Airplanes fly through the sky, they come and go from the sea to the earth, the summer afternoon stillness is broken by a rumble. Maybe this is a tragic event. Or, it is a war, and yet it is a simulated one, like it happens on the videogames screens. With saturated colours and rapid movements, the video is titled: Wargames (2004), Actually, they are banal fire-fighting planes in operation. With her video camera, Simonetta Fadda follows their way, for later cutting and assembling the shot images into four channels. The play station effect is also assured by the sound, which is live recorded but transformed in quick rhythm. Beginning from 1992, Simonetta Fadda works at her television reports, using the video camera for shooting marginal or not much visible events in the urban territory. The term alludes to the typology of the journalistic report. A good report answers to clearness, synthesis and exhaustiveness criteria. Even if its reason for existence lies in the ambition of respecting the substantial truth of the facts, Simonetta Fadda’s television report, on the other hand, adheres to the substantial truth of the language of the adopted medium. Fadda eliminates all fictional or visually metaphoric formulas, standing with her video camera in front of the real without adding in it any other meaning, with the neutral approach of those who avoid strong directions. Instead, she works on the essential components of the video language: sound, colour, density and resolution of the images. One of her
