From May the 7th to the 11th, inside the TEKFESTIVAL, at the Space for new visions at Cinema Nuovo
Aquila, it will be exhibited VIDEOCABINE by César Meneghetti. This artistic audiovisual project (working in
progress) has beginning in 2001 inside a documentary film, and it has been developed to design a small
visual and sonorous human atlas. The VIDEOCABINA (videobooth) is a metaphor of a non‐place,
transportable and where people were invited to express freely their own ideas on existence. Living
portraits, testimonials of the inhabitants of various regions of the planet. Interviews of men and women,
who tell their way of conceiving the world. A space simulacra of the human condition where Europe,
Africa, America, Asia and Oceania are connected and isolated at the same time. In this not‐place, a sense
of culture and belonging to the humanity is recreated. To this first appointment, it will be introduced
VIDEOCABINA #1 (Italy) and #2 (Niger).

VIDEOCABINA #1: VIDEOSABINA (ITALY, EUROPA, LUGLIO 2006)
Inside of a video‐booth placed in the public square of a village, the inhabitants of a small country of the
Sabina tell an ancient ritual, been born like religious festivity in order to honor the Corpus Domini. The
information is accumulated, more often contradicted… but it is a rare opportunity to reveal itself, place
and people, a way to speak about life, death, art, love, mankind, God. Made in collaboration with
Elisabetta Pandimiglio.

VIDEOCABINA #2: KEITA (NIGER, AFRICA, 2007/2008)
VIDEOCABINA #2 is part of the K_lab ‐ interacting on to reality interface, artistic project by César
Meneghetti in collaboration with Enrico Blasi, Sam Cole and Matthew Mountford. Part of a multimedia
exhibition that has been on December 2008 and January 2009 at MLAC (Museum Laboratory of
Contemporary Art of Rome), and cured from Simonetta Lux and Domenico Scudero. Entire shot in Niger,
between June and November 2007, the work is centered on the inhabitants of Keita, a borderline
between the Zone of the Sahel and the Sahara, a place where man has stopped the desert. Collecting
their testimonies, the Meneghetti exchange with the native people thoughts, emotions, reflections on
several themes on existence, such as God, love, life and death.
CÉSAR MENEGHETTI is a Brazilian-Italian visual artist and filmmaker based in Rome. His work is centred on
social issues, migration and the concept of borders, political, social and individual edges, the interaction
with people and media between the North and South hemisphere. He uses the cinema medium as well as
film, video, photography, painting and installation in art to give images a new approach to the world.
Through the mix of various technical supports he uses these electronic/digital instruments to extract and
isolate frames of reality and re-elaborate them in a new context. He has shown his art work in more than
34 countries around the world and has made about 60 films and videos including 2 feature films, 5
documentaries, 53 short films and experimental videos. In the last 23 years he had received 59 awards,
prizes and scholarships for his work.