ANRI SALA

Anri Sala's video Intervista (1998) begins with the artist moving house and finding an old 16 mm film in a box. On it he can see an interview with a young woman, whom he recognizes as his mother, being interviewed for state television in their native Albania. With out the sound reel the sense of the interview is lost, so Sala enlists lip-readers to restore the missing words. When he shows the s ubtitled film to his mother, she reacts to the words of her younger self with disbelief - could she really have spouted the empty .. ..