Artist Statement

VIDEO SELECTION CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER

It was announced as the second song after the video-poem-opera Tupac Amauta First Song. But would we really have been able to sing under the bombs that the globalising European nation was dropping on our peoples? We had to turn this song into a cry.

VideoPoemOpera, 55′, France, 1999

• Gianni Toti (1924 – 2007) was an Italian poet,writer,   journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created “Poetronica” (poetry and cinema elaborated with electronic art). [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Toti]