Open Cultures. Free Flows of Information and the Politics of Commons

10 minutes, Austria (2003)
language: English subtitles: English
Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0

Documentation of Dark Markets: a two day conference with an exhibition, workshops & presentations, staged in Vienna by the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0

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7 minutes, Austria/Serbia (2003)
language: English subtitles: English
Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0

Documentation of World-Information.Org @ Amsterdam: Exhibition, Conference, Events & Presentations exhibited under the patronage of the UNESCO by the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 in cooperation with kuda.org - Center for New Media and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

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6 minutes, The Netherlands (2003)
language: Dutch
CultureMoves

At February 15th 2003 there was a big party in Paradiso for Peace. Two filmmakers and a famous Dutch rap artist give their views on war and media.

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6 minutes, The Netherlands (2003)
language: Dutch
CultureMoves

Arabic people who marched at the big peace demonstration in Amsterdam, March 22nd 2003, were asked about Al Jazeera, media and truth.

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6 minutes, The Netherlands (2003)
language: Dutch
CultureMoves

Bush and Saddam both make use of strategic language to convince people of their right. Inhabitants of an Arabic region in utrecht were asked their opinion about that.

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32 minutes, the Nederlands / Hong Kong (2002)
language: Dutch, Chinese and English subtitles: English
AUTO-FILM

CHUNGKING HOUSE, de Luxe Hotel. Chungking House, Hotel de luxe. As Leonard Cohen sang to one of his girlfriends In New York: ‘I remember you well, from the Chelsea Hotel.’ Films and books have long been dedicated to the inhabitants of this and other hotels, which captured our imagination. Now for the first time, Chungking Mansion, a building complex of stores, restaurants and lodging for nearly 4000 people, joins them on film. Ivanka Bakker spent three weeks there, looking for the stories of the residents, mostly criminals, prostitutes and underground characters. She wasn’t given permission to film, and residents were reluctant to give up their anonymity. ‘In this building [...] you cannot trust’, says Alice, the woman from whom Bakker rents her room. And yet a bond develops between the two women. Alice gradually reveals her story; hard work, an unhappy marriage. With its narrow corridors and stairwells, and windowless rooms, this complex defies all humanity. Its tiled walls are reminiscent of an imposing institution. Even the filmmaker enters into its anonymity. The sole, and misleading, window to the outside world is the television, and its commercials: ‘Think of a city that is progressive, free, stable, where opportunity abounds and quality is premium. A community that is innovative, cosmopolitan, enterprising and well-connected. This is Hong Kong, Asia’s world city!’

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7 minutes, Norway (2002)
language: Norwegian subtitles: Norwegian
TAPIO

Sissyfight is a collaboration and a social experiment involving six female artists. By the use of a homemade solution of "wearcam", six woman fight against each other with a paintballgun in the forest. The project was documented by every person involved, giving a personal view from each of the artists.The project gives a picture of possible female combat structure and also a visual reference to the aesthetics of computergames.

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54 minutes, Austria/Italy (2002)
language: Italian subtitles: English
Oliver Ressler (in cooperation with Dario Azzellini)

The video ”Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement. The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The ”Tute Bianche” were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies – protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields – in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. At the G8 summit in Genoa the Tute Bianche decided to take off their trademark white overalls that had given them their name and instead blend in the multitude of 300,000 demonstration participants. The transition from the Tute Bianche to the Disobbedienti, the disobedients, also marked a development from ”civil disobedience” to ”social disobedience.”

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44 minutes, Belgium (2002)
language: French /English/ Dutch subtitles: French
vox (video organization for x)

"Façadisme" is a typical word from Brussels, the town where the EU institutions are trying to build a "European Capital". But Brussels is only an administrative capital for Europe. The way the buildings of the EU institutions are conceived is a mirror for the political construction of Europe: cold and crushing architecture, with no place for real life… even in decisions concerning the city itself, democracy is an illusion: in fact, the citizens are not included. The video explains a complicated story: how a false "international congress center" built in 1987 by some belgian banks with the secret help of the State, became the seat of the European Parliament. How this Institution which is supposed to be "the voice of the citizens" manages its relationship with their neighbours in Brussels. And how today, with the enlargement of the EU, two new extensions of the colossal fortress will be built in a post-september 11th obsession with security

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3 minutes, Germany (2002)
language: German / English subtitles: English

A collage of quotations – image and sound - from the film 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day' by James Cameron (1991), mixed with sentences out of the 4 gospels of the New Testament, spoken by a female voice. Thyes takes scenes from the film where Christian moral cliche’s and myths of the saviour are shown, combines them with texts out of the bible, and interrupts them with product placements, shown in the same film. The "saviours" – Terminator Schwarzenegger and the boy – and the visionary "Madonna" - Sarah, mother of the boy – convert the black scientist to destroy his work and to sacrifice himself: a typically Christian story of colonisation.

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4 minutes, Spain (2002)
language: No dialogues, texts in spanish

"In a world which really is reversed the true is a moment of the false." (Guy Debord, The society of the spectacle, 1967). Subvertising, propaganda, post-media or meta-media, cut, copy & paste, retro, f@$hion, neo-situationism... Several quotes of the contemporary nihilism on a moving manifesto that subverts the language of the broadcast design and advertising.

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18 minutes, USA (2002)
language: English
Paula J. Caplan and Peter Standish Productions

The friendship between two men on Death Row develops as Cleveland helps Bradley learn to read, using the Bible. Bradley is to be tested because if he is mentally retarded, state law forbids his execution. Conflict and tragedy ensue when Bradley’s lifelong humiliation for “stupidity” and his mother’s lifelong urging of him to try his best clash with Cleveland’s desperate attempt to make Bradley grasp the need to fail and thus to live. Based on a true story.

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7 minutes, Belgium (2002)
language: French, Dutch subtitles: English

The film follows a group of women through the night while they undertake actions against the sexist advertisings. The film focuses on transmitting the energy that these women can develop: physical, creative or sensual

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2 minutes, Macedonia (2002)
language: English subtitles: English
Macedonian Television

How do young people feel in the middle of the war? Should we stay in our own country or be refugees elsewhere? What to choose?

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53 minutes, Netherlands (2002)
language: Dutch subtitles: English
IP-productions

Hippies From Hell is a group of hackers, techies, artists, writers and puzzlers. In the eighties they published hacker magazine Hacktic and in 1993 they started the first Dutch Internet-provider, xs4all, thus opening the Internet for the general public. Apart from this they throw wild parties and organize open-air hacker festivals, using the Internet as their social platform. On their mailing list they discuss almost every aspect of our technology infested society. The Dutch hackers, as the hippies were called initially, are a special group within the international hacker movement that they helped create for a large part. In the film artists play with hardware, young Hippies hack their school-calculators, lock pickers open locks without a key: hacking is not just fooling around with technology, it is an attitude, an activity, a verb.

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