An aerial journey over an unspecified major western city. We see a large television screen that projects advertising images within public space, a heavily urbanized architecture, an occupied coast. At the same time, voices evoke meetings, failed or still to come, cinema as utopia and “the world as the will to represent”.

This video is part of the project El Paraíso es de los extraños and proposes a non-linear journey, rehearsing a type of polycentric, rhizomatic narrative, with the intention of proposing a critical and ironic reading of the topics of orientalist exoticism fiction, through of the apparently chaotic scheme of the arabesque, a decorative formula that is not alien to the spider web or the labyrinth. Not the invisible, transparent, open-air labyrinth that pride and ignorance build.

Mindanao, the easternmost island in the Philippine archipelago, is home to the majority of the country's Muslims, as well as indigenous Lumad tribes and Christian settlers. There is an ongoing Islamist armed guerrilla war on the the island, sparked by the history of discrimination and marginalisation of its inhabitants. Over the last forty years, this war has claimed more than 150,000 lives and displaced 750,000 people. But what is behind the conflict? What are the main parties involved' What is being done to achieve peace? It is time to listen to the Voices of Mindanao.

The secrets behind Dr. Linus Tyler's psychoactive baking. The alcohol industry wants to buy the formula for Vip, a new product that threatens to reduce its massive profits. Dr Linus Taylor not only refuses, he gives up the opportunity to market it himself and goes public with the formula.