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This video of a migrant sit-in in a Barcelona church is part of a long-term project about the struggles of legal and illegal migrants. This segment describes the sit-in on a night in June 2004 as experienced inside the Iglesia del Pí, documenting the assemblies held by the migrants under pressure of the government, major trade unions and the police, followed by the declarations made through the press.
UntitledBetween 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.
UntitledIbrahim, 24 years old, lives together with his family and friends trapped in a ghetto and under Israeli military occupation. The ghetto is known as Qalquilia. In reality, it is a city completely surrounded by a 9 meters concrete wall and a several kilometre-long wire fence where 40,000 Palestinians who are posed as a “security threat” by Israel are caged. Hassan lives also trapped in the cage. Qalquilia is the first caged city since the ghetto in Warsaw. A sad truth that the victim learns some of the worst practices from his killers...
Beyond the Western discourse on Japan "The Great Pachinko" is a portrait of twenty young Japanese. Uninhibited talk about their emotions, their problems, love and culture. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
"Those who are on the road of the heart show their wounds...". Farid Ud-Din Attar. S.XI. Persia. Cd rom_interactive. Zayd Ibn Dawra 2000 Marrakesh. Collaborations: Zoubida el Bouzidi. IDEP.
The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces
El Perro Negro - Stories from the Spanish Civil War is a poetic collage of homemade movies, captured almost involuntary by amateur artists. Joan Salvans i Piera and Joan Ernesto Díaz Noriega are the two characters of this story: Ernesto, a middle class student in Madrid, who survives war; and Joan, a Catalan industrialist who is murdered six days after the outbreak of the conflict. Their films lead us through the Spain of the 30s and 40s.
UntitledA succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.
UntitledA workshop in which eleven women from Nablus used a camera for the first time and were able to make their own films. This documentary shows a slice of life today in the city of Nablus.