¡Qué viene el metro! (projecte Can Serra)
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The video intervention project in the neighbourhood of Can Serra (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) was carried out from January to March 1978. At its origin is the Projecte inicial d'estudi de les formes de vida i cultura popular als barris de Barcelona, of November 1977, written by Video-Nou and promoted by the Fundació Serveis de Cultura Popular. Four videos were made as part of the project: «¡Qué viene el metro!», «Història Urbanística», «Escuela de adultos» and «El barrio de las fiestas»
Biography
Video-Nou was founded as a collective at the beginning of 1977. The idea for its creation came out of the Jornadas de Vídeo, organised by the CAIC (Buenos Aires) at the Fundación Joan Miró in Barcelona. The collective’s members, mostly ex-students of the CIPLA course of Barcelona’s Theatre Institute, had different backgrounds: journalism, sociology, pedagogy, photography, architecture, art and design - later, new members joined with backgrounds in urbanism, antipsychiatry and theatre arts. The collective explored the different fields of application of video: the social, the artistic, the documentary, the educational and the professional. Video-Nou’s activity gradually focused on the practice of a horizontal, bidirectional and participative kind of communication, within what was then known as “sociocultural animation”: in this case, the production of videos elaborated with the direct participation of the interested subjects, videos that were then immediately distributed and broadcast in their specific contexts - what the collective called “video intervention”. Early in 1979 Video-Nou became the managing team of Servei de Vídeo Comunitari - created as a public service -, and in March 1979 organised the first Community Video Days at the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya. In July 1979 the collective started its collaboration with the Theatre Institute, first as a non-for-profit organisation and later as a cooperative. This lasted until 1983. The main objective of the Servei de Vídeo Comunitari was to distribute and promote the use of video as a means of communication and social, cultural, educational and informative dynamisation of community life. Over three hundred people were trained, and information and distribution contacts were kept with the international net of centres dedicated to decentralised and horizontal forms of communication. The project also contributed in a critical manner to the expansion of video and local television.
Details
Duration: 25'
Director: Video-Nou
Year: 1978
Country: Spain
Language: Catalan, Spanish
Version: OV
Director: Video-Nou
Year: 1978
Country: Spain
Language: Catalan, Spanish
Version: OV
Metodology
The extension of the metro line dangerously affected the structure of some houses. The footage of those affected and the damage caused was presented at the residents' assembly, in the neighbourhood bar and square, and they organised themselves collectively in protest actions. Video-Nou's intervention in Can Serra was the first attempt to use video as an instrument of dynamisation in community life in our country.