SEEING IS BELIEVING: Handicams Human Rights and the

58 minutes, Canada (2002)
language: english subtitles: english
Necessary Illusions

From Rodney King to Osama Bin Laden, Handicams aren't just for weddings and family vacations. SEEING IS BELIEVING is an unprecedented exploration into the political and social uses of handicams and new communications technologies. Human rights activists, war crimes investigators, right-wing videographers and ordinary citizens are arming themselves with the tools of the new visual revolution. What happens when amateur front-line advocates pick up camcorders to document what they see? What are the risks and responsibilities? And what are the wider impacts on television and audiences? On international law and society? On documentary practice? Co-directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick, SEEING IS BELIEVING illuminates the work and words of key international journalists and media activists. It also shines a verité spotlight on Joey Lozano, a courageous video-activist who documents rights abuses against indigenous people in dangerous corners of the Southern Philippines. But does Joey▓s camera prevent violence - or jeopardize lives? Drawn from original shooting around the world, and sampling hundreds of hours of exclusive archives, SEEING IS BELIEVING provides a dramatic window into the power of do-it-yourself film-making.

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12 minutes, USA (2002)

This short addresses the process of losing our selves in order to fit in. The process of destroying our inner impulses to be accepted . The process of adhering to social norms and how this paralizes our growth. The title (IMpossibility) is a play on words that symbolizes this concept.

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3 minutes, SPAIN (2002)
ZAP producciones

Documentary about a performance In Seville, juny 2002, against the International mandataries party.

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6 minutes, Germany (2002)
language: German
www.hybridvideotracks.org

The clip reflects on the role of corporations during military conflicts and highlights the strange development of an ongoing abstraction of journalism during wartime while at the same time Hollywood produces hyberrealistic warmovies.

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12 minutes, UK (2002)
language: music
Mirabelle Productions

video collage - this piece is intended as a visual backdrop at parties, and it runs as a loop. It is made from footage of the Undercurrents archive - direct action from the last 10 years. The theme is the four elements, and spirit, the fifth element runs through the whole video - the power of the people!

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0 minutes, australia (2002)
language: visual language

"THERE IS A GHOST IN THE MACHINE... AND IT'S ME." This tactical media film has been made to interface with the spectator through the video phone. An experiment in telecommunications appropriation, it provokes the question: 'is the public being seduced (disappearing) into the machine?

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1 minutes, australia (2002)
language: visual language

"I wash my machine real good." This tactical media film has been made to interface with the spectator through the video phone. An experiment in telecommunications appropriation, it provokes the question: 'is the public being seduced (disappearing) into the machine?

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1 minutes, Canada (2002)
www.achdiyan.com

Three extremely short vignettes that respond to media saturation of images of war and violence, asking about the idea of complicity and personal voice.

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75 minutes, USA (2002)
language: English subtitles: Transcription available at http://www.actupny.org/divatv/Synopsis_Detailed.pdf
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) (New York)

Film Festival Catalog Synopses: Over the span of its 15-year history, ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has helped to transform the world's consciousness about HIV and AIDS, and made activism a vital part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and AIDS political landscape. Comprehensively documented by media activists and video collectives, the bold strategies, media savvy, and decidedly queer wit of ACT UP remains a fresh source of inspiration to today's artists and activists through the invaluable trove of images sampled in this dynamic program of AIDS activist video.

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14 minutes, Austria (2002)
language: German subtitles: English

Peter and Aurelia Plesa came to Austria in 1990 to escape the dictatorship in Romania. They discuss the current political and social situation in Romania and their life in Austria, their work at the local factory, their sorrows and dreams. The interviews are mixed with home videos shot by Peter and Aurelia on their holidays in Romania.

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14 minutes, USA (2002)
language: English

a short documentary about Fabian, a 19 year old Mexican immigrant who lives in New York and works as a busboy in an Italian restaurant. Fabian is most worried about money and his career, how to pay for school, rent, internet and his passion, sneakers. What he likes the most about the US, he says grinning, are: the opportunities, Mc Donald's and the green bills... “Three things I like” questions cliche pictures of young Mexicans in the US following the promise of the American Dream.

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3 minutes, Cameroon / Belgium (2002)
Stefaan Dheedene

Petit document portrets Cyril, a young cameroonian who dreams of being an operasinger... The video observes Cyril, singing a reqiem in the forest of Mount Febe in Yaoundé - Cameroon.

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1 minutes, Belgium (2002)
language: english
C.H.E.A.P

'Marinadivenezia' investigates the social context of a campground resort, this time relying on a series of images of sailcloth-covered cars

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7 minutes, Spain (2002)
language: Spanish(english available, both versions on tape) subtitles: no
MEIAC, Extremaduran and Iberoamerican Museum of Contemporary Art.

A person, a young dead woman whispers in our ears. She participated in the collectivizations of the properties of landlords in Extremadura and Andalucia, being one of the between 2000 and 4000 persons executed in the bullring of Badajoz, from the 14th of August of 1936, day of the occupation of the city by Franco’s troops at the begining of the Spanish Civil War. Her voice talks from death, understanding it as a mental state of expectancy of what the living ones can do out of their societies. This woman would be sad, disstressed for the sterility of her fight, for the easyness with which the oblivion helps in the lose of rights, and with which the energy and life of wasted, those others previous in time that fought and assumed the risk in their lifes to make out of the world a better place. She struggles between the complete death that would carry along the definite disappearence of all the effects of her fight and of the one of others like her, or the still visible positive consequences of it, resisting the submission to a cold absurd world, which doesn´t give men and women any profound reason to care among themselves.

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3 minutes, Spain (2002)
ZAP producciones

Documentary about a performance In Seville, juny 2002, against the International mandataries party.

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