馬賽‧奧登巴哈 Marcel Odenbach 1978, 03:20mins

簡介/Synopsis

馬賽‧奧登巴哈和佳寶‧包笛在他們1978年的錄影片「東西兩方的對話中，批判性地將冷戰時期信誓旦旦的東西對話歸結為：敵對的雙方本來就是除了空洞的言語外，即純粹形式化的廢話外，就沒什麼可以交流的。因為交流的理由，這位德國人和這位匈牙利人只見了一次面——而且還是在他們之間的一位共同友人的巴黎住處會面。他們利用了一些標準的呈現方式，反映當時電視中常見的嚴肅性的政治報導，同時通過極簡主義，成功地表達出他們的媒體批判觀點以及政治態度。

In their 1978 video, “Gespräche zwischen Ost und West”(Conversations between East and West), Marcel Odenbach and Gábor Bódy focus critically on the East-West dialogue much en vogue at the time of the Cold War: the hostile states do not exchange anything other than soap bubbles, a purely formalistic blah-blah. For their purposes, the German and the Hungarian only actually ever met once – and, in fact, in the Paris flat of a mutual friend. With their parameters in their representation, their work additionally reflects serious political reporting, as was usual in TV at the time, and it simultaneously presents a successful media-critical and political statement through its minimalism.