< SCIOPERO 002 >
Video Live Set

The video "Sciopero 002" a video inquest on new forms of work – has been distributed in Italian bookshops since January 2003 by Edizioni il Manifesto Libri together with the book "Gli Insubordinati" a study of temporary workers, done by Riot Generation Video.

 

< SCIOPERO 002 >
video-inquest on new work forms
a video created by Riot Generation Video

Direction and editing
Pako Graziani
Text and interviews
Diego Zerbini
Filming
Alessandra Ferraro
Pako Graziani
Produzion
Riot Generation Video
Distribution
Edizioni Il Manifesto Libri
(duration: 50 minutes)

 

<Sciopero 002> (duration: 50 minutes) is a video inquest and a journey inside the mobilisation of 23 March, 16 April, 1 May 2002. Three days during which millions of people took to the street to defend their work rights. Millions of bodies, thoughts, words. R. G. V. was inside the parades taking the pulse, the breath of a multitude in movement, as it tried to collect the thousands of stories that make up History. A video that wished to catch the event behind the event, the extra, to let workers, men and women who are fighting, be heard, to listen for a moment to their life stories as workers. Behind the slogans the bodies, the common languages, the biographies of precariousness march and speak. A video that focuses on the passions, the desires, the needs, of those who are precarious, of those who work and those who don’t, creating visual bridges, with images from files of workers’ struggles that swept Italy in other times.
<Sciopero 002> ends with the narration of working men and women who were fired by Ligabue Air Catering of Roma Fiumicino, a story like many others, told by the protagonists, an extremely symbolic story of the transformation of the labour world.

VIDEO INQUEST is a strange word.
It means mirror and means of in/formation, knowledge and stimulation of awareness processes.
It means asking and wondering, directly confronting another person.
It means acting on two fronts – by asking others, asking oneself.
It is precisely this "fragility and humanity" of the video-inquest as an instrument, its continual moving inside and outside that makes it, in our opinion, a suitable means to narrate the fragility of the condition of workers today. The acrobatics, the permanently unstable equilibrium of the temporary workers, is also our condition as workers of the immaterial

 

 "THE INSUBORDINATES"
a journey through the metropolis of temporary workers
AA.VV.
by Diego Zerbini
Edizioni Il Manifesto Libri
The book "Gli Insubordinati- viaggio nella metropoli del lavoro precario" (AA.VV. a cura di Diego Zerbini) tells 5 stories or rather a hypereal journey through the metropolis of the temporary worker. A journey on any given day, at any given time, in five stages. Five biographies, that make up one, merging in the places of the metropolis. Five still shots of temporary subjectivity that touch each other going in and out the same door or standing at the same underground stop. Their story gives a partila outline of the transformation of work, it describes long-term contracts, to term or the absence of a contract. Through a subjective narration, it tells of their emotions, considerations and hopes with an eye to the city and to the myriad of signs that intersect it.
The book begins with three interviews of Rafael Di Maio with Andrea Tiddi, Giuseppe Bronzini and Sandro Mezzadra on subjective terporary work, on its present capacity to claim rights, on the way forward so as to break the barriers created by contract fragmentation, on new rights and on the specific issue of migrants as a factor of temporary work and new rights of citizenship.
The book ends with a interview with Alessandra Ferraro and Pako Graziani of Riot Generation Video, which outlines a reflection on the use and profound impact of new technology on the comtemporary scene.