Painter and sculptor Martial Raysse manipulates images at the ORTF studio in Portrait Electro Machin Chose, notably the portrait of the singer Zouzou (video transferred to 16mm), while Dieter Meier presents a self-portrait against the backdrop of a talking clock in the work 1 Minute, produced for the Swiss national television. In Portugal, Helena Almeida questions the constraints that women are subject to, uttering in a performance the words “hear me”.
In Studio situation or Video A, Pawel Kwiek gives instructions to operators in a live performance for the Polish Television, while VALIE EXPORT, working with the Austrian broadcasting company, deconstructs the role of television in family settings.
Set in Iceland, Rúrí’s Rainbow documents a performance in which a rainbow made of fabric is burnt (16mm film later transferred to video) while Gerry Schum conceives his Identifications to feature twenty European and American artists, all acting out minimalist performances.
The programme closes with Roda Lume, a lost and remade video poem by E.M. de Melo e Castro.
In the cinema lobby, a monitor brings video works to the small screen, Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis deconstructing the notion of time through brief one-minute performative actions.