Censored film titles from the shown video
© Tate Conservation
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There are a total of 1,014 separate film titles which are shown
over a duration of 80 minutes. Each title is shown for approximately
5 seconds before it fades into the next title. The titles are
accompanied by the intermittent sound of a clarinet. Garaicoa’s
wife holds the position of first clarinet for the Symphony Orchestra
of Cuba and here plays 'Sequenza IX' by the composer Lucino Berio.
Garaicoa thought carefully about the introduction of music to
the piece. In an interview with Tate conservation, he explains
how he hates the use of music with video, if the music is not
good. However for this piece, he felt that the addition of contemporary
instrumental music would add something and draw people in.
My wife is a clarinet player and I loved this
music from Berio, it is very strong with a lot of energy. I always
listened to her playing that, I’ve been thinking that I would
like to do something with video that would fit the music because
the music is very intense. I came up with this idea and I said
that it is very strong, the song, the clarinet, very intense.
And then, the reason that we play twenty minutes on and twenty
minutes off is for people to rest.
