Revisiting Video-Nou
Between 1976 and 1979, the Video-Nou collective experimented with and applied the potential of video as a tool for social intervention, horizontal communication, and collective creation. In 1976 Franco had just died, and the foundations for what was to be a new democratic coexistence were starting to take shape in the Spanish state, with difficulties and enthusiasm in equal measure. Everything was yet to be done and said. Against this complex backdrop, video, a portable new medium unburdened by tradition, offered new spaces of freedom for creation and communication and an invitation to conversation. In this three-podcast miniseries, we sit down to talk to four members of the Video-Nou collective. Hand in hand with Lluïsa Roca, Luisa Ortínez, Xefo Guasch and Carles Ameller, we weave a polyphonic narrative that offers a direct, experiential testimony of an era. At the same time, they give us an insight into the processes of collective creation as everyday activism, as a passion, as debate, conflict and a shared path towards a freer society.