Travel Journal from an Invisible City

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By: Babelgum
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Updated: 22-Dec-09
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Added: 28-Oct-09

The video was inspired by Tamara, one of the Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Tamara is a city built with signs. The visitors come across things which don't want to be what they really are, but want to suggest other things, objects or buildings and so on. This relationship is completely similar to the one which occours between words and their meanings. Tamara deals with a semiotic speculation which pervades "Travel journal from an invisible city" as well. The video reflects on the most common fiction that can be found in our social and relational life, that is the fiction of language. This reflection is carried out by showing a city entirely made with graphemes. The grapheme, considered as the most basic sign, plays the role of an existential fundament under the motto "loquor, ergo sum": perhaps the world, as we can see it, is built day by day by our perceptional and communicational acts; perhaps the whole world is Tamara.