The reality of this scam resists representation, which is why we are unsuccessful in our attempts to align words and images with the original meaning of things.
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The markets of Fez, accessible from the main streets of the medina, are mostly situated very near the entrances to the city and reflect the vitality of an economic microsystem associated with the basic needs of the medina and its immediate rural surroundings.
Memory of the Land, is a reflection of the human condition under the yoke of different forms of violence, collective memory and identity as forms of resilience. Palestine. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, which is aggressive and arbitrary and prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.
At the beginning of the eighties a new road reached the most remote villages of Soraland, in the Ganjam District of Orissa. From then on, the Lanjia Sora, a tribe with their own special conception of illness, life and death, got in touch with the people from the plains and fell under the influence of the missionary activities of several Christian groups. This culture clash meant a structural change among the Lanjia Sora tribal society. Around 90% of the young people have currently converted to Christianity (Catholic, Baptist and Pentecostal) and they have completely abandoned the old rites and traditions.
UntitledIn Memorias, norias y fábricas de lejía, images portraying happiness – the only images that home movies allow – clash with a voiceover recounting stories of the migration of agricultural workers from rural Andalusia to industrial centers in Catalonia. A film-essay on migration, memory and the impossibility of accessing self-representation.
Untitled2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
This documentary was filmed in Beirut under Syrian occupation in the year 2000 with few resources, a camera and the idea of creating a documentary about Beirut with touches of fiction, connecting it to two myths from western culture, Romeo and Juliet, and Salome, inspired by the east. This explains the fragments of Shakespearean texts in the video. I had the backdrop -Beirut, its streets and neighborhoods-, the actors -the people of Beirut-, and I had the car -“le service” (one of those old taxi-cars that really are actors in the “asphalt cinema”, and that immediately reveal the identity of their owners through the amulets tied to the rear vision mirror, such as rosaries, pictures of saints or photos of Assad). This is why the documentary has a road-movie feel.
Cuban Revolution has used since the beginning posters and billboards to transmit to people its political and social ideology: a way of visual comunication that has lasted to nowadays. This film was produced in 2006 and was conceived as a “work in progress”. With each billboard, a postcard of Cuban daily life is shown. We have registered their geographical coordinates so that in the future we can go back to shoot again and show, from the same locations, the evolution of Cuban History.