Get Rid of Yourself (2003) dir. Bernadette Corporation

Get Rid of Yourself is a videofilmtract addressed to those who anonymously embody the return of political activism within Empire. While its initial sounds and images were filmed during the riots in Genoa, 2001, these materials are pulled apart and recomposed in order to locate the intensity of a shared experience, rather than producing one more documentary version of the programmed and hypermediatized confrontation of the G8 countersummit. Elaborating a complex and rhythmic form of address via sound, image disjunctions, cheap video effects and performance, the film declares its own exile from a biopolitical spacetime where nothing ever happens. The crisis it announces is the sudden return of history, but this time without characters or a story, and of a politics without subjects.