The philosopher Antonio Negri cites in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist one of his first Marxist interventions in an Italian factory in 1963, in which he says that was the first time the workers went on strike, and no one knew how the factory would react once it was left to its own devices. “There were about thirty chimneys, and at one point, a real “atomic bomb” erupted...

Then Obrist says: “An explosion!” Negri complements with: “Yes, a dreadful explosion from the accumulation of all this gas that they did not evacuate. I remember it as if it were yesterday... it was dawn, six in the morning—that’s utopia!”

“Multi-tude” is a video art nourished by constitutive powers of will, which is intricate amidst them in a field of doubt about the current moment and about the next step to take.

In this work, the chemical element hydrogen, which is present in practically everything and everyone, which constitutes a common but at the same time is destructive, traces a path between the fields of thought of the film, mainly as an agent of desire in the poetry of the Brazilian Augusto dos Anjos. The poem “A Visionary's Soliloquy” structures the video between the review of what was the multiple, and the questioning about what can embody the suffix “tude”.

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Realization and script

Fernando Moletta

 

Production

Callaloo Studio

 

Thanks to

Thaylini Luz

 

Sound track

G. PAIM - Demo

 

G-noF - Cheryl Lynn. Got To Be Real

 

Poem recitation

Roberto Mallet

 

References and Citations 

Periscope Film LLC: 1944 U.S.Navy History of Hot Air and Gas Filled

 

Periodic Videos: Hydrogen - Periodic Table of Videos

 

Augusto dos Anjos 

Solilóquio de um Visionário

 

Antonio Negri 

Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo