La Revedere! (RAMBO) / trailer
Goodbye! (Rambo), a ready media work by reVoltaire
After the film Simultaneous Hypostases received an award at the Brno Film Festival, in 1970, George Săbău set up Atelier 16 at the Arad Art School, with the support of the authorities; he received 16 mm film stock, officially meant for the production of documentary films. From the film stock allocated for each documentary film, a portion was diverted for experimental films. The kinema ikon archive thus preserves 62 documentaries and 62 experimental films. kinema ikon disregarded its documentary films, considering them simple exercises from which the experimental films could be produced. Currently, kinema ikon is looking for a sensible way to revisit its own documentary material. Goodbye! (Rambo), a ready media work by reVoltaire is a good example: Hollywood blockbusters are put into (self) ironic dialogue with documentary films from the kinema ikon archive.
Rambo vs. Solarize* (1981)
Mad Max 2 vs. The City of the Householders (1975)
Pink Floyd, After the Wall vs. Scenes from kindergarten (1978)
Back to the future vs. Ergonomic Study (1975)
Dirty Harry vs. Ceaușescu in Arad (1979)
The Return of The Big Blond vs. New Homes (1984)
Terminator vs. Visual Propaganda (1979)
1984 vs. Public Transport (1988)
Top Gun vs. Technical intelligence (1983)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid vs - Horse Fair* (1978)
Benny Hill vs. August 23rd (1975)
ki doc films authors: Geoge Săbău, Plesh Brothers*