h.19:10 - 28/09 h.08:45
02/10 h. 24:40 03/10 h. 10:45 -
08/10 h.24:38
The first phase of BORDERS contains three inquests – stories that
are seen from different perspectives around the question of CONTROL
in contemporary society.
One phase deals with stadiums as experiment labs for new forms of repression,
as for example, the use of CS gas by the public order forces behind
the goal areas, (gas later used massively during the protests of 20
and 21 July 2001 in Genoa). Reflecting on stadiums (and the passionate
supporters who fill them) as the last and un-guaranteed link in the
‘show-business’ chain which today’s football has become.
With an inquest into the anti-prohibition movement in Italy and “how”
its proposals are received by civil society.
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“GAS
CS “
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Riot Generation Video
duration: 16’ – 2004
From the names of the chemists Carson e Stoughton who synthesised it,
CS gas – banned by the Geneva protocol of 1925 as a chemical weapon
– paradoxically is part of the instruments for crowd control on
the basis of a convention of 1993 signed by 174 countries.
CS tear gas is a common denominator in police repression all over the
world. Used in Seattle, Quebec, Genoa, Londonderry, Waco, Seul, Palestine,
Malesia, Perù as in many stadiums for the repression of ultrà
movements.
The video of Riot Generation Video “Gas CS”is an inquest that
focalises through direct and scientific testimonies on the devastating
impact of this composition on public health.
The video records the words of E. Magnone of the Department of Chemistry
and A. Abbondandolo Professor of Genetics at the University of Genoa,
N. Canestrini a lawyer of the Genoa Legal Forum and A. Pilotto SILP
for CGIL trade union, propose an analysis of the dangerous mutagenous
effects of this gas.
“FOOTBALL”
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Riot Generation Video
duration:10’ - 2004
A video on the on-going changes in the world of football and of the
Ultrà in Italy. A reflection on the political, cultural and economic
transformation connected to the process of globalisation. Changes that
the Ultras movement has undergone (for better and for worse), remodelling
both itself and the way of being a supporter in the twenty-first century,
in a world full of contradictions and questions, all of which are still
very current.
“NO
WAR ON DRUGS”
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Riot Generation Video
duration:12’ - 2004
An inquest into “what” the anti-prohibition movement in Italy
is today, shot in part during the mobilisation launched by a vast alignment
of associations, parties, social centres, in 2004 to contest the Fini
law.
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