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Squeezangezaum

Squeezangezaum

film/video
1988
90'

Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.Squeezangezaum is Gianni Toti's fourteenth "opera poetronica". His abounding creativity connects poetry, science and imagination in multiple new ways. Using sophisticated videotechnology and a vast archive of pictures, Toti unfolds the history of Russian films which he transforms by video-specific means.
This work is committed to the ideas of the Russian poet and theorist Velimir Vladimirovic Chlebnikov (1885 - 1922). The strange title alludes to his oeuvre: " Zaum’is the transmental language which the futurist had created and on which his opera was based. Toti's language is explicitly onomatopoetic and will remain in the original (Italian) version.

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