Tossing socialists in the air in Romania, 2010
ビデオスティル、2010
撮影:阪中隆文、中堀徹
協力:Pavilion Unicredt, Bucharest, Romania
Video still, 2010
Video by Takafumi Sakanaka and Tetsu Nakahori
Supported by Pavilion Unicredt, Bucharest, Romania
ルーマニアで社会主義者を胴上げする
2010, シングルチャンネルのビデオ(29分09秒)
1989年、東西冷戦の終焉を告げる東欧革命の舞台の一つであったルーマニアの首都ブカレストで革命当時および社会主義体制の社会を知らない若者の手で未だ社会主義者を胴上げしたいと、社会主義および共産主義を標榜する複数の政治団体、政治家、アクティビストなどに交渉し、その交渉の様子とやりとりを詳細に収めた記録映像。交渉過程では、革命以降どれだけ社会主義が嫌われたか、そして共産党が禁止され、それでもなお政治活動を続ける人々の姿を捉える。同時に、胴上げという突拍子のないアイデアに困惑しつつも、一定の理解を示そうとする政治家の姿、そしてラストでは地元の若者による胴上げを実現した。89年の革命を境に、断絶してしまった世代間の価値観やイデオロギー、そして過去と現在を強引に結びつけることで、忘れられない過去の遺産であった共産主義への感情的な思いと若者のリアルな言葉を同時に召喚する。
Tossing socialists in the air in Romania
2010, Single channel video (29'09 min)
In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, where became one of the stages of the Eastern European Revolution at the end of the East-West Cold War in 1989, Niwa proposes to have socialists tossed in the air by young people who do not know the society of that time when the socialist system existed and the revolution occurred. All the process of the negotiations and interactions that Niwa made with several political organizations, politicians, activists, and others who advocate socialism or communism is recorded in detail as a documentary video. Through the process of negotiation, we can grasp how much socialism has been hated after the revolution and see the people who continue political activities even though communist parties have been banned. At the same time, the video captures a politician trying to show a certain understanding while being puzzled by the idea of tossing, and at the end, a tossing performance by the local young people is realized. By forcing to bring together the disconnected values or ideology among the generations after the 1989 revolution and the past and present, this work summons up a sentimental feeling towards the unforgettable legacy of communism, along with the real words of young people.
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