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by Eugeni Bonet
by Eugeni Bonet
Introduction
Independent videographic production has had and continues to sustain a considerable level of activity in Spain since the 80s, in spite of a series of factors running against it. It has been said that video is an art whose history was written in anticipation of its existence, even to the point of including its presumed death throes. In many aspects, the chronicle of its rise in Spain is quite similar to that seen in other geographically or culturally parallel areas. It can thus be distinguished by at least four stages and generational confluences, which are in turn countered by unfavourable circumstances. Though it is probably not particularly decorous to hang out its dirty laundry from the start, in the face of more idyllic visions or rather amorphous commentaries, it seems necessary to recapitulate injustices or deficiencies that have altered the state of independent video in Spain, taking us up to the crossroads of the present, marked as they are by the challenges and rivalries represented by other media. Regardless, whoever might read these remarks will always have the opportunity to reorder them.
