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6 videos (or more)
their selection

Every month we invite a guest to present their selection of six videos that exist online and that revolve around a subject of their choice, a favourite genre, a personal take on things or an obsession. Go ahead, take a look around our archive.

Oct. 2014
Anto Rodríguez

Mieres, Asturias.
Year 2000
8.30 pm

My dad and I set out to buy magazines for the weekend, like we do every Friday. As it happens, I?ve already read Discover Art, Muy Interesante, and Quo and I don?t know what to buy. And ? like the shadow of a moustache that has emerged in the last few days ? the shadow of doubt assails me:

- Dad, which one will I get?
- ?
- ?
- Get one that will be useful.


Madrid.
Year 2014
3.30 pm

Over the last few months in which I?ve been obsessed with stage autobiography, it has been easier than ever to make use of everything around me. These videos are an example.

I mumble a series of ideas that I sense are linked to autobiography on stage, and that are based on the real, the first person, subjectivity, montage.

I invoke these videos so that they will help me understand what is autobiographical about them.

Me

I focus on a memory. I zoom in on a detail. I enter inside. Go deeper. I sink into autobiography. Is my autobiography, by nature, a fractal?

You

You look Edie in the eyes and she looks back. You are in the present in the scene, and that?s all you have to do. And two things happen: 1. Through the gaze and microgestures, sighs and tensions, you reveal the person hiding behind the image. 2. You construct the story of that present, breath by breath, second by second, without leaving us behind. (The Screen tests are silent. It?s best to listen without sound).

Him

The staging of an autobiography that somebody had already written (the retrospective of Lejeune and any we can think of).
And the autobiographic montage that it offers us, inviting us to rewrite ourselves (actors appear in the same quadrant of the astrological chart as stockbrokers?)

Us

The stories of our memories that not even we are aware of.
One day, looking up an address in Streetview, we came across our grandmother?s knickers drying on the windowsill and the shadow of our grandfather?s arm finishing something. On Youtube, the video of that other thing turns up. Images of that moment are hidden in Google.
Our browsing history records the memories of the times that you worried in plural.

You (plural)

I anxiously follow the unfolding of the Reality Show TV format. In Spain, Sálvame Diario and Salvame Deluxe on Telecinco have exploded TV forms with their meta-reality meta-autobiographical meta-format, and that is something which affects us.
In the autobiographical formats of blogger, the videoblogger, and the Youtube universe I discover a group of Spanish housewives who have transformed their nail art tutorials into a kind of self-reality that is shaping a genre. Encarni19691 is the pioneer. She does everything: nail art and make-up tutorials, tours through her house, testing and commenting on cleaning products and make-up, conversations as she works out on a stationary bike, discussions with other youtubers in her networks, etc.
You ration the information you give us, you swap forms, you play with the editing of images, text, ideas...

Them

Walter Benjamin compared memories to a puzzle. Georges Perec told us that antique puzzles, those that were still cut by a person rather than a machine, were created in such a way that what mattered wasn?t just the final image revealed at the end, but the process of each combination. We can imagine that our memory is made up of fragments. In our memory; these fragments combine to form different patterns, and each new combination reveals new memories in a kind of generative memory.
Playing with memories like Kuleshov played with the celluloid frames and seeing what happens.