Atari Teenage Riot - ＂Revolution Action＂

What this video is

Released April 1999 on Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings, 'Revolution Action' arrived at the height of the anti-NATO/anti-globalization protest wave in Europe. The band was arrested in Berlin that same year for 'inciting violence' while performing this song during a protest against NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, where conflicts erupted between a 30,000-strong crowd and police. The EP promoted the album '60…

Why it matters

This video is a primary artifact of the digital hardcore genre at its commercial and cultural zenith — the moment when DHR's radical underground politics and noise aesthetics achieved international visibility while retaining total aesthetic uncompromise. Its editing language —…

The director

Andrea Giacobbe is an Italian-born visual artist and director, born in Florence, who has lived and worked across the US, UK, Italy, and France. He studied photography at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design. His photography has appeared in…