Travelogue, 2006, instalação-vídeo, película 16mm transferida para DVD, 5’16”, ecrã de retro-projecção, madeira, projector vídeo, leitor de DVD/
Travelogue, 2006, video installation, 16mm film transfered to DVD, 5’16”, rear projection screen, wood, vídeo projector, DVD player
The video installation I’m presenting in Galleri Peep is a work that continues the investigation on the construction of social and ideological spaces through an interpretation of images. The video is a non-linear narrative made from selected footage of Portuguese propaganda films called Actualidades, Actualities. These films were made in the Portuguese ex-colonies Angola and Mozambique, (during the Fascist Regime, 1938-1972) as some sort of documentaries to be shown as news reports, just before the movies in the cinema theater.
The video shows the construction and development of new cities and infra-structures, and establishes a dialogue between them and a human presence, in a form of constant adjustment.
The footage selected from reels dated from 1958 to 1961 were carefully selected in the Department of Documentary Film of the National Archive of Moving Images in Lisboa.
The title Travelogue is a reference to a specific genre of film making which antecipated documentary film. The 'travelogue was introduced in 1893 by Burton Holmes, who was a traveller and a storyteller and his travelogues were primarily lectures, illustrated by hand colored glass lantern slides. He also made panoramic photography and films that were presented as a from of “virtual tourism”. They provided information and entertainment about distant parts of the world in the late 19th century. Travelogues were later made popular by Lowell Thomas, during World War II, and were shown in movie theaters across the U.S.'
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