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Yes we can! (2021) HD video, two channel, color, sound, 00:14:10, variable dimensions

Through a split-screen editing, Yes we can brings together grand landscapes from amateur movies and imposing explosions recorded for technical purposes, both massively filmed in the US between 1945 and 1975 and remarkably recurring in the open-source Prelinger Archive (archive.org/details/prelinger).
A double degree of claiming power violently on the world, first by capturing it on film and then by making it relentlessly collapse. The destruction of the landscape, the destruction of the image.

Made in collaboration with Davide Parolin.