Associação Cultural Videobrasil

The artist from Minas Gerais – featured in the 18^th Festival’s Southern Panoramas – gives a statement on occasion of the event’s 30^th anniversary celebrations. Bambozzi goes back to the 80s, when he first became interested in video, while still in college. He describes the Belo Horizonte art scene as “arid and desolate,” a setting he claims was conducive to productions combining various media, such as slide projection and performance. He underscores the importance of the punk and post-punk music scene and of underground poetry to the creation of this scenario. According to him, the fact that there was no local cinema and television paved the way to a looser, more experimental output that gave rise to an entire generation of artists in Minas Gerais.  He recollects his contact with the British group Gorilla Tapes’ production team during the 8^th Festival, and with other artists at the event, like Geraldo Anhaia Melo and Sandra Kogut. He addresses his collaboration for the video Mentiras e Humilhações, directed by Eder Santos and a Videobrasil prize winner in 1988. He reflects on 90s video production, when every artist set out to reveal the specificities of video. Situating his own career within this context, he comments on the creative process leading up to his Love Story, made with expired film rolls. Finally, he muses on the evolution of the circulation of video art, formerly driven by distributing companies, and currently entrusted to art galleries.