Media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said that “the medium is the message.” This video too is a message of its era - encapsulating the 1990s, with its style, quality and content. However, it has a contemporary weight - in today’s “post-truth” world we struggle to understand what words really mean, the information we receive at times loses sense, it becomes non-sense, void, absurd.

This forgotten footage has triggered a chain of associations, intersecting with my personal experience of history, which in many ways is also part of a collective one. Ultimately, it highlights the importance and conditionality of speech and language - more generally, the thin and blurry line between meaning and absurdity. Surprisingly enough, the most meaningful combination of words in this video are tongue twisters - they inadvertently work as political metaphors.

Ultimately, this patchwork of sounds and images brings to mind a famous statement by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”