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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.
<BORDERS>
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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BORDERS >
episode n.2
“AGAINST
GLOBAL WAR
hic sunt leones “
on
the satellite channel PLANET
Friday 29 October 2004 h. 21
replays
02/11/ h. 20:12
07/11 h. 2:33 - 07/11 h. 12:22
12/11/ 24:32
13/11 h. 14 - 14/11h. 09:42
18/11 h. 24:54 - 20/11 h. 14
22/11 h. 17:41 - 24/11 h. 10:56
planning,
directing, editing:
Riot Generation Video
in collaboration with Global Tv
Premise:
The war in Iraq is imprinted in our eyes, the ferocity and the tragedy
that continues in the post-war (which is in reality a war).
In this scenario we consider it important to continue to “be the
voice” of millions of men, women, children all over the world who
are opposed to war.The second episode of BORDERS of Riot Generation
Video “Against Global War_hic sunt leones” focuses on the
mobilization in Rome on 2 June 2004 against the military parade and
the 4 June 2004 against the presence in Italy of George W. Bush.
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“Hic
sunt leones" the Romans wrote and the cartographers of antiquity
used it to mark the territories where there were unexplored lands, areas
that were not under imperial power, lands not subdued, in short, Hic
Sunt Leones, a way of saying “Out of Control”.
The mobilizations in Rome on 2 June 2004 against the military parade
and the 4 June 2004 against the presence in Italy of George W. Bush
designed, in multiple ways, a new map of the city indicating where the
war would not pass, where there are “lions” and not tanks.
Riot Generation Video followed the contours of the protest maps of the
2 and 4 June, recording the words of those against the war and the politics
of war, of those who assert that the troops must be withdrawn from Iraq,
imprinting in the digital eye the images of “Rome, an open city”
that resists the war.
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