4000 disparos

4000 shots helps me to position myself in relation to the history I did not experience directly but from which I am a descendent A history full of the most traumatic episodes which I access more through readings and less through my own body through an instinctive reaction which is sensitive to me The way I react to what touches me to what disgusts me or to what I profoundly desire defines how I move It defines the political use of my existence Art helps me to approach and respond to what provokes me It also helps me to experience more wholeness along the way To make this work I used a roll of Super 8 film to shoot frame by frame faces of random men in the streets of Buenos Aires The urgency the obsession the randomness and the aesthetics of the video bring up an ambiguous atmosphere of this pastthe very amnesia in which this memory is embedded Jonathas de Andrade