TEORÍA DE LAS NACIONES (THEORY OF NATIONS)

2 minutes, SPAIN (2003)
ZAP producciones

A reflection and a critical commentary on the concept of democracy and its incarnation in our contemporary society as well as on the concept of nation. And a parody of that simulating spots advertisinf of electoral propaganda.

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40 minutes, Barcelona (Spain) (2003)
language: Catalan / Spanish
RotoR

Huge urban extension of desolated and confused territories between deconstruction and construction submerged to the rhythm of daily transformations... While the constructors look ahead in the future and neighbours reclaim the past of the workers district, here we are now, in a changeable and dynamic surroundings, without known marks and orientational signs. Municipal maps are not valid here any more. Flow of human circulations are generating and modifying according to the measure that urban volumes are transforming. Every movement happens to be an adventure because it won't be possible to see and experience it ever again.

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40 minutes, Barcelona (Spain) (2003)
language: Catalan / Spanish
RotoR

Huge urban extension of desolated and confused territories between deconstruction and construction submerged to the rhythm of daily transformations... While the constructors look ahead in the future and neighbours reclaim the past of the workers district, here we are now, in a changeable and dinamic surroundings, without known marks and orientational signs. Municipal maps are not valid here any more. Flow of human circulations are generating and modifying according to mesure that urban volumes are transforming. Every movement happens to be an adventure because it won't be possible to see and experience it never again.

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40 minutes, Barcelona (Spain) (2003)
language: Catalan / Spanish
RotoR

Huge urban extension of desolated and confused territories between deconstruction and construction submerged to the rhythm of daily transformations... While the constructors look ahead in the future and neighbours reclaim the past of the workers district, here we are now, in a changeable and dinamic surroundings, without known marks and orientational signs. Municipal maps are not valid here any more. Flow of human circulations are generating and modifying according to mesure that urban volumes are transforming. Every movement happens to be an adventure because it won't be possible to see and experience it never again.

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9 minutes, HUNGARY (2003)
language: HUNGARIAN subtitles: ENGLISH
HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF CRAFT AND DESIGN

„There’s nothing here. Only a few old people, and, let’s say, no more than 10 youngsters. No more… And we are dying off, you know. We buried an old man last week too. I am old as well.”

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45 minutes, Germany (2003)
language: German, english subtitles: german
alfred banze

A childrens game about the holy war. about the childrens crusade from 1212 from germany to jerusalem, and relations to todays political and religious phenomens between europe and oriente.

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3 minutes, germany (2003)
language: chinese subtitles: english

climbing up the Great Wall: a reflection on revolution as exile.

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6 minutes, UK/Somewhere in Eastern Europe (2003)
Pilos**t Pictures

Subverting the political guard of an Eastern European country, the maker forces them into his new regime where they must guard the daisies and watch over them while they grow.

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90 minutes, usa-spain-morocco (2003)
language: english subtitles: spanish
archivos del observatorio

The_Babylon_Archives_1999-2003. A contemporary media archaeology project that collects and compiles material from the dark side of our civilization. Promotionals from corporative, militar, pharma and digital industries. Many of these audiovisual documents were not produced to last, but rather to fulfill specific functions at a particular time: training, publicity, etc...this is why, when they are taken out of the context of their time or intended use, their meaning is revealed with surprising clarity even to those used to the constant publicity aimed at consumers. The result is a disturbing catalogue of intentions, aims and the means used to achieve them.

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19 minutes, Germany (2003)
language: English, some German

Look like you half understand, look like you are unsure, look like you are waiting for someone, look like you don't know where he/she ends and where you begin; Hello Berlin is an attempt to overcome feelings of displacement within a foreign city. Local police, street punks and bakery employees of Berlin are approached with a video camera and asked to look like, without acting or demonstrating, various emotional experiences having to do with feelings of displacement, but which are not necessarily contingent on being in this state.

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26 minutes, Nepal (2003)
language: Interviews in Nepali subtitles: English
SAncharika Samuha ( Women Communicators Group )

Strongly influenced by patriarchal norms and values, discrimination against women begins right from birth in Nepali society, meaning that torture and violence against women and girls is rampant. Women of all ages are found to be subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse across boundaries of class, caste and ethnic background. Many traditional and cultural beliefs are misinterpreted to endorse male supremacy and reinforce a social hierarchy where women are inferior to and dependant upon men. Such violence against women has a continued history of going unreported and unchallenged for centuries. Thus silence still shields perpetrators of violent acts against women from justice… It is this silence that the video attempts to break. It features glimpses of a few of the many forms of violence faced by women in Nepal ranging from cultural violence to domestic and family violence. It attempts to provide an examination of the problems through interviews with survivors of violence and the agony and pain they underwent. In an attempt to provide solutions to the problem it also features interviews with social activists, legal practitioners and the media.

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8 minutes, England (2003)
Mandrake production

The use of media is at the origin of our contemporary society.It substitutes our principle reality. Since the first moment that we enter into the world our eyes consume reality arbitrated by the unreality/hyper -reality of the media. While the media represent the (Hi)story of our everyday life, we became encoded into the history of the community through the repetition of the time. Watching our life going on ithrough the reality of TV.

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8 minutes, UK (2003)
language: English
Docufilms@graffiti.net

This is a shot film on the anti-war movement in the UK. The movement started developing before the bombing of Afghanistan and grew to be the biggest ever peace movement in the UK. Between 1.5 and 2 million people marched in London on February 15, 2003 for peace and against the imminent attack on Iraq. This was the biggest ever peace march in the UK. What is also unprecedented about this movement is that it developed before a war had even started. The film features an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky and is constructed as a music video. It aims at giving a flavor of the time and a feeling of the spirit that moved a mass of determined pacifists in the UK.

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30 minutes, USA (2003)
language: English
Indymedia Newsreal, affinity group of Global Independent Media Center

Part of an inter-continental activist video news experiment, Indymedia Newsreal presents 5 minute news segments from across North America. In July: It's an occupation not a liberation, by Dawn Zuppelli, documenting the street takover (CD action) in Rochester when the war against Iraq began; Tax Day Protest, by Tony Shawcross/ denverevolution.org, documenting America's resisting use of tax dollars for war; War on the Workers, a music video performed by Anne Feeney (who originally wrote the rather famous song "Have you been to jail for justice?"); Can't survive on 6.75 by George Elfie Ballis/SunMt about home care workers organizing to raise their wages; and Goodnight, Liberation by Oriana Bolden, a personal struggle for health care in the U.S.

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4 minutes, USA (2003)
http://www.rpi.edu/~lanesa

Getting Off is a single channel video exploring the removal in stages of a protective shield. It acts as a subversive hymen metaphor of seduction and oppression. The duration is four minutes.

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