Through his project "TELEVISIVA", Stefano De Luigi aims to expose the cultural decline and media manipulation that defined Italy during Silvio Berlusconi's political rise.
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00:00There was a design behind all these kind of programs, and the design was to reduce, to
00:10narrow the space of democracy somehow.
00:26It has passed 30 years since I began this project.
00:44Now there is a time to see the things with the distance, with the lens of history.
00:50I wanted to give back a feeling I had since the beginning when I was working on television
00:58environment in Italy, which was this wish and this need from my side to tell about the
01:07big story.
01:11The big story was how a man who was controlling a lot of media in Italy became a prime minister.
01:20So he made this jump from the economical life to a political life.
01:27First of all, the culture of us against them.
01:32If you don't think like me, you are an enemy.
01:35There is no space for discussion.
01:38There is no space for critical thoughts.
01:41And secondly is how the women were presented.
01:46It goes with some populistic ideas to reduce the space of rights of women and reduce their
01:55image to, I'm sorry to say that, it's very brutal, but a piece of meat.
02:01The main idea was enjoy yourself with this kind of program, enjoy the life, don't think
02:09too much and for the serious thing, let the things to me to supervise the serious thing.
02:17I think now that the place that was occupied before by television now is taken by social
02:26media.
02:27Each politician has his own spin doctor and a team to communicate.
02:37I'm thinking about Meloni today, but Salvini yesterday, definitely Trump.
02:45One picture can change the world?
02:47No, definitely not.
02:49But if I can add a brick to a consciousness, even one people, for me it's a success.