OVNI 2005 RESISTANCES 25th to 30th January Observatory Archives Research: Translators: A project by OVNI Dee Dee Halleck Nuria Rodríguez [Observatori de Video No Identificat] Serene Hulelei Denise Cord'home UFO [Unknown Frame Observatory] Xavi Hurtado Eduard Escoffet Joan Leandre Mariano Martino Welcome: With the collaboration of: Oriana González Ada, Mauro Centre de Cultura Contemporània Toni Serra de Barcelona. Rabia Williams

Programming: Press: Joan Leandre Irene Ruiz Toni Serra Regidor: Production: Mariano Martino Rosa Llop Graphic Design: Technical Production: Jordi Calvet Simona Marchesi Ovni 2005 Image: Production Assistants: « Ocean Life » Alain Kugel Roberta Tranchida Massimo Pietrobon WEB: Judith Nadal Robert Blank Mikel Llop Marc Peris Subtitles: Liz Peñuela VIDEOLAB OVNI 2005 Observatory Archives Resistances www.desorg.org Observatory Archives The Observatory Archives are structured around particular themes and have a Opening night, January, 25th clear purpose: to encourage a critique of contemporary culture, using different Special program, strategies: video art, independent documentary, and mass media arch a e o l o g y, . . . from 20.30 pm to 23.00 pm The Archives cover a huge range of works that are very different from one ano- Program of screenings: ther, but share a commitment to freedom of expression and reflect on our indi- Thematical screenings of new tapes vidual and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they offer a multifaceted added to the archives. view, thousands of tiny eyes that probe and explore our world and announce From the 26th to the 30th of January: other possible worlds. It is a discourse that above all values heterogeneity, plu- parallel screenings in the Auditorium and rality, contradiction and subjectivity, an antidote to the cloning and repetition the Hall, from 17 pm to midnight of corporate mass media. Sala B, from 19 pm to 23 pm. Subtitles spanish. Given that the call for entries organized by OVNI every 18 months is theme- based, the works selected over the years offer a reading, a kind of rec o r d of some Presentations and performances: of the dreams and nightmares of our times. We have seen the range of issues Globale, Rogelio López Cuenca, Gemma and preoccupations become more focused over time, from works with very diver- Ma r tín Muñoz, Cryptome, Cheb Balowsky. se themes in OVNI 1993 to 1996 (extending and exploring the video medium, regaining the formal and specially the thematic freedom of its early years), to Consultation of the Observatory pro g r essively narrow down to increasingly specific themes: identity versus media Archives: (1997-1998), community (2000), globalisation (2002), Post Sept. 11th (2003). Free access to the entire Observatory Archives collection. From 12 pm to 23 pm In the 12 years since it began, OVNI has acquired more than 1000 documents in the Hall. and works for the Observatory Archives.(dvd, Spanish subtitles). OVNI 2005 RESISTANCES What seems certain is that the Western imaginary needed to construct itself in opposition to another even larger and less exact invention: the Orient. The idea of “the Orient” was born as a result of the expansion of The word resistance is starting to gain currency in places and cultures all the “colonial powers”, and applied equally to the entire area ranging from over the world, joining those that have never stopped practicing it. the Maghreb to the Far East. As a new object of desire, it joined other pre- Resistance implies negation, the blocking of a process or power, but it viously conquered “uncivilized” territories, “indigenous peoples”, or the also contains an affirmation: that there are other elusive “el Dorado”, etc... ways of doing, thinking, living. Minorities and majorities marginalized in their own land practice It’s important to recognise that the idea of the it in various active and passive ways. Today, this West itself was also constructed through the nega- practice is bringing together very diverse cultu- tion of its own diversity and heterodoxy, the violent res and peoples, some totally unconnected, that negation of its own history(ies), and required the a re starting to become aware of each other, to invention of an imaginary and exclusive genealogy talk of each other amongst themselves in this in which one period succeeded the next, unoppo- struggle. sed: classical antiquity, the Roman empire , Christianity, rationalism, the enlightenment, positi- These resistances with their different origins and vism, capitalism...all of them reinterpreted as gen- languages are being exercised against the expan- tle stereotypes with no violence or edge, ready for sion of a hegemonic “single thought”, a single way identity consumption. And so the “classical” was of understanding history and progress. This is redefined as aristocratic origins already domina- often called “the West”, ...an amorphous, symbolic concept that initially ting the proto Orient or the “Persian enemy”, the Roman empire as a cruel referred to Europe, in particular the old European powers called the “wes- but unifying force, Christianity as a sometimes fanatical and hypocritical tern powers”, and then as the economic system expanded, to the United but in the end civilising force, the Enlightenment as liberating and huma- States of North America and even its allies in the Far and Middle East. nist in spite of its despotism and colonising approach to knowledge. And Now the West seems to refer to an economic system and the culture it to top it off: the idea of never-ending, linear, acritical progress; and of produces rather than the geographic sense. capitalism as the ultimate guarantee of freedom ... The gradual technolo- gical hegemony is added to the succession and has arrived to test its rai- bal processed products is increasing on the free(?) market. The concept son d’etre and its power. of intensive and industrialised agriculture is literally being imposed, an idea in which all processes: genetically modified seeds, fertilisers, pesti- This genealogical construction rests on the global society of consump- cides, etc...form a single package... The planet’s natural resources are tion, and its hard core that has concentrated in the web of interests of the coming under the prism of private property and exploitation, not just raw giant oil, pharmaceutical and military industry companies, which project materials and fuels but also water, on which speculating investments are a spectacular world through the mass media. A starting to converge. Public and private medicine way of colonising desire and fears through images is infiltrated by the interests of the pharmaceutical and slogans, but above all a mechanism for rever- giants, not only in the virtually undisputed empire sibility, in which not only success and triumph but of chemical medicine, but also in the concept of also tragedy and disaster, even our own, are instantly what public health implies, fighting, discrediting or tu r ned to profit through the spectacle of consump- ignoring preventative practices and their inesca- ti o n . In this process, the idea of a single economy pable link with education. In fact, the education based on permanent and aggressive growth and system’s most utopian end seems to be ergono- the dogma of technological euphoria play key mic adjustment to the needs of “the market”. To roles. Even moderate voices calling for sustaina- introduce content or practices that are not neces- ble models don’t try to depart from this radical sarily even critical, just foreign to these needs, is economic model, they may modulate the degree perceived as noise, an obstacle. of aggressiveness, but not growth itself. The global society of consumption is so because it consumes to the point of extinc- The mass media is mainly fed by ready-made news from the few major tion not just products but also natural res o u r ces, people and communities. news agencies. As a group, their effect is a constant resetting of events, which are presented as a series absurdities. They propagate the idea of This expansive economy is generating a state of permanent conflict with a hyper-privileged West in contrast to an “underdeveloped” and always many fronts: obviously military interventions, repression, occupation. But suffering world, that could only possibly be of interest as a tourist desti- also in the field of food: local products are increasingly playing a minority nation (and, in fact, “tourists get to the places where armies don’t”). In role (whether marginal or elitist) and the presence and accessibility of glo- this way, day by day, they create a single perception of poverty and wealth. The third-world media image of a boy soldier participating in ting our knowledge and practical diversity and for self-criticism in relation incomprehensible wars, that touches the consciences of so many, never to the totalitarian, exclusive aspects that exist in almost every culture. In finds its parallel in the increasingly common image of a western child this respect Europe and by extension the West, in spite of the majestic devoting hours to violent videogames, with some of the best-selling role it has assigned itself in the history of humanity and the construction games being versions of military training prog r a m s . of freedom and human rights, can hardly claim to have a model rec o r d in te r ms of racial, religious or national tolerance, even But in these areas too, resistance persists and is c o m p a red to neighbouring culture s . growing, not always ideologically or consciously, Paradoxically, even some parts of current critical and in ways that are different because they res- thought and activism too easily reproduce and pond to specific contexts, cultures and traditions extend ethnocentric criteria. that vary widely from each other. We should then speak about resistances. Some of these arise OVNI 2005 Resistances will program and then from western critical thought, the remains of ship- include in the Observatory Archives a series of wrecked liberating ideologies, alternative practi- audiovisual works (155), mostly independent ces, new foundations and connections... Others documentaries, media arc h a e o l o g y, agit-pro p , arise from the indigenous rhizome that extends that tell us of diffe r ent forms of resistance and con- unevenly throughout the world and knows that fl i c t s . From their diverse origins and backgrounds, constant aggression against the earth and nature these resistances are confronting single thought is a self-destructive process, destroying our and its aggressive economics, a hegemony inhe- resources and also our knowledge, as a thousand rited directly from colonialism and ethnocentrism Alexandria libraries were burning at the same time. Other radical resis- that seemed to be things of the past, but have taken on new strength with tances arise from cultures, like the now-demonised Islamic culture, a cul- the expansionism of the USA and the empire of transnational corpora- ture that is barely known and which has suffered almost 10 million victims tions. Its hard core is the new world order, or the more recent and prec i - (1) in the last decade while the West remained largely silent,... and from se new American century. But these resistances cannot be red u c e d to anti- many other positions, religions and practices that increasingly need the Americanism, as this only represents the tip of an historical and econo- awareness of the others and mutual respect. A key dialogue for accep- mic iceberg which is much deeper and larger, though not always visible. In most of the works we’ve compiled over the last two years we discove- OVNI 2005 will also include presentations from special guests and pro- red the expression “resistance”, as a call to action and as a reality in pro- jects: Berlin’s Globale FilmFestival, Rogelio Lopez Cuenca talking about gress. In the Zapatista autonomies communities “Resistance” and “Water “El Paraiso de los Extraños”, Gema Martín Muñoz presenting “Critical and Autonomy”, in the Mapuche indigenous people “Marici Weu” (we will discourses and alternative voices from the Arab world” and John Young win one hundred times over), in Bolivia “Fusil, metralla, el pueblo no se and Deborah Natsios talking about their cryptom.org project, a web site calla”, in Argentina “la tierra es nuestra” and that publishes documents banned by govern- in the path taken by Venezuela “La ments all over the world, specially those rela- Revolucion no será Televisada” and “Pueblo y ting to freedom of expression, cryptology, lucha en la 4rta Guerra Mundial”,...in the anti- double-use technologies... (see program). globalisation movements “Turbulences”, and “Miami Model” in the protests against the IMF All of these resistances, which represent only and the FTAA, ..in the Palestinian intifada a small part, also outline a map of possible “Who is the Terrorist”, “Gaza Strip”, “Arna’s references and dialogues that are becoming Children” and “We are Allah’s Soldiers”, in the i n c reasingly important among these diff ere n t antizionist resistance in Israel “Democracy traditions and heterodoxies. An invitation to isn’t Built on Demonstrators Bodies”, in the think, build other worlds, discover existing Iraq occupation “The Real Face of the worlds that are hidden by screens of igno- Occupation” and “Iraq. In the name of r a nce and prejudice, by stereotyped images F reedom”, and in the whole Arabic and of the other. As an old woman in Arg e n t i n a Islamic world “American Campaign to p rotested, “the other is me”. To stereotype Suppress Islam”,...in the underemployees of corporations “Mayday. San others is to stereotype ourselves. Precario”, in the people who lose their rights when they cross borders “ C rossing Borders”, “Paralelo 36”... and in the more local conflicts in In the 18th Century, the andalusian mystic Ibn Arabi wrote: “freedom uni- our own city, which reflect the speculation and spectacular culture tes us, unity frees us”, a statement that can me read on many levels, one being imposed all over the world, “El Forat de la Ve rgonya”, “Patare m which could be: Freedom unites us as free women, men and communi- el Forum”... ties, and this unity frees us. Programs OVNI 2005 RESISTENCES Observatory Archives Tuesday 25 January Wednesday 26 January 6.20 pm Inauguració Marici Weu, 20', Manuel Palacios, Rodrigo 5 pm to 12 pm HALL - AUDITORIUM Paz, collectivo Buenos Aires / Indymedia 8.30 pm video, Argentina, 2004, dvd 142. Opening night special program (2hrs) 5 pm A Mapuche family has been forced off the land they Te rror and the Ti m e, 70', Victor Jara were occupying in the province of Chabut, Collective, Rupert Roopnaraine, Ray Kril, Patagonia, through a court injunction initiated by Susumu To k u n o w, Lewanne Jones, Gloria the Benetton Group. As a result of this experience Lowe, USA, 1979, dvd 141. the Mapuche people will reveal that they are still The Terror is British colonialism and cold war impe- very much alive and willing to fight for their culture rialism The Time is 1953. and traditional rights. This documentary treats colonialism and wester n This video is also an information tool to activate an cold war imperialism in the context of the British international campaign against the Italian multina - army invasion of Guyana in 1953. Focusing on the tional, which owns 900,000 hectares of land in economic and cultural repression of the Guyanese Argentina, making it the major landowner in what people, the Victor Jara Collective captures the force was once known as "the breadbasket of the world". of the historical events that clarifies the struggles of The first part of a more extensive work in progress. the working and peasant class. Centering around historical references, interviews and nine Poems of 6.40 pm Resistance by Martin Carter, the film deals critically Ford Transit, 70', Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine, with the total impact of the period. It reveals the 2002, dvd 143. complex nature of colonialist domination in daily life The documentary follows the taxi-van driver Rajai presenting images which examine the psychological who tries to live and survive in Jerusalem and consequences of poverty and oppression. In exami- Ramallah. We see the problems in the region ning the effective use of Carter's poetr y, which was through his eyes. Rajai is the guide in the labyrinth banned in Guyana, Eusi Kwayana, leading member of war, occupation and resistance in a chaotic area. of the working people's alliance, sees the collection He leads us over detours and mountain dusty roads as a cultural product to enrich the struggle with passed the roadblocks and bit by bit we get to "ideological nourishment." know more about him and his thoughts. The pas- sengers in the van, the places he gets to and the 9.10 pm tion of rights, bordercrossing and deportation, war activities he explores besides driving a taxi conjure Soraida, a woman in Palestine, 54', Tahani and corporate power, fight and hope. Cinema as a up a divers image of the situation in Palestine and Rached, Palestine / Canada, 2004, dvd 146. space for a critical public and films as a political of Rajai himself. Soraida is a Palestinian woman who lives in medium - in and beyond the movie theatre. Ramallah, in the occupied territories. This video The globale is a one week filmfestival that takes 7.50 pm captures her personal struggle to retain her huma- place in Berlin, presenting films, organizing discus- All the tired horses (Frames / Fragments), nity in the midst of oppression. In her neighbourho- sions and offering workshops for and together with 3', Glória Martí, Spain, 2003, dvd 144. od, the women do not all wear veils, the men do a diverse group of participants. It has a special part How I am supposed to get any ride done? not rattle off empty political slogans, and the young dedicated to getting in touch with and starting dis- people do not have bombs strapped to their belts. cussions with pupils and teachers. Until mid-2005 7.55 pm Life goes on despite the curfews and checkpoints pa r t of the globale05 program is going on tour throu g h La Revolución no será Televisada, 74', Kim that confine the people in a barless cage. Soraida different towns in Germany, perhaps even Europe. Ba rt l e y , Donnacha O'Brien, Venezuela / Irel a n d , invites us into her world, and that of her family and (Throughout the year we are involved in political 2003, dvd 145. neighbours. Through their simple, everyday actions, fights and activities going on around us, in what we Chavez, elected president of Venezuela in 1998, is a we discover the worst thing about living under a call political interventions: supporting the anti- colourful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his state of siege: the loss of control over one's own deportation campaign by our cooperating partner nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixo- life. In this vibrant plea against the occupation, FIB (refugee initiative Brandenburg), participating in tic opponent to the power structure that would see Soraida shares her reflections on life in Palestine the European Social Forum, organizing workshops him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were and her refusal to give in to the hate and violence. during left-wing-union conventions with our partner inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, labourB.) when he was forcibly removed from office. they 10 pm HALL Presentation Organized by a heterogeneous group of political were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, activists, artists and filmaddicts the globale is an he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their GLOBALE 05 [Berlin] invitation to common reflexion and participation - film records what was probably history's shortest- www.globale-filmfestival.de because political films need political movement. lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about 'Be more than a spectator - doing politics in political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the and beyond the cinema' 10 pm AUDITORIUM Screening man the wall street journal credits with making The curtain is rising for globale05 - spectators to Venezuela "Washington’s biggest Latin American protagonists, consumers to producers. The world in 4th World war, Big Noise film, 78', USA, headache after the old standby, Cuba." close-up for seven days: Exploitation and depriva- 2003, dvd 127. From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, 7.10 pm and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the VIP, 15', Eduardo Díaz, Spain, 2004, dvd 148. we admire the strength of conviction while being North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on The secrets behind Dr. Linus Tyler's psychoactive tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. baking. The alcohol industry wants to buy the for- here the struggle against nature has taken over the The story of men and women around the world who mula for Vip, a new product that threatens to redu- political struggle. resist being annihilated in this war. While our airwa- ce its massive profits. Dr Linus Taylor not only refu- ves are crowded with talk of a new world war, ses, he gives up the opportunity to market it himself 7.50 pm narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of and goes public with the formula. De c a s i a , 75', Bill Morrison, 2001, USA, dvd 150. bombs, the human story of this global conflict Decasia is composed entirely of decaying, nitrate- remains untold. "The Fourth World War" brings 7.25 pm based archival footage which seems to melt, burn, together the images and voices of the war on the Babashivananda, 10', Alberto Martos, Spain drip and deteriorate before our very eyes. In his ground. It is a story of a war without end and of / India 2004, dvd 148. search for striking examples of emulsion deteriora - those who resist. Varanasi, India, 6am. 2nd week of the shoot. The tion, Morrison examined close to a thousand archi- The product of over two years of filming on the insi- heat is already unbearable. Among the alleyways of ve prints from numerous collections. But Decasia is de of movements on five continents, "The Fourth this sacred city, someone invites me to carry out an no mere celebration of the psychedelic beauty of World War" is a film that would have been unimagi- interview. I don’t understand what he is saying, but I decay, for Morrison has deliberately chosen images nable at any other moment in history. follow him. which seem to push back against their own physi- cal disintegration. 7.35 pm SALA B Countours of Staying, 12', Caraballo- Farman, USA / Argentina, 2004, dvd 149. 7 pm Every Saturday, members of a group called Falun Giving an Enema, 9', United States Navy Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on Training Film, USA,1944, dvd 147. 42nd street in New York City to protest and medita- This fascinating media archaeology document from te. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They sta- the US Navy shows us a marine administering an yed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by enema to his brave companion, following the official external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by method approved in US Navy manuals. From the wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resi- “The Subject is Sex” collection. lience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity Thursday 27 January

5 pm to 12 pm HALL - AUDITORIUM

5 pm Happy Bithday Mr. Mograby, 77', Avi Mograbi, 1999, France / Israel, dvd 151. The birthday of this video's fictional filmmaker, Avi Mograbi (also the name of the real director), is the same day as the 50th jubilee anniversary of the founding of Israel, a day observed by Palestinians as "Al Nakba" or the Catastrophe. Mograbi is hired first by Israeli television to film the events leading up to the jubilee and then by a Palestinian producer who wants him to film the ruins of Palestinian villages and towns in Israel. To make matters worse, he is enmeshed in a real esta- te deal with his neighbours and enraged buyers arguing over property boundaries. The collision of these three anniversaries, two film jobs and a dis- pute over property lines takes this fictional "docu- mentary" into the depths of Israeli and Palestinian daily life and a shared 50-year history.

6.15 pm Miami Model, 91', Indymedia Collaborative, USA, 2004, dvd 152. In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 coun- tries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threa- 8.10 pm mission from his 95 year - old mother, who doesn't tens to devastate workers, the environment, and Nablus, la ciudad fantasma, 32', Alberto understand why he has to go to India, of all places, public services like health care, education, and water, Arce, María Moreno, Palestine / Spain, 2004, instead of "civilized "countries, like France or Japan and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diver- dvd 154. . Amos says farewell to his wife and takes off for a sity across North, Central, and South America. Against An inside view from the streets of the events that journey into the unknown . Capital's model of paramilitary oppression, informa - took place over one week in the Palestinian city of tion warfa r e, and corporate rule, we offe r ed models of Nablus in August 2004. The camera takes us into 9.45 pm grassroots resistance, creative action and solidarity. the world of children who play at being soldiers in Crossing Borders, 17', Heather Lares, USA, an army that has stones and motives as its only 2001, dvd 156. 7.45 pm weapons. In the midst of Israeli gunshots and Border Crossings / Cruzando Fronteras touches on Democracy isn't build on demonstrators bombs, a dialogue takes place with soldiers who crucial issues that surround the increased militariza- bodies, 25', it’s all lies, Israel, 2003, dvd 153. sometimes seem more frightened than their own tion of the U.S. / Mexico border. The United States On December 26, 2003, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) victims. The camera, with a group of international Border Patrol, now part of the new formed deliberately shot at Gil Namati, a 21 year old Israeli activists and paramedics, follows the soldiers as Department of Homeland Security, has a history of protestor that demonstrated against the separation they search the city house by house. The internatio- abusing its power. Examples of this abuse range fence/wall. Gil was shot in both legs by two live bullets. nal presence also acts as an "occupier-witness" of from sexual assault to unnecessary use of deadly The incident created a media storm and raised many the zone of impunity in which Israel regularly acts. force. question . What would have happened if the IDF did- n’ t lie about the shooting of Gil Namati/ Would it have 8.45 pm 10 pm HALL Presentation justified the actions taken by the security forces? Is Thanks God for India, 57', Nisan Katz, Israel there a difference between shooting a Jew and a / India, 2000, dvd 155. Rogelio López Cuenca non-Jew? This film is divided into three parts, the "Thank god for India " is a documentary that deals www.malagana.com first part presents the investigation which was shown with the generation gap between young Israeli tra- “El Paraíso es de los Extraños” is a (de)tour through at the press conference and proved the IDF was lying vellers in India and the conformities of society in the ways in which the image of the Arab-Islamic about the reasons for the shooting, the second part Israel today . The film also takes a look at the new world is constructed in Western culture, by analy- criticizes the investigation itself and how the media Israeli subculture that has developed in India as a sing the recurrence of particular stereotypes, their reacted and portrayed the incident and the separa- result of this gap. The film follows 72 year old Amos origins, and their persistence in the visual arts (tra- tion barrier, and the third part is a propaganda piece Mosenzon, who decides to venture to the country ditional fine arts, photography, film..), the mass about the “danger” anarchism poses in Israel. he's always dreamed about - India . He asks per- media and advertising. It focuses specially on our own cultural context here and now: Morocco as the before a camera which picks out detail via a subjec- nearest “other”, the myth of Al Ándalus as a model tive approach, thus opening up a new existential for exploiting integratable anomalies, and the media reality for the spectator. treatment of contemporary migration phenomena. 8 pm 10 pm AUDITORIUM Screening Fusil metralla el pueblo no se calla, 18', Edwin Villca Gutierrez, Rudy Menacho Mozon, We are Allah Soldiers, 52’, Hanna Musleh, Bolivia, 2004, dvd 159. Palestine,1993, dvd 158. In 2003, the government headed by ex-president Discusses the Palestinian Hamas movement in Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Carlos Mesa comparison with Fatah. The program explores the (Bolivia's current president) passed a new Income ideological underpinnings of the Intifada, coordina- Tax act, provoking a police riot that was subse- ted by Hamas and transmitted to the young in edu- quently repressed by the armed forces. The citizen cational sessions and public gatherings. The ideo- protests that took to the streets were also repres- logy stresses the central importance of Islam in sed by the military and snipers. social and political life of every Muslim. 8.20 pm Días de Cartón, 51', Veronica Souto, Pablo SALA B Robledo, Justo Daract, Argentina, 2003, dvd 160. 7 pm The 'Cartoneros', an army of the shadows - more Relatos de la Periferia, 57', Jacobo Sucari, than 100,000 strong -who assemble each night to Argentina / Spain, 2003, dvd 140. scavenge the city's street and rubbish dumps for "Tales from the Periphery" looks at the changes cardboard to sell for a pittance. These people com- currently taking place in the world's second largest mute to their place of work like foraging animals, river basin, that of the River Plate Delta in herding themselves onto the 'White Train' which rat- Argentina, and reveals aspects of the lives of its tles through the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the bat- people. tered shells of carriages devoid of doors, windows, The everyday rhythm of these lives slowly unfolds seating or lights. Friday 28 January 5.35 pm Zapatistas. La Resistencia, 20', Promedios, 5 pm to 12 pm HALL - AUDITORIUM Mexico, 2001, dvd 161. Public security and the imposition of the Mexican 5 pm armed forces in different parts of Chiapas: Nazareth ¡Escuche Bunachi!, 17', Yezid Campos (San Manuel), La Galeana, La Garrucha... Zornosa, Colombia, 2004, dvd 159. Upset by the pressures of the white man, a group 5.55 pm of indigenous people assemble in a Columbian Planet of the Arabs, 9', Jackie Salloum, USA, apartment to ask the “bonachi” (white man) to leave 2003, dvd 129. them alone. "Planet of the Arabs" is an experimental short illus- trating Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehu- 5.20 pm manization of Arabs and Muslims by making use of Zapatistas. La lucha del Agua, 15', TV and film clips to create a "preview" for the ulti- Promedios, Mexico, 2001, dvd 161. mate Hollywood movie. Many of the indigenous communities in Chiapas have no access to potable water. Water and 6.05 pm Autonomy looks at this serious problem and how Doublethinktank I. 3', Alexander Peterha e n s e l , the Zapatista communities are solving it. Through Germany, 2004, dvd 172. solidarity and training from internationals many For after all, how do we know that 2 and 2 make communities are now building their own water four? or that the force of gravity works? or that the systems. past is unchangeable? The doubts of Winston Members of the communities speak about ways Smith (main character of George Orwell’s novel the water project fits into their autonomous pro- 1984) and found footage from "Operation Iraqi cess, helps fight sickness, has provided a means Freedom" are the starting point for a meditation on of reflection for how to protect existing water the state of the human being. sources and represents another means of resistance to globalization projects like the Plan 6.10 pm Puebla Panama. Persons of Interests, 63', Alison Maclean, Tobias Perse, USA, 2003, dvd 130. based real-time combat game that allows players to also about command, information, logistics and After the Sept.11 terrorist attacks, more than 5,000 experience the intensity and gritty realism of urban fires networks, distributed sensors, and unmanned people, mainly non-U.S. nationals of South Asian or combat warfare. As Squad Leader, take command vehicles both aerial and terrestrial, all working toge- Middle Eastern origin, were taken into custody by and coordinate the actions of two infantry squads ther to make the future American soldier persuasive the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on (Alpha and Bravo) leading them through a hostile in peace and invincible in war. grounds of national security. Muslim immigrants urban warzone. were subject to arbitrary arrest, secret detention, 8.20 pm solitary confinement, and deportation. Many were KUMA WAR missions allow subscribers to expe- Britain master of Colonialism 24', Hibz ut- denied access to legal representation and commu - rience first-hand some of the toughest fighting in Tahrir, khilafah, UK, 2004, dvd 164. nication with their families. the global war on terror because each mission is A unique portrait of Britain and how when it embra- based on real-world events. Missions are developed ced Capitalism set out to colonise other nations so 7.15 pm and delivered to your computer with unprecedented as to secure its material interests and spread capi- Iraq.The Real Face of the Occupation speed so you can experience these critical current talism and its values. This film vividly portrays (Shocking and Awful), 20', Jacquie Soohen, events soon after they happen. Britain's colonialist policies, and how it enforced Brandon Jourdan, Deep Dish TV. USA / Iraq, political, military, cultural and economic control over 2004, dvd 162. ICT. Part of the University of Southern California, other nations in order to exploit them, policies which How U.S. military occupation looks from the other the Institute for Creative Technologies is an award- continue today, particularly in the Muslim world. end of the gun barrel. winning research center that advances the state-of- Was Abu Ghraib an exception or merely an extre- the-art in virtual reality and immersive environments. 8.45 pm me? How has Iraq changed since the fall of The goal of the ICT is the creation of the Experience Gaza Strip, 74', James Longley, Palestine, Saddam? What is life like under occupation? On- Learning System (ELS), which provides the ability to 2002, dvd 165. the-ground footage shows the humiliation an d learn through active, as opposed to passive, American documentary filmmaker James Longley dehumanization inevitable in a colonial situation. systems. ICT will create the ELS by harnessing cre- travelled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, plan- ative talent from the entertainment and game deve- ning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary 7.40 pm lopment industries and leading edge research on material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He Babylon Archives, 40', Abu Ali, Retroyou, simulation technologies such as Artificial threw away his return ticket and stayed for another Ovni Sisterhood, Spain, 2004, dvd 163. Intelligence, Graphics and Sound. In addition, spe- 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR: Based On A Training cific military training tasks (Future Combat throughout the Gaza Strip. GAZA STRIP follows a Aid Developed For The U.S. Army*, is a squad- Systems).But FCS is not just about platforms. It is range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first nities, and objective trusts with material taped pre- members affirmed the legitimacy of the Palestinian major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces dominately while moving through Ljubljana, Zagreb, claim to live in their own land... during this intifada. The film is filmed almost entirely Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Skopje. The subjects con- in a verite style, presented without narration and versing come from a range of constituencies; 8 pm with little explanation, focusing on ordinar y migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, residents (per- Galoot, 100', Asher de Bentolila Tlalim, Israel Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. manent and transient), students, workers, and cul- / UK, 2003, dvd 167. tural producers, recounting experience, locating Galoot (Exile in Hebrew) is an intimate saga that 10 pm HALL Presentation sites, shifts, events, and the theorizing and accoun- touches on the seeds of the pains and tragedies ting of the issues at stake, with associated ambient now transformed into the entrenched Gema Martín Muñoz: “Critical discourses imagery forming specific histories of locations, and Palestinian/Israeli conflict. A temporary exile from and alternative voices from the Arab World”. locations of histories at the intersection of cultures his homeland allows an Israeli filmmaker to see the Gema Martín Muñoz, Professor of Sociology of the in this/these particular place(s) and time(s). conflict with new and provocative eyes. Through his Arab and Islamic World at the Universidad Autónoma Palestinian and Israeli friends and through his and de Madrid. Among other projects, she is the author 11.30 pm HALL his wife's personal journeys, Galoot provides a of the books “El Estado Árabe. Crisis de legitimidad reflective voyage through homes and deserted y contestación islamista” [The Arab State: Crisis of Cheb Balowsky. homelands in Israel, Palestine, Poland, Morocco Legitimacy and Islamist Opposition](Bellaterr a , and England. 2000), “Irak. Un fracaso de Occidente” [Iraq, a wes- tern failure](Tusquets, 2003). SALA B

10 pm AUDITORIUM Screening 7 pm MATZPEN - anti-Zionist Israelis, 60', Eran Untitled part 2: Beauty and the east, 51', Torbiner, Israel, 2003, dvd 166. Jayce Salloum, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, At a time when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovenia, reached a stand still, the director has the courage Austria, USA, Canada, 1999-2003, dvd 132. to allow central figures of Matzpen to speak once Addressing issues of transition, alienation, refusal, again. Matzpen were an anti-Zionist group who identities, ethno-fascism, body as object & meta- were subject to abuse and social and political isola- phor, agents, monsters, abjectness, subjective affi- tion in their native Israel for 35 years: because its Saturday 29 January

5 pm to 12 pm HALL - AUDITORIUM

5 pm Wa Baad, 15', Anas el Aili, Ramah, Wafa Hourani, Palestine, 2002, dvd 168. Anas ek Aili works with Palestinian children in Ramallah. Independently, they create a video to portray their surroundings from their own perspecti- ve and their understanding of the language of video.

5.15 pm Mane Tajawwul (Forbidden to Wander), 35’, Susan Youssef, Palestine / USA, 2004, dvd 168. The experiences of a young Arab American, Christian woman travelling on her own in the occu- pied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the summer of 2002. The film is a reflection on the complexity of Palestinian existence and the disturbing "ordinariness" of living under constant curfew. Forbidden to Wander is also the journey of personal discovery for the filmmaker, the wanderer who falls in love with a Palestinian man in Gaza.

5.50 pm I m p e ro (In God We Tru s t ), 30', Cane- Capovolto, Italy, 2003, dvd 169. The post-war period and the New World Order told through documentaries, war films, propaganda and dered if Seattle was under attack. Other Capitol 7.55 pm photographs. Waco, Oklahoma City, September 11, Hillers optimistically attributed the racket to a gar- American Campaign to Suppress Islam, 28', the war on terrorism and Special Laws, the "Other den-variety fire or freeway pileup, albeit one serious Hibz ut-Tahrir / Khilafah, UK,2004, dvd 164. America" and the destruction of the 10 amend- enough to require the screaming attention of every This video documentary charts how since the end ments. Impero is born from the need to bring toge- ambulance and fire truck in town Meanwhile, those of the Cold War, which culminated in the collapse of ther counter-information and journalistic rigor, conti- in The Stranger's offices gazed down onto the sour- the Soviet Union, only two main ideologies remain - nuing the operation that began with the radio spots ce of all the trouble--eight or 10 guys in sharp suits Islam and Capitalism. It explains how the Muslim "Iraq 2 special edition", "death for sale" and "the and hats, paired off on corners, where they alterna- Ummah has continued to embrace Islam despite black mirror of democracy". tely ran jumper cables to screaming siren-boxes the fact that is has been removed from their practi- and bleated through distorted megaphones. cal lives and the international sphere after the des- 6.20 pm truction of the Khilafah; and how in its absence, the Baghdad in no particular order, 51', Paul 7.30 pm standard bearer of Capitalism, America, has a initia- Chan, Iraq / USA, 2003, dvd 170. 1991 NextHundredYears,15' Abu Ali, 1991- ted a dangerous campaign targeted at making A video essay of life in Baghdad before the invasion 2004, USA / Morocco, dvd 172. Capitalism prevail in the world. and occupation. Men dance, women draw and 1991 is a key date in the construction of the global Sufis sing as they await the coming of another war. empire. At the start of the first Gulf war, George 8.25 pm Notes, gifts, promises, paintings, trash, and other Bush "the father", paraphrasing a soldier, declared: Venezuela Bolivariana: Pueblo y Lucha de ephemera from the city which is now hardly a city. “I don’t think we’re in this war over the price of a la IV Guerra Mundial, 76', Marcelo Andrade, What if Walter Benjamin didn't kill himself, learned barrel of oil, we’re here to define the future of the Kesang Sherpa, Venezuela, 2004, dvd 173. html, bought a camera, and thought himself useful world for the next 100 years”.. The Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connec- enough to work in an impending war zone?. ted to the worldwide movement against capitalist 7.45 pm globalization. The evolution of the popular move- 7.15 pm Meen Erhabe (Who is the Terrorist?), 10', ment in Venezuela from the "Caracazo" riots of Moukabir Sawte (Noize Redistribution), 15', Jackie Salloum, Palestine / USA, 2003, dvd 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutio- Infernal Noise Brigade, USA, 2003, dvd 171. 129. nary president Hugo Chávez back to power, 48 Tues March 25, 5:30pm. It started with an ungodly Video footage questioning who is the terrorist and hours after a U.S.-led military coup in 2002. The racket. Half air-raid siren and half screeching feed- why. Reflection on the daily conflict in the occupied main theme is how the Bolivarian Revolution, back, the noise pierced all ears within a half-mile territories accompanied by Rap music produced by thanks to its incredible grassroots and networking radius. Diners in a restaurant on 15th Avenue won- youth under occupation and inspired by the Intifada. power, is a revolution that transcends the national frontiers of Venezuela and contributes with concrete 10 pm HALL Presentation SALA B al t e r natives to the fight against neoliberal capitalism. www.cryptome.org 7 pm 9.40 pm John Young & Deborah Natsios The Gas Man, 28', Iban del Campo, Elena What Barry Says , 3', Knife-Party, UK, 2004, Cryptome publishes documents that are prohibited Mari, Spain, 2002, dvd 177. dvd 172. by governments worldwide, in particular material on Mohamed Ramzam is a Pakistani who has Simon decided to record Barry delivering a monolo- freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use earned a living delivering gas bottles in the gue exploring US imperialism and the project for technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret neighbourhood of "el Raval" since arriving in the new American century. This speech became the go v e r nance -- open, secret and classified documents Barcelona in 1990. Despite working these last focal point around which animation was construc t e d . -- but not limited to those. Documents are removed 12 years Mohamed doesn't receive a salar y “what Barry says” is very much a response to from the site only by order served directly by a US and lives from day to day on the tips he Simon witnessing his peer’s apparent lack of inte- co u r t having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been receives from the customers.He has managed rest in the anti-war marchers between the attack on served; any order served will be published on the to bring his wife and three children from Afghanistan and the second gulf war. Many young site -- or elsewhere if gagged by order. Legal bluffs Pakistan and they live in a warehouse situated Londoners seemed to feel that they could do will be published if comical but otherwise ignored. in the heart of this working class area where nothing to stop the attack on Iraq, so why bother the Muslim ideas and traditions of Pakistan are 10 pm AUDITORI Screening held dear. 9.45 pm In Limbo, 43', Simon Arazi, Belgium, 2001, E d w a rd Said.Orientalism, 40', Sut Jhally, 7.30 pm dvd 175. USA, 1998, dvd 176. Paralelo 36, 65', José Luis Tirado, Spain, "In Limbo" is a collage edited from American satelli- Edward Said talks about the context within which 2004, dvd 178. te feeds intercepted by the artists Marko Peljhan the book "Orientalism" was conceived, its main the- The 36th parallel is an imaginary line on a map and and Brian Springer between 1990 and 1997. The mes and how its original thesis relates to the con- also the real site of clandestine emigration across material comprises unfiltered back-hauls from raw temporary understanding of "the Orient." Said the Gibraltar Strait. live feeds of news networks (before they are packa- argues that the Western (especially American) The emigrants are the protagonists of Paralelo 36, ged with voice-over, music and commercials), as understanding of the Middle East as a place full of which combines fact and fiction, gestures, words, well as corporate and governmental broadcasts for villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamenta- dreams and desires. A story woven from the over- the employees and trainees of the respective com- lism produces a deeply distorted image of the lapping micronarratives that map the Southern panies and law-enforcement institutions. diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples. European border. 8.35 pm They talk to us about their work, the journey that 9.36 pm Yomango Tango, 7', Yomango, Spain, 2002, brought them to Barcelona and their families, Intermittenti dello spettacolo, 27', France, dvd 174. among other things. We visit some of the places 2004, dvd 174. From MAYDAY2004, P2P Fightsharing 02 where they tend to congregate: the Rambla del From MAYDAY2004, P2P Fightsharing 02. Yomango did its Christmas dis-shopping. Raval, telephone centers, Barceloneta beach and One day they will do with reality what they’ve done What better way to celebrate the first anniversary the three Chimneys. with TV. You will only have the right to leave the of the Argentinean revolt than to take advantage house if you pay a 150 euro monthly fee. If you of the generous Christmas deals at the 9.05 pm don’t pay up, everything you see will look blurry. supermarket - a supermarket that happens to El Encierro en la Iglesia del Pí, 20’, Rabia have greedy tentacles reaching all the way to Williams, Spain, 2004, dvd 157. 10.10 pm Latin America. The special offer on Champaign, This video of a migrant sit-in in a Barcelona church Call Centers, 5’ India, 2004,dvd 174. "take 14, pay for none!" seemed particularly is part of a long-term project about the struggles of From MAYDAY2004, P2P Fightsharing 02. appealing. The next day, Yomango Tango legal and illegal migrants.This segment describes “IT for Change, a network linked to the international penetrated into the head office of the Santander the sit-in on a night in June 2004 as experienced network DAWN, has carried out a study of globali- Bank to uncork the bottles and drink a toast inside the Iglesia del Pí, documenting the sation from a feminist perspective...” to the Argentinean people. Thus they brought to assemblies held by the migrants under pressur e “Operators in the telecommunications call centers the heart of the city, under a shower of of the government,major trade unions and the of the south work under extreme conditions in order Champaign, their war cry: "que se vayan todos!" police, followed by the declarations made through to maintain contact with the north...” - calling for all of them to go away ("them" usually the press. refers to all politicians, but here it starts with the multinational corporations and banks that suck 9.25 pm Argentina dry). Pacipaciana 11', Italy, 2004, dvd 174. From MAYDAY2004, P2P Fightsharing 02. 8.45 pm ... Flexible work, an unpredictable and precarious Pakistanis en BCN (Captura el Raval), 20', life, infowork, expropriation of communal space for Mohamed Laiti, Galeem Uddin, Muhammad use by the transnational companies that rule the Suleman Tahir, Moises Paredes Amad, Spain, empire... the precarious working conditions in which 2004, dvd 138. millions of people find themselves within the global A glimpse into the life of Barcelona's Pakistanis. society that is being constructed. Sunday 30 January

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5 pm El viaje de Mazin, 55’, Fèlix Merino, Iraq / Spain, 2003, dvd 179. What is daily life like in Iraq? Do you think they have more rights now than they did under the yoke of Saddam? How do they deal with the growing inse- curity that has seized this Arabic country? For the first time since operation “Enduring Freedom”, a journalist spends several weeks living with families in Baghdad, in order to report on their day to day lives. And he does it by following the steps of Mazi He r mes (Nqwa, 1961), an Iraqi living in Barcelona who returns home after spending thirteen years in Spain.

6 pm Pateram, el Forum, 20', A collective work with independent cameras by Rabia Williams at Okupem les Ones, Spain, 2004, dvd 157. In the summer of 2004, citizens of Barcelona carried out an aquatic action against the hypocri- sies and corruption involved in the concept and implementation of the Forum of Cultures. This documentary tells of their mission to reach the Forum in “pateras” (the small boats used by illegal immigrants to cross the Gibraltar Strait). 6.20 pm from necessity, and how direct action can lead 7.35 pm Passatge Cussidó...un adéu, 30', Jord i to a brutal confrontation with law enforcement Turbulences, Carole Poliquin, 60', Canada, Secall, Manel Muntaner, Yolanda Bermúdez, forces. It also offers proposals for other 1997, dvd 181. Txema Alonso, Spain, 2004, dvd 134. ways to think about prop e rt y , outside of the What happens when a butterfly flutters its wings? The upgrading of the final stretch of Diagonal capitalist society. Does the air around it rumble and seethe, creating a avenue in Barcelona’s Poble Nou area, for the hurricane on the other side of the globe? And when launch of the “Forum” zone, will lead to the 7.10 pm blue chip stocks suddenly plummet one day, how physical disappearance of entire blocks of La Barcelona que no se ve, la que se many workers lose their jobs or their pensions? The housing and a way of life. An interview with esconde (Captura Raval), 17', Blanca Isabel global market is not a neutral territor y, but an a group of residents affected by a PERI (special C a rdoso, Enrico Missana, Fatima Kamal, unprecedented state of interconnections and inter- renovation plan) that affects a block of ground Marta Cortiona, Spain, 2004, dvd 138. dependence. floor houses in Poble Nou. They talk about the “I don’t think politicians have read any history at all, real estate agency’s bad management and the lack modern or ancient. 8.35 pm of interest shown by the City Council in their Situations repeat themselves, and no matter how El Forat, 75', José Maria V. Peña, Spain, excitement over the opening of the Universal many guns they have, it will all be repeated again, 2004, dvd 182. Forum of Cultures. because it will be necessasry. Between 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the Watch out world leaders, murderers like Mr Bush... property development company that is restructuring 6.50 pm this is a Barcelona you can’t see one that hides”. various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated La Tierra es Nuestra, 20', Colectivo Buenos various housing blocks in Barcelona’s La Ribera Aires / Indymedia Video (Juan Lewin, Rodrigo 7.25 pm neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished Paz, Andres López, Pablo Boido, Manuel Cocktail Hour, 10', Infernal Noise Brigade, them. Local residents named the new empty space Palacios), Argentina, 2004, dvd 142. USA, 2003, dvd 171. that remained where their houses used to be the A video report on the occupation of The second, ¡Tchkung! Vs. The State, is a one hour “Forat de la Vergonya” (the Hole of Shame), as a lands by the Movimiento de Trabajadores tribute to the relationship between a band and their way of denouncing a situation that they considered Desocupados (Unemployed Workers Movement) local police and fire departments in the mid-90's. degrading for a number of reasons: the public on the 26th of June in La Matanza, on the Recommended more for the serious ¡Tchkung! fan authorities’ abandonment of an area that was alre- outskirts of Buenos Aires. than for the casual viewer, it features home movie ady problematic, the interminable construction The story helps us to understand the methods style depictions of performances, backstage prepa- work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new of self-organisation used by unemployed workers ration, police intervention, and street chaos. apartments, etc. SALA B time of instability, of transition between two states, feeling abandonment and capitalist hope. A state 7 pm that has passed and a state which is just starting, Credits included: a video in Red and Green, intangible, inevitable. The film follows this transition, 40', Jalal Toufic, Lebannon, 1995, dvd 119. which generates chaos, adaptation and suffering, Registers the withdrawal of tradition past a surpas- revealing the impossibility of being : at a time when sing disaster (the fifteen-year Lebanese war); pro- human beings can no longer be considered as a duces completed crossword puzzles with subsisting mass, but a sum of individuals. En exploding popu- blank spaces in a country of shattered shop signs; lation mapped over the geographical structure of exhibits the rise in 1992-Beirut of a sublime archi- the city. tecture of bricks in a period where it appears Arabs are being driven to the Stone Age (Palestinians throwing stones at the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories, etc.); and uses fiction to document the eruption of psychotic effects in and outside mental hospitals.

7.40 pm Mine de Rien, 84', Christian Barani, G. Reynard, France / Kazakhastan, 2004, dvd 183. Karaganda, Kazakhstan’s second-largest city, loca- ted to the south of the steppes, was built in 1930 by prisoners transported to an immense Karlag over a coalfield..Karaganda, Kazakhstan’s second-lar- gest city, located to the south of the steppes, was built in 1930 by displaced prisoners over a coalfield in the immense Karlag. Today, the basis of the city’s economy is disappearing, leading to considerable impoverishment. « Mine de Rien » documents a OTHER WORKS INCORPORATED TO THE ARCHIVES 2005. From 26th January 2005. 11 $, Eduardo Díaz, Spain, 2004, October uprising that began with this was NOT a simple matter of wardness and poverty; barbaric and dvd 148. opposition to a plan for exporting gas Afghans killing Afghans. intolerant the Khilafah state we are Fiction meets reality, and in the face of to the US, and ended with the resig- This documentary tells of how told when it is re-established will be danger a fiction hero bursts into nation of president Sánchez de American special forces took control the embodiment of all these characte - action, ignoring his father’s warnings Losada and several of his ministers. It of the operation, re-directed the con- ristics, incapable in the modern era of against meddling in the lives of includes various interviews, with vic- tainers carrying the living and dead providing any intellectual leadership humans. tims of the army’s brutal repression into the desert and stood by as survi- for mankind.Yet it is the 20th Century, ...with all respect due to the vic- (that left more than 80 people dead vors were shot and buried. a period which saw the absence of tims, we are clearly talking about and hundreds wounded), soldiers, And it details how the Pentagon lied the Khilafah, and which has been something else here. political analysts, journalists, the lea - to the world in order to cover up its dominated by secular ideologies and ders of local organisations and various role in the greatest atrocity of the enti- not Islam, that has entered the history 4 días de Mayo seis meses des- collective that played a part in the re Afghan War. This is the documen- books as the darkest, bloodiest and pués, 90’, El Tronco de Senegal, rebellion. tary they did not want you to see. most intolerant ever witnessed. Spain, 2003, dvd 125. The documentary was produced over This documentary explores the effects The documentary 4 days in May, Six Afghan Massacre (The Convoy ten months in extremely dangerous of the false and incorrect ideologies of Months Later, deals with the Prestige of Death), 50', Jamie Doran, UK, circumstances: eyewitnesses were capitalism and communism and the affair (the Prestige was a petrol tanker 2002, dvd 184. threatened, the film crew went into shallow and inhumane bond of natio - that sank off the Galician coast in 2002, Tells of the horrific forced journey hiding and our researcher was sava- nalism. The misery, pain and suffering releasing 50,000 tonnes of low-quality undertaken by thousands of prisoners gely beaten to within an inch of his life. they were responsible for. So that it heavy fuel into the sea and subse- who surrendered to America’s Afghan can be understood these ideas and quently the coast) and its ecolological, allies after the siege of Konduz. Age of disorde r , 42’ Hibz ut-Tah r i r , not Islam have posed the greatest political and social consequences. Bundled into containers, the lucky Khilafah, UK, 2004, dvd 185. threats to mankind and if left uncha- ones were shot within minutes. The The effects of communism, nationa- llenged will continue to plunge the “20 días de Noviembre. rest suffered an appalling road trip las- lism and capitalism in the 20th world into further turmoil and chaos. Después de una revuelta”, 90’, ting up to four days, clawing at the Century and the remedy. El Tronco de Senegal, Bolívia / skin of their fellow prisoners as they The world is led to believe by the so- Ah!: The Hopeful Pageantry Of Spain, 2004, dvd 126. licked perspiration and even drank called civilised Western nations to fear Bread & Puppet, 84', Tamar This documentary was filmed on a trip blood from open wounds. Up to 3,000 the return of Islam as a way of life. Schumann, Dee Dee Halleck, to Bolivia following the popular now lie buried in a mass grave, but Offering nothing but darkness, back- USA, 2002, dvd 186. The Bread and Puppet Theater has Part 3: George Melies: n’s leading actors. Arna Mer establis- been a source of hope and vision for Palace of the Arabian hed an alternative educational system people all over the world. Their perfor- Nights, 58’ . in teh West Bank to replace the formal mances have been in theaters, on Part 4: Outposts of the one that was practically paralysed by college campuses, in churches and Foreign Legion, 51’ the Israeli occupation. Arna’s Children parks, and above all in the streets. offers a prime connection between Bread and Puppet has taught genera- Arna’s children, 85’, past and present, for Juliano Mer tions of activists to construct large Juliano Mer Khamis, Khamis’ return to Jenin made him see puppets, to paint iconographic ban- Danniel Danniel, Israel / how everything had changed... ners and to print mobilizing Netherland, 2004, posters.Part documentary, part theater dvd 189. Âshûrâ: This Blood Spilled in history, part how-to and why not, and Yussuf carried out a suicide My veins, 100’, Jalal Toufic, part all over the place! bombing in Hadera in 2001, Lebanon, 2002, dvd 120. Ashraf was killed by the Al-Husayn, the grandson of the pr o- Aller Ne Suffit Pas, 55', Joseph Israeli army in the battle in phet Muhammad and the son of the Marando, France / Marruecos the Jenin refugee camp and first Shi‘ite imam, ‘Alî, was slaughtered 2002, dvd 187. Arab Stereotypes, 200', USA, Ala lead the Al Aqsa Brigades in Jenin alongside many members of his family The director travels with a group of 1998 dvd 190, dvd 191, dvd 192, until he was killed in November 2002. in the desert in 680. This memory is young Moroccan women who are dvd 193. Juliano Mer Khamis knew them since torture to me. But, basically, one can going to visit their families. A story This four-volume set features a collec- they were small children and docu- say this memory is torture to me of about migration, reunion, and loss. tion of documentary films, cartoons mented them from 1989-1996 in the every memory, since each reminiscen- and early silent-era films that provide theatre group he directed. In April ce envelops at some level the memory America Wake up! (or Waco), examples of some of the extreme ste- 2002 he returns to Jenin with his of the origin of memory, the torture Alex Jones, USA, 2002, dvd 188. reotypes of the Arab world that were camera in order to discover what hap- that had to be inflicted on humans in This video documents how the U.S. common in western media and enter - pened to the children he knew and order to make them remember Government grossly overstepped tainment during the first half of the loved. Juliano Mer Khamis is the son (Nietzsche). The memory that the Constitutional Boundaries, as well as twentieth century. of the Jewish Arna Mer and a yearly commemoration of ‘Âshûrâ’ is the cover up that followed with the Pa r t 1:Tom & Jerry .gypped in Egypt, 44’. Palestinian who got married in the trying to maintain is not only or mainly Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Pa r t 2: Hal Roach: Grief In Baghdad, 47’. 50’s. Juliano is today one of the regio- that of the past, but the memory of the future, namely the promise of the and digressions call Boujad, an nest in the heat, 45', Parousia of the twelfth imam, the up a beautiful and Hakim Belabbes, USA / long-awaited Mahdî—notwithstanding melancholy world. Marruecos, 1992, dvd 129. the passage of a millennium since his Boujad is a personal and anguishing occultation—as well as the correspon- Biographie de la look at issues of separaton, indepen- ding promise of Duodeciman Shi‘ites to pierre, 7', dence and return. As director Hakim wait for him. ‘Âshûrâ’: a condition of Abdelghani Bibt, Belabbes chronicles his journey from possibility of an unconditional prom i s e . Mo r occo, dvd 194. his home in Chicago to visit his family The biography of in his hometown of Boujad in Bandiera Rossa, 3', Bouchra stone is an angry Morocco, his exploration of family Khalili, Morocco / France, 2004, roar, a roar of indig- relationships is self-conscious and at dvd 194. nation and opposi- times painfully honest. We witness his The Moroccan flag is red. Red is one tion to the crimes most private moments with his family. of the colours of Islam, but it is also and cruelty that Belabbes' film intimately explores the the colour of the revolution. Two ima- occur all over the domestic spaces and religious rituals ges. One is heroic : the flag. The framed shots of urban scenes, indus - world, a cry against the harshness of of intra-family relationships, especially other is trivial: young men strolling by. trial installations, deserts, and other stone that refuses all dialogue. when compounded by one member's The two are joined through a song: evocative landscapes with a series of break with traditional values. Bandiera Rossa. fragmentary ruminations drawn from Black and Gold, 72', Bignoisefilms, film luminaries such as Fassbinder, USA, 1999, dvd 196. Camal, 13’, Miguel Alvear, Buildings And Grounds: The Fellini, Bergman and Tarkovsky. "My Brothers and Sisters. . . It's time Ecuador, 2000, dvd 197. Angst Archive, 45’, Ken Presented as a unified diaristic to go downtown." The Latin King A poetic and penetrating look at the Kobland, USA, 2003, dvd 195. accompaniment to the image, the text and Queen Nation, once the most old slaughterhouse in Quito, and the Kobland's quiet, meditative video is a comes to us both as English-language dangerous gang in New York City, work routine. “When you go to Quito’s philosophical investigation, a travelo- 'subtitles' and, simultaneously, as face resistance from the press, the slaughterhouse you can see the emo- gue of sorts, and, ultimately, a probing voice-off appropriated from the origi- city government and the police in their tional detachment with which living essay-film in the tradition of Aleksandr nal films. Floating over an image track struggle to escape crime and become animals are turned into meat for mass Sokorov or late Godard. Buildings and virtually evacuated of all human form a Black Panther-style street political consumption. At the end of the day its Grounds pairs lingering, beautifully or movement, Kobland's questions movement. a job like any other, a routine. The smell of the place is tepid and pene- When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to come to terms with the reality of being This film is a documentary that portr a y s trating, the noise is loud, the colour her hometown of Nablus after a four- refugees in a camp that has survived the neighborhoods of America through red dominates. And in this place, teen year absence, she discovered a massacre, siege and starvation. the point of view of the Israeli ice crea m which to the naive observer is terrif- new generation of Palestinian fighters: truck vendor. The film follows several ying and nauseating, hundreds of peo - the children of the Intifada. Choco Banana in North such vendors in the city of Charlotte, ple come, including entire families, to Carolina, 52’, Nisan Katz, USA / North Carolina . The film follows the earn a living. Couldn’t so much effort, Children of Shatila, 50’, Mai Israel, 2003, dvd 200. characters in their daily routine in so much death, have an ulterior motive? Masri, Lebannon,1990, dvd 199. See America from the point of view of cross cutting (in a parallel narrative). Many people first became aware of the Israeli ice cream truck vendor. Th r oughout the film we learn about the Captura Raval (Video the Shatila refugee different neighborhoods of Charlotte, Workshop), Teb, CCCB, Ovni, camp in Lebanon and America - some segregated, Spain, 2004, dvd 138, dvd 139. after the shocking some mixed. We learn about the vast Barcelona’s Raval area as a point of and horrific Sabra- differences in behavior, mentality, cul- intersection between different cultures, Shatila massacre ture and way of life – but when the ice told through the voices of people who that took place there cream truck comes to the neighborho- agreed to participate in the project. In in 1982. Located in od, everyone acts the same and wants this video, multiculturalism serves as a Beirut's "belt of the same thing: ice cream metaphor of branching paths, and a misery," the camp is chance to learn from diversity. home to 15,000 Clapper, 58’, Ammar Al-Beik, Palestinians and Syria, 2003, dvd 201. Casa Plage, Bouchra Khalili, 2’, Lebanese who share Syrian director Anmar al-Beik uses a Mo r occo / France, 2004, dvd 194. a common experien- series of imaginative artifices to The beach as social and political terri t o ry : ce of displacement, approach a small monastic community did the morroccan anthem glorify the unemployment and that seeks to experience Islamic- young mens wanderin in the beach, poverty. Fifty years Christian dialogue. and the drowned boys of Mediterra n e a ? after the exile of their grandparents from Crossing Kalandia, 52', Sobhi Children of Fire, 50’, Mai Masri, Palestine, the children Al-Zobaidi, Palestine, 2002, dvd Palestine, 1990, dvd 198. of Shatila attempt to 202, dvd 203. A video journal reflecting the life of a This video was made using images erotic, these catastrophic but stran- recent foreign policy thinking - that Palestinian family and a Palestinian recorded from TV between 2001 and gely beautiful images. conflicts between different and clas- town during one year of the intifada. 2004. Many were collected during a hing "civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Kalandia is the name of a refugee workshop that invited participants to Don't Call me Crazy on the 4th Confucian) characterize the contem- camp between Ramallah and record their “zapping” with access to of July, 36', Richard Pell, USA, porary world. Said argues that collap- Jerusalem, but more recently it has every channel in the world. One of the 2003, dvd 205. sing complex, diverse and contradic- become the location of one of the prophet Mohammed’s Hadiths provi- Why does Bob Lansberry think some- tory groups of people into vast, sim- most heavily-traveled Israeli check- des the narrative thread: “The first one is stealing his mail? Why does the plistic abstractions has disastrous points in the Palestinian territories. look at a woman is for you, the CIA think the Russians cornered the consequences. Presenting instead a Shot between May 2001 and August second is for the devil and the third is world market in LSD? Why does Ted vision of the "coexistence" of differen- 2002, Crossing Kalandia offers a uni- a crime.” Kaczynski hate his college professor? ce, Said concludes with the funda - que perspective on recent events in Our looks are displaced towards tele - Why is Dr. Jose Delgado not afraid of mental challenge that faces humanity Palestine. vised images and show us how the an angry bull? at the turn of the millennium. repetition and impoverishment of ima- Dangerous Concepts: ges in our culture place us in the role Edward Said. The Myth of the Fes, Inner City, 4h 30’, Toni Terrorism, 22’, Hibz ut-Tahrir / of voyeur. The television creates an Clash of Civilization, 50', USA, Serra, Morocco / Spain, 2002 dvd khilafah, UK, 2004, dvd 204. ambiguous situation and insidiously 1998, dvd 206. 135,dvd 136, dvd137. This documentary, based upon the make us enjoy, in a way that is almost One of the century's leading cultural An initiatic journey. Videos from an book Dangerous analysts examines exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Concepts by Hizb ut- the dangerous myths Comtemporània de Barcelona Tahrir, clarifies the opi- guiding American from March 26 to May 30, 2002 nions and their danger foreign policy in the (a project by Albert Garcia-Espuche for the Muslim post-cold war era. In and Toni Serra). Ummah. (community) this important lecture Into the innermost parts of the city of delivered at the Fes.Using audiovisual recordings that Dieu me Pardo n n e , University of illustrate some of the different anthro- 8’15, Mounir Fatmi, Massachusetts, Said pologic, sociologic, urbanistic and reli- France, 2005, takes aim at one of gious aspects that make up the fabric dvd 194. the central tenets of of the city. A journey that requires both objectivity (in the working festations of the them the "elite" of the garden's young method) and subjectivity (for the expe - idea of the Border prostitutes. rience of the journey and immersion in (territorial, social Nino and Dudu lead the narrative of another culture). political, psychologi- the film. They met in 2002 in a street cal). Issues that fight. The two lead characters share a Festin, 8’, Mounir Fatmi, France, could be summed remarkable story of friendship that 2002, dvd 194. up in the profound exposes not only a harsh reality of How to escape from the trap? How to feeling of loneliness teen-aged prostitution but also illumi- fight the monster of need that makes that saturates these nates the complexity of being a you lose your human shape, that itch works”. Juan Palestinian, an Arab-Israeli and an that you can’t stop thinking about and Bautista Peiro. immigrant in Israel. They are always makes that you dependent, a prisoner on the run... of consumption, a slave to an artificial Garden, 90', Adi paradise? All these questions are Barash, Ruthie Hágase tu voluntad, 22’, Virginia taken from the books of William Shatz, Israel, García del Pino, Mexico, 2004, Burroughs, a drug addict until he 2003, dvd 207. dvd 197. finally escaped the horrors of addic- Nino and Dudu are Conversations between house maids tion at the age of 50. In his introduc- systems, some totalitarian, others young male prostitu- in Mexico City. tion to “The Naked Lunch”, Gérard- more subtle, more sophisticated, that tes working in the "electricity garden" Georges Lemaire, referring to take possession of the human being in downtown Tel-Aviv. The film follows Hamdulilllah Dar al Ajira, 15’, Burroughs, wrote: “..he was wildly through perverse and intimate chan- their lives for a year, revealing the intri- Abu Ali, Marruecos / España, interested in control techniques in the nels: such as desire, for example. cacies of their daily lives, the way their 2004, dvd 133. widest sense, from the Maya Code, reality is transformed and their friends- A strange Sheikh in a barely-glimpsed which he discovered in Mexico, to the Frames / Fragments, 70’, Glória hip evolves. Both youths experienced place: “Destiny is as wide as a hand manipulations of the mass media, the Martí, Spain, 2003, dvd 144. abuse at the hands of family mem- and four fingers, the width of a grave. CIA and different American sects”. “...These videos deal with some of the bers, both found themselves on the The man who owns 40 buses, what William Burroughs is a tireless defen- most visible issues in contemporary streets, prostituting for a living. Nino does he really have? The man who sor of the free will of human beings societies. Racial mix, violence, margi- and Dudu are both survivors, and their owns 4 houses, poor fellow! What subject to all kinds of coercive nalisation, culture clashes...as mani- intelligence, wit and a strong will make does he have? A grave!...” Hamdulilllah Dhia Dikr, 15’, Abu Ungerman, Iraq, 2000, dvd 210. or against any of the other Gulf sta- ted sights and sounds works most Ali, Marruecos / España, 2004, On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam tes? Why wasn't Washington's rheto- earnestly to expose the racial biases dvd 133. Hussein launched his troops against ric against Saddam ever matched by concealed in familiar images. Relying The sacrifice. The lessons of death, its Kuwait, triggering the first major inter - any real support to the Iraqi opposi - on valuable snippets from feature films open spaces. national crisis of the post-Soviet tion groups? Since they failed to wea - such as Exodus, Lawrence of Arabia, Union era. But was this invasion a sur- ken Saddam Hussein's power, what Black Sunday, Little Drummer Girls, Hezbollah, 3h. Lebannon, 2003, prise in the first place? Were all diplo- were the actual results of the U.S. and network news shows, the filmma - dvd 209. matic means utilized to try to resolve sanctions against Iraq? What is true kers have constructed an oddly wr y The emergence of Hezbollah as a the issue peacefully? Was there any behind the mysterious "Gulf War narrative, mimicking the history of Mid party dates back to 1982 when a threat from Iraq against Saudi Arabia Syndrome" that goes on affecting East politics. group of islamic believers considered hundreds of thou- the eminence of establishing a certain sands of Gulf War Iraq - In The Name of Freedom, formula to face the weakness prevai - veterans and local 34', An-Nahda Media ling in the struggle against Israel and Iraqi populations? Productions, UK, 2004, dvd 211. to achieve the goals of Islam. Since The coalition forces before the launch the very beginning, Hezbollah was Introduction to of their war on Iraq promised the directly linked to the Islamic struggle the end of an removal of a Saddam style dictators - in Iran that had a direct impact on the Argument: hip with the implementation of free- party's lifepath. The party was consti - Speaking for dom and democracy. It was in the tutud form organizations and party Oneself… / name of Freedom that Britain and affluents, both islamic and national, Speaking for America launched a brutal war on the and from independent currents Others, 41', people of Iraq who are predominantly among youth. Jayce Salloum, Muslim. Far from accepting the occu - The aprty is religiously tied to the Elia Suleiman, pation of the coalition forces, the peo- jurisprudent lider al Imam Khomeini USA / ple of Iraq have refused to be forced first then to al-Imam al-Khamenei. Palestine,1990, to accept democracy and freedom. dvd 131. In replacement of Saddam, America Hidden Wars Of desert storm, This highly kinetic has installed a new dictator and conti- 60’ Audrey Brohy, Gerard tableaux of uproo- nues its onslaught on cities and villa- ges in Iraq that wish to remain inde- American servile attitude of the find a way through the labyrinth ments together in ways the viewer pendent. This powerful and moving Columbian oligarchy? of the world. may not expect. documentary will question the justifi- cation of the whole war, expose the La Resistencia del Maiz, Minga Les Ciseaux, 12’, Mounir Fatmi, MAYDAY2004, P2P Fightsharing butchery inflicted upon the Iraqi peo - Social, Ecuador, 2003, dvd 214. France, 2003, dvd 194. 02, Italia, 2004, dvd 174. ple and set a vision (for action) for the What is the extent of the FTAA plan? « A man and a woman make love, Rail workers, chain workers, preca- Muslim communities in Britain and Who does it affect and who gains the they share their pleasure like scissors rious information employees, French the West. most benefits? The application of the which cross ». The pair, like a pair of performing arts temp workers, FTAA regional plan, or, if it fails, the scissors that is sharp, dangerous and YoMango, Macdonald’s strikers... La Ciudad de la Espera, 60', Free Trade Agreements between indi- sublime. « Les ciseaux » (the scis- Conflicts and strikes in the workplace, Prod. Multicanal y Elegant Mob vidual countries, has tragic conse- sors) is a video made using images actions, picketers, protests and Film, Spain, 2002, dvd 212. quences for many poor urban and from the Nabil Ayouch’s film « Une demands for the defence and achieve - This documentary explores immigra- rural (mostly indigenous) people, that minute de soleil en moins », censored ment of new social rights. tion from two points of view: from the is, for the majority of the population in in Morocco. » (Mounir Fatmi). place of origin, and through the eyes these South American countries. Metamorfosi, Maxine Harris, of those that stay. Local Angel, Theological Sheldon Rochlin, USA, dvd 216. Laberinto de Mentiras, 27’, Iban Political Fragments, After Join Terence McKenna, Rupert Las Consecuencias del Plan del Campo, Ixiar Rozas, Spain, Walter Benjamin and Gershom Sheldrake, and Ralph Abraham as Colombia para Venezuela, 68’, 2004, dvd 177. Shalom, 70’ Udi Aloni, USA / they trialogue on the relationship Alessandro Bombassei, A documentary that collects the Israel 2003, dvd 215. between chaos, creativity and the Colombia, 2004, dvd 213. reflections of John Berger, Bernardo It's a documentary about the root cau - imagination. The armed conflict in Columbia has Atxaga, Gianni Celati, Joaquín Jorda ses and present contradictions of the "The flutter of the the moth's wing can grown under president Uribe. Groups and Abdel Aziz on how to break Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a deeply trigger the hurricane. This is not a of ordinary people cross the border to through the labyrinth of lies that we personal odyssey of discovery, and a poetic statement. This is the fact of Venezuela to escape from the parami- find ourselves trapped in. These and surreal work of art combining poetry, the matter within this kind of descrip- litary violence. What are the long-ter m other artists who spent time between music, and images both beautiful and tion of nature. In other words, very consequences of the Columbian con- the ports of Livorno, Bilbao, Naples horrific. While its subtitle is small changes create cascades into flict for Venezuela and the region? and Barcelona are weaving the "Theological Political Fragments," where whole states shift and are per- What lies behind the traditional pro- thread of Ariadna that will help us the film ends by tying its many ele- turbed." - Terence McKenna Napoli Centrale, 9’, Bouchra Panorama natory scene of a woman's reverse Khalili, Italy / Morocco / France, Ephemera, 90', chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. 2002, dvd 129. Rick Prelinger, This physical audiovisual experience The night crossing of a Mediterranean USA, 2004, produces skewed reflections upon city by car. Its passenger stay there dvd 218. Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a almost invisible, absorbed by the A collage of sequen- wounded act of disappearance. urban view. A voice confirms a lonely ces drawn from a night wandering in a city by the sea, wide variety of ephe- Perro Corazón, 25’, Abu Ali, an urban journey made to let the time meral (industrial, Morocco, 1998-2004, dvd 172. pass away. Who crosses this city isn't advertising, educa- 1998, Tangier. Conversations in the only passing through it. He's a local, for tional and amateur) bar La Poste with Tangerian writer a night, before an exile without return. films, touring the Mohammed Chukri and New York poet conflicted landsca- Ira Cohen, stories of death, separation Okupa, 8 ‘, it's all lies, Spain / pes of twentieth- and loss under the mantle of friendship. Israel, 2003, dvd 153. century America. The Okupa is the Spanish word for squat. films' often-skewed Pirates, 56’ David Combe, Jean- This is a short video of two very large visions construct an Marc Barbieux, ARTE France / demonstrations that took place in American history Program 33, France, 2004, Barcelona against evictions and pro- tic approach and with familiarity rarely filled with horror and hope, unreeling dvd 208. perty spectulation. seen, young men and women talk in familiar and unexpected ways. Hakim Bey, Anarchy in USA, Black about the ‘hijab’ and its social implica- Panorama Ephemera focuses on fami- Block, Autonoms, MC5, Sea Shepherd On Boys, Girls, and the Veil, 72’ tions. Most of the youths regard the liar and mythical activities and images Yousry Nasrallah Egytp, 1995, head scarf not primarily as a religious in America (1626-1978)... Playboy, 5’ Jackie Salloum, USA, dvd 217. obligation, but as a social construction 2003, dvd 129. With his leading protagonist and friend that symbolizes a girl’s respectability Papillon de Amour, 4', Nicolas Confessions of an ex-agent of (Bassam Samra), Nasrallah takes us or sexual innocence. When talking Provost, Belgium, 2003, dvd 219. Playboy magazine. on an exquisite tour of a subject nor- amongst themselves, however, the By subjecting fragments from the mally overdramatized by the West. young men acknowledge the sexual Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a Reason is a name given to Taking the debate beyond the simplis - double standard. mirror effect, Provost creates a halluci- collective thought 2002-2003, 3’ / ballad of the flag 2002-2003, 4’ box. The police call it illegal trespas - Seffar [Fes Ciudad Interior], law was in force till the early nineties, Caraballo-Farman USA / sing. The Reverend claims that social Abu Ali, 11’, Morocco / Spain, already in democracy and with the Argentina 2003, dvd 149. change always begins with civil diso - 2004, dvd 133. Spanish transition concluded. Each of these was recorded at a parti- bedience and includes as his heroes From the series “Fez Ciudad Interior”. cular time in a particular place but it the civil rights, peace and labor move- Silences and wind in the olive trees, She was Cuba, 17’, Ho Tam, could have been in any number of pla- ments. contemplation, labyrinths and dreams. Cuba / Canada, 2003, dvd 219. ces, at other times in history. It could Abdelfettah Seffar, a craftsman who Using the 1964 Russian-Cuban classic have been the fans of the opposing Saint of globalisation: señor lived in London for years and decided film I Am Cuba as its starting point, team, supporters of a different cause, Cambio 2003, 2’ / Gaseosa fria to return, talks about Fez, a veiled city, She Was Cuba explores the nature of members of a different tribe. Crowds 2003, 3’ Caraballo-Farman, USA / and reflects of the West and its conflicts. memory, the time passed and its form when specifics dissolve. The Argentina, 2003, dvd 149. remains. specifics of time and place as well as Street vendors work in the cracks Sentenciados sin juicio, 50’, The film is made up of two stories. specific emotions, needs, thoughts, of globalization. They sell the fetishes Eliseo Blay Climent, España The first traces the life and death of a desires, hopes, beliefs - specific indi- of commercial globalisation - Hulk 2003, dvd 221, dvd 222. Cuban woman, Ada Perez Esquivel, viduals. We wanted to evoke both the statues, 7-Up, national and During the seventies, more than who fled to seek political asylum in dangers and the power and euphoria international currencies - but not on 50.000 people were imprisoned in Canada. It is the tale of a woman of of these states of collective existence. the official market, from which Spain with no accusation, without a colour in exile, and her search for free- they’ve been left out. It’s a persistent, barrister assistance, with no previous dom, love and acceptance. The heroi - Reverend Billy & The Church of daily effort, Sisyphean and heroic at trial, and having committed no offence ne symbolizes Cuba the country as Stop Shopping, 60', Dietmar the same time, for despite the artful - at all. Those judicial proceedings were well as those who have left their native Post, USA / Germany / Spain, ness of the work, the jingles, the hec- supported by a government law. land for a new home elsewhere. 2002, dvd 220. kling,the sweat, nothing much hap- People under arrest were denomina- Something that has to be done in the pens (compared to the profits made ted as “social dangerous”, a menace Suicide, 70 ‘ Shelly Silver, USA, risky environment of the street." The by the crusaders of globalization), for the rest of the Spanish society. The 2003, dvd 223. fictions / performances inside and out- the world just streams by, and aim of the mentioned law was to era- suicide is a feature-length fiction of a side of Starbucks coffee shops and at the end of the day you pack up dicate, in other words, to “clean the woman's voyage through the malls, Disney stores often end with the your things and leave and in your streets”, of beggars, unemployed, airports and train stations of Asia, Reverend being arrested. He calls it absence the world keeps on going gays, mental handicapped, gypsies … Europe and Central America, stepping into somebody's imagined without you. and up to 21 social categories. This chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason (by people who haven't seen the work) a 'something' which isn't quite the "Other America" and the destruc - to continue living. is, 'What is it about?' -a question I am what was promised, but somehow tion of the 10 amendments. The never able to answer. The series has obtusely, perhaps humorously, Pentagon is born from the need to Syria Collection 2002, Jeanette no central theme and is, I hope, quite related. The whole series is five bring together counter-information Schou, Syria / Denmark, 2004, heterogeneous. As a whole, though, I hours long and meant to be and journalistic rigor, continuing the dvd 225. can say it is monologue-based, held approached like a collection of prose operation that began with the radio The Islamic Sufism is an ancient reli - together by the sound of my voice. poems or very short stories: open it spots "Iraq 2 special edition", "death gious movement. On some issues it is Perhaps the prototypical video up anywhere and begin reading, skip for sale" and "the black mir ror in opposition to the common or funda- would have two parts. First, a what doesn't catch your attention, re- of democracy". mental Islam. Therefore sufism has spoken monologue over a loop of read whatever does. So watching it been suppressed by both the religious appropriated footage, which promises with a remote control is a good idea." The Spirit of America and political powers. Through ecstatic to reveal something, followed by (Steve Reinke). Collection, 56’, Film Clips, USA dancing by misic and meditation the 2002, dvd 232. sufi seeks oneness with God. Most The Pentagon, Response to September 11th, Film recognised are the whirling dervishes TV Commercials, Clips comissioned Academy Award but the påractise of sufism can also 18', winning filmmaker Chuck Workman to take other forms.This video shows CaneCapovolto, creatre a 3-minute montage from the sufirituals as performed in Syria which Italy, 2004, history of mocies celebrating the spirti have relationship with the practise of dvd 231. of America. Presented as a gift from the fakirs. The tradition is passed on The post-war period the entertainment community to from generation to generation.The and the New World America. It played more than 10.000 video shows beautiful but also ver y Order told through screens throughout the USA. profound and violent images. documentaries, war films, propaganda Episode 1 “The Pilot”. 28', The Hundred Videos, 4h, 37’, and photographs. American School Counselor Steve Reinke, Canada 1990- Waco, Oklahoma Association, USA. 2002. 1997, dvd 226, dvd 227, dvd 228, City, September 11, Designed to encourage students to dvd 229, dvd 230. the war on terrorism explore issues such as: Making a "The question I'm asked most often and Special Laws, Difference, Teamwork, Race Relations, Mutual Understanding, Generosity, The voice of the tour Independent Media in a time of war, 29' Tolerance, and Human Rights. guide takes the vie- Voices Against War: F15 NYC, 22' wer through wobbly Women's fast for peace, 29' Episode 2 “The Spirit of America”. 28', Super 8 pictures American School Counselor which Irshaid’s Whispers, 15', Hakim Belabbes, Association, USA. 2002. Palestinian father Morocco / USA, 1999, dvd 129. Designed to encourage students to exp- took on a family trip Hakim Belabbes' Whispers follows a lo r e the common character traits underl- to Palestine / Israel man's obsessive search for his lost ying American Patriotism such as: in the 1970s. An iro- childhood through the dark alleyways Solidarity, Integrity, Freedom, Dissent, nic portrait offering and desolate cemeteries of the direc- and Responsibility with a study guide an alternative to the tor's Moroccan hometown, Boujad. written by The American School Coun- images in the mass selor Association.. 28' American School media. Zapatista, 56', Bignoisefilms, Counselor Association, USA. 2002. USA / Mexico, 1998, dvd 236. Visits, Nabila "The Reality seen through this camera This Ain't no Heartland, 100', Irshaid, Austria / is more Real." - Subcomandante Andreas Horvath, Austria, 2004, Palestine, 2004, Marcos dvd 233. dvd 234. A look at the Zapatista uprising, its America is at war with Iraq, but does A potrait of my palestinian father. The mixed identity. All his personal drama historical roots and its lessons for the anyone around here care? As long as footage is taken from mutual visits in is wrapped up in humor and irony. present and the future. it rains. During the war against Iraq, Germany and Austria before the war in that was and is supported by the Iraq started in 2003. War & Peace Trilogy, Indymedia, majority of Americans, Horvath trave- Beyond stereotypes generated by USA 2003, dvd 235. lled through the rural Midwest of the mass media I show a civilized indivi- In 2003 the reality of war set in, amd the United States. There, he polled opi - dual leading his life according to per- roar of the mainstream media seemed nions among the local population. sonal history, improvised state of life. to deafen ours ears and stifle our voi- Exporting parts of arab culture into his ces. Hudson Mohawk Independent Travel Agency, 8', Nabila Irshaid, and the family«s all-day life in Europe Media center respond by coming toge- Austria / Germa n y , 2001, dvd 234. he estabished an individual style of ther to make these three documentaries.

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