Toni & Diego Garbini
nés en / b.:1967 & 1973, Sarzana, Italy
video: "You’ve turned me into / armchair”, 2011, (excerpt: 04.51min.)
nés en / b.:1967 & 1973, Sarzana, Italy
video: "You’ve turned me into / armchair”, 2011, (excerpt: 04.51min.)
voix off / voice: Philippa Peckham
screen grab courtesy the artists & domina video
texte de Toni Garbini. Luca Lazzoni écoute Caruso en fumant et en buvant de la bière.
screen grab courtesy the artists & domina video
texte de Toni Garbini. Luca Lazzoni écoute Caruso en fumant et en buvant de la bière.
screen grab courtesy the artists & domina video
text by Toni Garbini. Luca Lazzoni listens to Caruso while smoking and drinking beer.
text by Toni Garbini. Luca Lazzoni listens to Caruso while smoking and drinking beer.
screen grab courtesy the artists & domina video
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texte pour "body no / body", extrait
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Teatro Ocra - dominavideo
Cultural Association
texte pour "body no / body", extrait
"... Diego & Toni Garbini, avec l'extrait d'installation vidéo "You've turned me into / armchair", nous présentent aussi un homme, que nous voyons dans son intimité et dont on nous décrit une étrange faculté, paranormale?, activation de fonctions refoulées du cerveau?. Où chimie et magie, récit et description, s'agrègent sans se dissoudre mutuellent, la voix off égrène une série de phrases dont les registres sont changeants, le seul repère est cet homme, assis, en prise avec lui-même pour qui nous demeurerons aussi des étranges étrangers. Lui s'en tient à son flux de conscience: "I'm content, necessarily, but not to the point of clapping my hands. While waiting I shall tell myself stories if I can".
Malone Dies, S. Beckett ..."
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"You’ve turned me into
the armchair
Intimacy is not visual, it is not a show
Luce Irigaray
The image of a man. He’s sitting on a armchair, drinking beer. He’s smoking. He looks calm, listening to classic music. A voice - off is talking with a journalistic style about an insurance consultant, and then after a while, starts talking in the same tone, about the investigation of a monster who killed two little girls and dismembered their bodies, and so on.
What kind of relationship is there, between images and words?
Which role does the information and entertainment system play in our perception of reality?
Sensations produced by images are affected by words.
Images and sounds change constantly and ask me to open up to a further interpretation.
This project looks into the relationship between image and word.
It deals with the relationship between the event and the interpretation of it, according to the projective logic of sense attribution. The endless building of the world, realized by the entertainment industry, it’s here related with the emptiness from which that same industry protects us. Like in a sort of cut up process, texts combine the language of cinema’s trailers, psychiatric textbooks and news. The resulting text becomes a voice - off sounding like facts descriptions in a documentary style. Ambiguity is therefore given by the relationship between words and images, between what is described as a fact, and what is presented through images.
Language, as instrument for denoting the world univocally, crashes into the ambiguous multiplicity of reality. This project points out the need for breaking the continuity of representation usually offered by mass media.
This video wants to give a plural vision, not based on the prevailing of one fragment on another. The real meaning, the sense of the sequence, can be found only in the space between fragments, in the fracture within speech continuity.
In the fighting between the sense attribution and the rhythm of the image’s development, the project aims to focus on the image itself, beyond what we are used to perceive in it.
The wish is to question the symbolic and metaphoric attribution of sense assigned to images."
Toni Garbini
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Teatro Ocra - dominavideo
Cultural Association
Via Canalburo, 139
Sarzana (La Spezia)
Teatro Ocra\ dominavideo is a cultural association founded in 2001 by the Italian brothers Toni Garbini (Sarzana 10- 07- 1967) and Diego Garbini (Sarzana 19- 03- 1973).
Both graduated at Parma University, they developed respectively an interest in contemporary dance and theatre, and the relationship between theatre and video in Italy. Toni and Diego Garbini gained their experience through workshops and professional theatrical performances, focusing their interest in direction, editing and technical scenic installation. Through years their work has focused on social reality, exploring issues connected with prison or psychiatric institutions, physical or mental inabilities and adolescence years, producing theatrical performances, video documentations and video installations. Today Teatro Ocra - Domina Video is pointing its research towards the relationship between video documentary, literature and experimental cinema.
2011
Fragments from
“ A common place” 20''
Documentary
By Toni e Diego Garbini, produced by Regione Liguria, Comune di Sarzana
2010
“You turned me into” 22'
Never exhibited to the public, it is part of an international project curated by e.space generic gallery, Mitry-Claye, Paris
The moving day, 35'
Video Installation and Performance
By Toni e Diego Garbini, produced by Comune di Sarzana, Ass. Teatro Ocra
With Midori Watanabe and the collaboration of Alvin Curran
Music by Alvin Curran
Festival Sconfinando 2010
2009
Un ricordo, 5'
Fiction
By Toni e Diego Garbini, produced by OGAP Association and in\ DIPENDENZA (Carrara) in collaboration with La Provincia di Massa Carrara
Finalist at the Festival Filmmakers al chiostro , Mediateca Pordenone 2010
Il Nodo Annodato, 40'
Documentary
Written and directed by Toni Garbini. Filmed and edited by Diego Garbini. Produced by Teatro Ocra and Domina video, Special Mention of the Jury within the section “Obiettivo Liguria” Genova Film Festival 09.
2008
Fantapresenza Chapter 0. 14'
Documentary
Written, directed and edited by Diego Garbini. Produced by Teatro Ocra and Domina video, Sarzana (SP).
Catalogue “Free Shout Festival” 2009 di Prato.
Il soccombente. 10 min.
Documentary
Written and directed by Toni Garbini. Edited by Diego Garbini
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