In May 68 filmmakers such a Marker, Resnais or Godard took to the streets with their 16mm cameras to shot cinétracts: small, anonymous short films about the reality they were experiencing. Nowadays, with digital media and Internet, creating and distributing our own cinétracts is easier than ever.
With the collective Terrorismo de Autor, we will conceive and shot our own audiovisual pieces. We will create situations, think in audiovisual terms in order to discover what affects and engages us. We will subvert the figures of authority, we will play with anonymity and we will troll like there’s no tomorrow. Because Terrorismo de Autor likes to play—and also wants you to play with fire.
What would happen if the technical and political precepts of the ciné-tract (speed of execution, brevity, simplicity and communicative effectiveness) were put into practice today, using digital audiovisual technologies?