GRP
2010 · 4m
Directed by Vicente Bonet
Tones: contemplative, provocative
This is the story of a family with an audimeter — an electronic instrument that measures television audience — and how the installation of this device affects their lives, in a critique of the world of television, reality programmes and call TV.
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Takes the most boring appliance imaginable — an audience measurement box — and uses it as a Trojan horse to dismantle the entire machinery of television and manufactured reality; the kind of premise that sounds like a joke until you realize it's a perfect weapon.
Positions itself in a lineage of media critique stretching from Godard through Harun Farocki, using the audimeter as both literal device and conceptual lens to interrogate spectatorship and consent with formal precision.
The audimeter itself becomes the protagonist and constraint — watching how Bonet builds the family's psychological unraveling around this single technological intrusion shows the discipline to let one precise image do the ideological work.