30 YEARS: Tadeu Jungle | 18th Festival

Tadeu Jungle tells of what the emergence of Videobrasil represented in the 1980s, and talks about his participation in the Festival with Herois da Decadên(s)ia, which won a prize at the fifth edition, in 1987

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30 YEARS: Marcelo Tas | 18th Festival

In the early 1980s, no one had a camera in their hand, only television, Marcelo Tas explains it. Invading the programming of TV channels was one of the goals of the production company Olhar Eletrônico, of which Tas was a part

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30 YEARS: Goulart de Andrade | 18th Festival

A leading figure in Brazilian television, Goulart de Andrade tells of how he met the Olhar Eletrônico boys in 1983, during the 1st Festival, the year in which the group made it into TV Gazeta

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30 YEARS: Walter Silveira | 18th Festival

Walter Silveira, one of the founders of TVDO, a pioneering video company in Brazil, reveals how he conceived the piece VT Preparado, inspired by John Cage and Augusto de Campos. The piece won a prize at the 4th Festival

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30 YEARS: Marcelo Machado | 18th Festival

The director Marcelo Machado recounts the beginnings of production company Olhar Eletrônico, whose pioneering work in the 1980s gave voice to common citizens, something then unheard of in Brazilian TV news programs

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30 YEARS: Fernando Meirelles | 18th Festival

The director Fernando Meirelles revisits the early years of his production with the company Olhar Eletrônico, in the 1980s, when both video and the Festival were in their beginnings

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30 YEARS: Sandra Kogut | 18th Festival

The artist, who won a prize at the 1996 Fesetival, reminisces on the early days of video in Brazil, in the 1980s, and discusses the role of Videobrasil, and the opportunity to create a piece of work at the Montbéliard Festival in 1989

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Hans Geert Falkenberg | 11st Festival

Hans Falkenberg discusses the Input 98 project, a non-profit organization whose goal is to publicize independent productions via a public television channel

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Michael Mazière | 11st Festival

In the interview, British curator Michael Mazière discusses the new generation of video artists, whose works started being shown at galleries and museums, rather than on television, as was the case during the 1980s

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Rob Rombout | 10th Festival

The Netherlands’ Rob Rombout expounds on his reasons for making documentaries. More than portraying facts, his intention is to put forth a poetic view of reality, to convert the ordinary into extraordinary

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