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New-born babies, Otis Redding, baboons, James Brown, body-builders, porno-stars, Cassius Clay, African tribes: a collage of television pictures cut and crossed at lightning speed and accompanied by the salutary lash of Art Blakey's percussion music. The jungle of today's television. Television as the mirror of the world in which we live. It is a distorted reality reflected by flamboyant amusement programmes and easy to handle chunks of pre-digested information. Television - a manipulative medium, a one-way street leading to non-communication - offers people nothing at all, if we are to believe Theo Eshetu. On the contrary, piece by piece it demolishes any attempt to approach the problems of the world in a rational manner, by consistently obscuring the essence of the situation. 'Questa e' Vita' offers a worrying picture of Italian television programming, where the proliferation of commercial cable stations tends to encourage superficiality. The televised eye-operation speaks volumes. Staring at colourful, moving images tends to encourage apathy and the managers of the mass-media are able to put their products over on the public virtually unhindered by any resistance on its part.
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Erik Quint
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Editing: Massimo Fioravanti, Theo Eshetu, Music: Art Blakey, Four Tops, Production: White Light Arte Video, With: Jean-René Lemoine, Felix Imevbore, Michela Morelli, Jamba, Leslie Stevens, Ever Jiuk and Company
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