Videograms of a Revolution

FAROCKI and UJICA's "Videograms" shows the Romanian revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest in a new, media-based form of historiography. Demonstrators occupied the Bucharest television station and broadcast continuously for 120 hours, thereby establishing the television studio as a new historical site. Between December 21, 1989 (the day of Ceaucescu's last speech) and December 26, 1989 (the first televised summary of his trail), the cameras recorded events at the most important locations in Bucharest, almost without exception.