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.

An Archives research and edit on several audiovisual documents from various sources dealing with the old Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea, most of it created for information and educational purposes. Images that illustrate the colonial obsessions of the times: the idyllic image of Spain's civilizing task, nostalgia for imperial times, the sadistic element in the hunt for wild animals, the work of Christianisation, the militarization of a layer of the population in order to ensure the existence of “loyal natives”, the perpetuation of the African stereotype...    

Journeys and dreams in the mountains of Mexico's south east, the jungle and the city... Rituals, emotions and words for everyone!

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.

Map compilation: The Palestine-Israel area. The Ottoman Empire. Ottoman provinces in the Middle East. Jewish and Arabic towns in Palestine under the Ottoman Empire. The Middle East divided up between France and Great Britain. The Palestine – Transjordan division. The UN partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. A Map of the main aquifers in the area. Jewish and Arab towns in Palestine before the partition decreed by the UN. The creation of the State of Israel. Maps of the area after successive wars and crises. The Israeli control matrix of the territory. Map of Greater Jerusalem reclaimed by the state of Israel. Those under Palestine autonomy acknowledged by Israel. Annexations by the wall.  

A compilation of Columbian film heritage material relating to indigenous communities. Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano.Colección Acevedo (1932 -1948) , Marco Tulio Lizarazo (Guerrillero Guadalupe Salcedo, 1953).

The unfulfilled promise of the Agrarian Reform in Brazil. On weighing up three years of managing the country, Agrarian Reform is still one of the unfulfilled promises of the Lula government in Brazil. Lula's rise to power raised the hopes of the social movements that want to democratise the land and the occupation of large unproductive landholdings increased, but so did the violence of the paramilitary commandos that defend the interests of the landowners, with the collusion of the local legal authorities. Seventy three people died in rural conflicts in 2003, murdered by gunmen who act with impunity.

In Benyounes forest, “la foret” as they called their habitants, was the last stage of a long trip for thousands of people coming from Sub-Saharan Africa. Close to the fence that divides Ceuta (Spain) from Morocco, they establish in a variable time, before flank the last obstacle in they way to Europe, looking for a better life. Sometimes running away from wars, politics persecutions, hunger or a precarious economy situation. Lots of times of all of this. In years, the migrants pass across this forest and after some weeks or months they manage to arrive to Ceuta. In finals of 2004, European union start agreements of subcontract Morocco in the control of the Spanish – Moroccan border. The habitants of the forest, started to feel the effects of this agreements: the increase of illegal devolutions, the abuses from the civil police, they install police controls near the forest, they forbid the access to current water, military attacks to the camps in with they made mass arrests and rapes as a war weapon. The border it's close. Systematic violation of human rights, financed with the tax of the democratic European Union citizens. The migrants organize themselves in spaces like this and construct spaces; support nets in Moroccan territory, confronting and resisting this way the European politics. In the forest of Benyounes, they organized themselves from origin communities. In February of 2005, decided between all the community's, record this video, to made visible their situation, in with they report the systematic violation of their human rights, the absolutely abandonment from the NGO's, Associations an Human Rights Institutions, an they demand their citizens condition and they require their rights as human beings.