ROMEVIDEO is an attempt to display simultaneously in one single time/space axis, a complex and layered reality where evolution and modernity cannot divide from history and past. A two channel projection, a dual vision in parallel, two different looks of the same city, not an ordinary journey through famous images but a rescue of edge zones we watch but rarely see. THE PROJECT ROMEVIDEO - between past present, private political, hope disenchantment, urban centre suburbia, idyll struggle, night day, film video - was commissioned by RECYCLART lab of Brussels in the show CARTOLINA ROMA, about the European capitals, Paris (2001), Berlin (2002) and Roma (2003) portrayed by artists, directors, writers, photographers, in a public space of urban confrontation. In 12 minutes a dual vision in parallel two different looks of the same city and rhythm, but one aside the other they fuse in a third life that through Rome wishes to speak about the world, the human being and his contradictions. In a passage without time: historic, oneiric and real, subjective and objective. The video installation project takes some roman ancient literature’s texts as a starting point. In particular “Saturae Menippeae” by Marco Terenzio Varrone (107 B.C. - 27 B.C.), the father of the roman erudition, in some of his 620 books (Sextagesis - the 60 year old man), that imagines of being sleeping since he was a child of ten years old. When he wakes up he is 60 and sees the world as if was the first time and with an uncontaminated eye. ROMEVIDEO is an attempt to display simultaneously, in a single temporal axis, a complex and stratified reality where evolution and modernity can not leave history apart from its past. It is a journey not only among architectural and worship images that most of the people know and adore but also in zones where light does not arrives and the glance does not stops distracted. Colours in which density remain only the time to a barely touch, to capture on the fly before the city sinks in the darkness, a darkness that is never much dark. The monuments crossed by demonstration parades are not any more an archaeological tour, rather testimonies of a present that will be future history.
