Michel Fiszbin

Au début des années 80, le monopole d’Etat sur la radiodiffusion explose et des centaines de radios libres investissent la bande FM. Le 14 décembre 1981, la radio Carbone 14 émet pour la première fois sur Paris. Elle va connaître un succès grandissant avant d’être interdite par l’Etat en 1983. Carbone 14, le film rend compte de l’ambiance survoltée de cette radio hors-norme qui comptait parmi ses animateurs : Supernana, Jean-Yves Lafesse, David Grossexe, Robert Lehaineux, José Lopez... Radio irrespectueuse, devenue mythique, Carbone 14 était l’une des stations les plus inventives et drôles de sa génération.

From falsehood to mystification to manipulation and false impartiality, the whole logic of disinformation and brutality is brought to light. When the king of the media and his politico-journalistic buffoons are sifted by a radical counter-audiovisual power, the discredit of the "elites" sanctioned by the referendum of May 29, 2005 is better understood. With this film, Zalea TV's team had decided to laugh about it and make them laugh, even if at bottom these discoveries were rather disturbing. By staging a series of very simple techniques of "self-defense", this film is an invitation to self-disengage permanently. The use of the TV-B Gone, an instrument whose sole function is to turn off the television, appears here as the ultimate resort to media criticism.