Informed Dissent: Noam Chomsky on education and military, the new economy, and the battles to control oil resources
7 minutes, United Kingdom (2003)
language: english
Undercurrents
An intimate interview with Noam Chomsky, one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books. In this part of the interview he discusses education and the military, the new economy and the battles to control oil resources. Recorded during a round table of anti-war campaigners.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Informed Dissent: Noam Chomsky on the connection between the Marshall plan and oil and how globalisation will result in an increase in Terrorism.
2 minutes, United Kingdom (2003)
language: english
Undercurrents
An intimate interview with Noam Chomsky, one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books. In this part of the interview he discusses the connection between the Marshall plan and oil and how globalisation will result in an increase in Terrorism. Recorded during a round table of anti-war campaigners.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Informed Dissent: New York
5 minutes, United Kingdom (2003)
language: english
Undercurrents
U.S students and youth take to the streets of New York city to voice their concerns about war.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Informed Dissent: Noam Chomsky compares the anti-Iraq war movement with the Vietnam and other anti-war campaigns
5 minutes, United Kingdom (2003)
language: english
Undercurrents
An intimate interview with Noam Chomsky, one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books. In this part of the interview he compares the anti-Iraq war movement with the Vietnam and other anti-war campaigns. Recorded during a round table of anti-war campaigners.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Informed Dissent: Seize the Day
8 minutes, United Kingdom (2003)
language: english
Undercurrents
A music video about the Ploughshare women who disarmed a warplane sold to Indonesia.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Collision
8 minutes, The Netherlands (2003)
language: English
Amsterdam, March 22 of this year. A social network is created for the ritual of protest. An anti-war march begins at the Dam Square and ends one hour later in front of the American consulate at the Museumplein. As we move together through the city streets there is a hidden media network, created to watch us. During the walk towards the Museumplein, a portable audio/video receiver is used to capture unencrypted video and audio signals transmitted by wireless surveillance cameras. Police cameras watching over the Museumplein are detected at the beginning of the march from the Dam Square. The following events occurred in the order depicted.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Remote Frisking
7 minutes, UK (2003)
language: english
subtitles: english
APHASIA
Border crossings. The movement of a body through technologies of biopolitical administration. Breath and flesh that must prove its innocence at every turn / the decoration of transitional architecture/ a stopped heart.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
RADICAL TEEN CHEER
10 minutes, usa (2003)
language: English
subtitles: English
Elienation Pictures
Eli Elliott's inspired portrait of Los Angeles high school students who boldly express their political views as cheerleaders. From cheers against third world country sweatshops to the hypocrisy of the United States government, Radical Teen Cheer shows a rare group of youths speaking out on issues in an interesting new form of political expression.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
CUZ I CALL HIM THE TERRORIST
4 minutes, usa (2003)
language: English
Elienation Pictures
Filmed during a Los Angeles anti-war protest, spoken word performer and political activist, CESAR CRUZ, is captured performing his intense and passionate piece "The Terrorist" in front of hundreds of demonstraters.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
ASSCROFT
6 minutes, usa (2003)
language: English
Elienation Pictures
Eli Elliott celebrates this appropriate nickname giving to the current United States Attorney General while pointing out the absurd actions of a man on the verge of re-writing the constitution, as the United States of America becomes more of a diminishing civil liberty police state.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
MOTHER NATURE
3 minutes, UK (2003)
language: English
Forma
Zeke and Paddy from Hull, discuss the unlikelyhood of a second war in the gulf….. Made as one of 13 streaming films for public art project Speechless [www.speechless.org.uk] commissioned by HTBA which explores the current phenomenon of the gentrification and branding of cities as a strategy not only of marketing, but also of success, regeneration and wealth. Working with some of the less gentrified people in Hull, Mike Stubbs examines the gaps between planners' 'visions' and perceptions of 'traditional' social economic systems which inform and shape individuals and communities. Cities chase success using similar values to be seen as viable; quality of life, economic growth, Premier League football clubs determine a league table of cities. Of course this is full of contradictions.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Day Out
6 minutes, UK (2003)
language: English
Stephen Jackson (Cinnabar Films)
A poem with images, and a semi-autobiographical portrait of a derelict relationship in which there is nothing left to say. The aim is to make music, words, animation and live action mesh together in a lyrical and convincing way.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
PROMISES
20 minutes, Spain - UK (2003)
language: English, Spanish, Italian
subtitles: English, Spanish
Consol Rodríguez
A video that rehearses a cinematographic counterpart to conversations with people the artist encountered during her stay in London in 2002-2003. The dialogue works as a link with themes such as geographical displacement, urban migration and diasporic living with references to localised areas of inner London. As the film unveils the fate of the ‘promised land’, both the travellers and the viewers’ expectations become suspended and unresolved in a monochromatic ambience of nocturnal uninterrupted snow. Journey and stroll are determined ways to move or re-move one self in between borders, be they transnational or transurban. With Promises, this intention is closer to the dérive, a rather irrational exploration of the built space, where the situation opens itself to indeterminacy. In the artist’s project, the soundscape of words resounds as an evolving mental map to a city whose contours are constantly evolving. The disembodied space, from which all traces of personal visual identity have been removed, is manifested only through the fragments of histories where any feeling of shared community is subtly but constantly disrupted by heavy gates of abstract noise. Promises are like night vision: always at the edge of a fall.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Perception Of War – An Approximation In Six Fragments
24 minutes, A/CH/D (2003)
language: english
Is war a topic which fits into an experimental cinematic frame? The filmmakers Eduard Freudmann and Ramon Grendene dared to step in a minefield, trying unusual approaches to military thinking on the search for the nature of violence. Six multidisciplinary short films developed, starting points for a fragmentaric approach to a consecutive process.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2
Gaza Book of Longing
2 minutes, USA (2003)
language: English
The landscape of a botanical conservatory drives the memory of dispossession as a woman yearns for the climate of her homeland. Her search and discovery of a solitary olive tree in the metropolis reveals a longing that cannot be bounded by artificial constructions. The tree and the woman struggle within the space of captivity to reconcile the reciprocal relationship between support and display as they find themselves lost in a land of others, far away from home.
>> download as mpeg4 file (right click)
>>watch as a mpeg4 stream
>>view full-screen mpeg2