Stockholm train station, a train arrives. Beta waits someone who comes from the other side. A man with a case drops off the train. Beta approaches him and tells something. He is Frederick Hansen, Abbott’s manager, a pharmaceutical company. Nembutal (also called ethaminal or mebubarbital) is a barbiturate-class drug produced in 1928; it was designed to treat epilepsy, alcoholism, anxiety. Initially it was used in the veterinary field, if taken by human the Nembutal can cause death within two hours.

With Valentina Ferrante - Egle Doria
Camera: canecapovolto - editing: canecapovolto
Shooting and editing assistants: Davide Pax and Lucia Cinà. sound design: canecapovolto

DIRECTOR’S NOTES
The videos from the “spectrum” series are the result of controversial relationships between images, sounds and texts that did not actually have links to each other.
These relations develop, from time to time, more or less unstable narrative models and assault the very notion of the author-spectator fictional contract.
We are convinced that this practice - which necessarily sees the so-called spectator as the center of representation - contributes to its liberation and that the political act must become (as the entertainment society would suggest) a dynamic practice of communication and not just a classified and clearly identifiable “content”.