1991 is a key date in the construction of the global empire. At the start of the first Gulf war, George Bush "the father", paraphrasing a soldier, declared: "I don't think we're in this war over the price of a barrel of oil, we're here to define the future of the world for the next 100 years".
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UntitledFULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR: Based On A Training Aid Developed For The U.S. Army*, is a squad-based real-time combat game that allows players to experience the intensity and gritty realism of urban combat warfare. As Squad Leader, take command and coordinate the actions of two infantry squads (Alpha and Bravo) leading them through a hostile urban warzone. KUMA WAR missions allow subscribers to experience first-hand some of the toughest fighting in the global war on terror because each mission is based on real-world events. Missions are developed and delivered to your computer with unprecedented speed so you can experience these critical current events soon after they happen. ICT. Part of the University of Southern California, the Institute for Creative Technologies is an award-winning research center that advances the state-of-the-art in virtual reality and immersive environments. The goal of the ICT is the creation of the Experience Learning System (ELS), which provides the ability to learn through active, as opposed to passive, systems. ICT will create the ELS by harnessing creative talent from the entertainment and game development industries and leading edge research on simulation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Graphics and Sound. In addition, specific military training tasks (Future Combat Systems).But FCS is not just about platforms. It is also about command, information, logistics and fires networks, distributed sensors, and unmanned vehicles both aerial and terrestrial, all working together to make the future American soldier persuasive in peace and invincible in war.
UntitledThis 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.
UntitledEl 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.
UntitledWhat is daily life like in Iraq? Do you think they have more rights now than they did under the yoke of Saddam? How do they deal with the growing insecurity that has seized this Arabic country? For the first time since operation ?Enduring Freedom?, a journalist spends several weeks living with families in Baghdad, in order to report on their day to day lives. And he does it by following the steps of Mazi Hermes (Nqwa, 1961), an Iraqi living in Barcelona who returns home after spending thirteen years in Spain.
UntitledThese videos deal with some of the most visible issues in contemporary societies. Racial mix, violence, marginalisation, culture clashes...as manifestations of the idea of the Border (territorial, social political, psychological). Issues that could be summed up in the profound feeling of loneliness that saturates these works. Juan Bautista Peiro.
UntitledThis video was edited as a result of the Captura Raval Workshop (OVNI - TEB - CCCB) "I don't think politicians have read any history at all, modern or ancient. Situations repeat themselves, and no matter how many guns they have, it will all be repeated again, because it will be necessasry. Watch out world leaders, murderers like Mr Bush...this is a Barcelona you can?t see one that hides?".
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