"Scandinavian Soul ®" leads us to a small device (memorize recording machine) in which there are stored memories of a hero seized by nostalgia. Memories that follow that fragile line between the lived and the imagined, between reality and fiction, even at times blurred. Everything under ambiguous tone that leaves nothing clear enough for us to hang on.
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Video made from a conversation recorded in the 70 in Mumbai (India) .. between a traveler and Nisarghadata Indian philosopher, author of "I am That", one of the most recent and important examples of Advaita Vedanta. Satsanga is a Sanskrit word, which means: (Sat = truth, reality, Sanga = company) describes in Indian philosophy: 1. in the company of truth. 2. company in reality 3. accompanied by an assembly of persons who listen, speak and assimilate reality. This practice also takes the form of hearing or reading scriptures, reflections, discussions and assimilating their meaning, meditating on the source of these words.
"There should be more cultural programs on television, more westerns and cartoons for children." A cool little trip with Cheles and his friends to the neighborhood of San Roque, in San Adrià del Besós, Barcelona. 1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993.
The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.
UntitledSix years after being bombed by NATO forces, Belgrade city still keeps some of the buildings as they were left by the bombs. Inside one of them, the same group of women that once use to clean and maintain it now gather together, acting and working again as if time had never moved.
Untitled–Want to know how to steal half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks to fund social causes? Robin Bank – the story of the man who did this and how.
UntitledEthnographic documentation of the possession rituals of Mina, the religion of African origin practiced in the city of Sâo Luis. Through fragments of public rituals celebrated in seven religious communities, the video shows the diversity and richness of rituals surrounding the controversial phenomenon of possession. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993.
In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still contact the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans' oral literature, myths and legends, and the traditional knowledge and uses of plants. In Return to the Land of Souls, Yéo Douley, a disciple of Jean Marie Addiaffi, sets out on a journey to visit his master's grave and carry out a ritual libation. On his travels, he attends the initiation rites of three people chosen by the spirits and witnesses one of them proclaimed as the new Komian, or high animistic priest.
UntitledA TV advertisement for Campofrío (a processed food brand) that parodies a fictional vegetarian family in order to sell its “Finísimas” processed meat product. Action carried out by the Animal Equality group in response to this ad. “We decided to show audiences what goes on behind-the-scenes at farms, to show the life of slavery that animals are subjected to. To respond to a fictitious advertising campaign with an investigation into one of the farms owned by the company. On July 4 and 12, 2008, activists from the Animal Equality entered a farm located in Burgos that provides to Campofrío in order to document what goes on there and bring it to light”.
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