The so-called 'Generation loss procedure' refers to the loss of quality between subsequent copies or transcodes of data. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, and would cause further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. As a result, the video signal is decayed and the image becomes almost unrecognizable in the last copy, one copy being one generation. The video tape used in this work was copied 20 times, meaning it has 20 generations.

Before the Revolution of 1989, a series of video tapes circulated in a clandestine manner. They contained the latest films from the Western World. Due to the extensive copying, however, most of them suffered from generation loss. The films were literally worn out. Bressan and Sittar's Generation Loss shows footage of one of the important buildings in Bucharest, Ceausescu's palace, which has continuously been raising many moral, political, social, and architectural issues since the fall of the Communist regime over twenty years ago. By placing the image of the House of the People - which nowadays is the seat of the Parliament and of the Senate - into the same context, an attempt is made to destabilize the enormous power that this architectural object still holds over the landscape of Bucharest. The scale of the building and its central location in the city makes it easy to forget that an area the size of Venice was razed to the ground in order to erect it. 40.000 buildings disappeared overnight. The inhabitants were removed from their homes and the core of the historical city was completely destroyed in a time of peace. This event has no precedent in the European history of the 20th century. A mausoleum for the Ceausescu couple, the building cost 3 billion Euro at a time when the whole population of the country was close to starvation.

Validated by tourism, current politics, and nostalgia, the House of the People is slowly becoming the image of the capital city of Romania.