SYNOPSIS
The film “Drawing TV”, which crowns the cycle “Tautological Cinema”, raises the theme of mass media. The artist intervenes in what’s shown on the TV screen and adds her own visual remarks using a pen. While butting into the discourse of PRL news programs, she exposes their propaganda language and their over-idealization. She uses the means that are typical of structural cinema, a movement which surfaced in the late 1960s and, by minimizing meanings and narratives, focuses on the analysis of the film structure and its material features. The shaking and glimmering screen is not only about capturing the poor quality of TV programs of that time but also about adding artistic value. It is achieved thanks to the difference between the so-called frame rate, that is the speed of the shutter in the 8mm camera that’s filming the screen and the television program being shown. [References: Ł. Ronduda, “Polish Art of the 70s. Avant-garde”, Warsaw 2009.]
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