Abubakar is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr - ritual dances performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. At each Zikr he reaches a state of ecstasy. For Abubakar it is an exorcism, a form of liberation from everything that his people have suffered over so many years of occupation. It is an act of resistance where they reunite with their dead. An encounter with the Real.
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Various activist documentaries reporting on and responding to an extreme situation. The 'legal' sacking of a country.
Lance Henson, a Cheyenne poet who lives in Italy, returns to the US every year for poetry readings and to renew links with his tribe. This year he travels by car through native territories, where Peyote medicine heals and helps people to conduce their lives. He travels from the Cheyenne reservation at Concho, Oklahoma to the Conchos river in the Tarahumara Hills in Mexico. Lance writes a journey diary during the trip which includes Peyote Songs and poems.
Crying against your will. Being unable to cry when you need to. Faraway images, a sordid fight, total senselessness. 1976. A military dictatorship takes over Argentina, bringing with it state terrorism. I was 5 years old. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
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UntitledThe 'Cartoneros', an army of the shadows - more than 100,000 strong -who assemble each night to scavenge the city's street and rubbish dumps for cardboard to sell for a pittance. These people commute to their place of work like foraging animals, herding themselves onto the 'White Train' which rattles through the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the battered shells of carriages devoid of doors, windows, seating or lights.
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Every Saturday, members of a group called Falun Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd street in New York City to protest and meditate. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They stayed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resilience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: we admire the strength of conviction while being tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But here the struggle against nature has taken over the political struggle. Available online until December 27th 2020.
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