Video Actions. 9 min, 2005.
Nita Mocanu

The video constitutes a short history of video activism and a presentation of recent D Media activities in this framework. [ description and stills ]

"The problem with today's video activism is that it is usually understood as activists documenting protests and demonstrations - or as people bringing their cameras where the mass media doesn't usually go. But I think this ignores a much wider history of video activism from the period of the 1960s and 1970s, when professional filmmakers 'went to the people" - to work with eschimos, for example, or with other groups and communities that had no access or possibility to be represented in the mass media. The professional filmmakers trained these people in the process of production so they could make their own films, or later, their own videos. This wider history and meaning of video activism is not connected to bringing cameras to demonstrations to document the brutality of the police or the fascism of the state; it is about giving different people or marginal groups the possibility to express themselves and produce their own video." (Joanne Richardson, in interview)